Posted on 11/17/2022 8:49:34 AM PST by dennisw
“Some people might ask in this time of great need for zero emissions, ‘Why are we removing the dams?’ First, we have to understand this doesn’t happen every day … a lot of these projects were licensed a number of years back when there wasn’t as much focus on environmental issues,” said FERC Chairman Richard Glick. “Some of these projects have a significant impact on the environment and fish.”
US regulators approved a major milestone Thursday in a plan to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission vote on the lower Klamath River dams is the last major regulatory hurdle and the biggest milestone for a $500 million demolition proposal championed by Native American tribes and environmentalists for years.
The project would return the lower half of California’s second-largest river to a free-flowing state for the first time in more than a century.
Native tribes that rely on the Klamath River and its salmon for their way of life have been a driving force behind bringing the dams down.
Commissioners called the decision “momentous” and “historic” and spoke of the importance of taking the action during National Native American Heritage Month because of its importance to restoring salmon and reviving the river that is at the heart of the culture of several tribes in the region.
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Some nice clean hydroelectric that has been there for decades. Get taken out to make some Indian tribe fishermen and eco-wackos happy. I curse them both.
Insanity.
Get rid of those dams! They were built by white supremacists!
Regulators clear path for largest dam demolition in history (Oregon)
Yes give it back to the animals and make hiking trails make it useful.
What, like solar arrays and wind power on birds?
Not having enough electricity for humans and the desired move to electric vehicles?
Farms without water?
“Native tribes that rely on the Klamath River and its salmon for their way of life have been a driving force behind bringing the dams down.”
What have they been eating since the dams were built? Would they rather have inexpensive electricity or salmon? I guess we’ll just have to build more of those butt ugly windmills.
I’m sure they have a detailed report on the carbon footprint this entails.
“Several tribes in the region, including the Yurok, have been fighting for years to see the dams come down to aid the recovery of struggling salmon populations.”
If the indians did not remove more fish than they could use, and if they used the original methods of catching fish, there would not be a lack of fish.
“Subsistence” hunting and fishing is a scam.
Whinging on about salmon is crappola. Much cheaper to build fish ladders.
IMHO - all green insanity and woke social-engineering is funded by our printed, fiat, debt-based currency and manipulated interest rates, courtesy of the Federal Reserve
If the indians did not remove more fish than they could use, and if they used the original methods of catching fish, there would not be a lack of fish.
“Subsistence” hunting and fishing is a scam.________________________
Don’t the salmon fishing tribes buy large boats and start making mega profits on salmon harvesting? These greedy turds don’t even have to pilot these fishing boats. They hire Mexicans do all the hard work. Indians can sit on their butts and get high and get drunk.
Potatoes are grown in that region. Say goodbye to them.
Make the injuns return any casinos.
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How about the 100s of thousands of acres of AG land that needs that water? I guess we can all starve so the natives can fish.
If only stupid really did BURN!
And hello to Stone Age 2.0.
They lost a war. Sucks to be them in any other country but this one.
F THEM
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