Posted on 02/28/2024 4:26:19 PM PST by CFW
California Gov. Gavin Newsom backed the controversial proposal to remove four Klamath River hydroelectric dams along the California-Oregon border. Now, the same fish he swore to protect could be killed in the process.
The dams had been breached on claims that it would help salmon migrate, but the Klamath River is now full of destroyed spawning salmon beds and pollution including decomposed algae, organic deposition, chemicals, and fine silt which is killing its ecosystem, according to a report from the California Globe.
Additionally, dead endangered steelhead trout and other species have been rising to the surface of the Klamath River, and the river's conditions have made it unlikely for any juvenile salmon to survive.
Environmental organizations and tribal groups had been putting increasing pressure on Gov. Newsom to act to "save the salmon." Newsom caved to the pressure and devised a plan to tear down the dams that keep salmon from migrating back to streams to lay eggs. Activists blame the four dams as a cause of drastic declines in the fish population, specifically salmon that travel upstream to rivers to spawn.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project in Nov. 2022, which is considered to be the largest dam removal in the nation's history.
The removal of the dams is meant to prevent mass die-offs of salmon by allowing the free flow of water downriver, which is meant to rid natural parasites in the river's ecosystem that are reportedly killing juvenile salmon, as reported by the Independent. The removal's proponents believe that by restoring hundreds of miles of potential habitat that have been closed for more than a century due to the dams, its removal will also help to recover declining salmon populations.
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Is this like when they dont prosecute crime to solve crime?
Another fine mess he’s gotten us into!
To paraphrase the libtard mentality ‘We have to destroy the environment in order to save it.’
These flippin idiots couldn’t be trusted to put in a light bulb, even an LED one.
All they are good at, really good at, is screwing up the world around them. Then they sit there answering for the damage and deflecting blame with that stupid look of bewilderment in their eyes. That look that says... Its the republicans! They hate the environment!
And how much lost power and water storage did California throw away?
Will we hear them crying during a summer heat wave or the next drought?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zh_2BUEan8
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poor tribes got conned by eco natzis and the removal of the klamath river dams have silted over the spawning beds and killed their fish runs and soon they will have to suffer and deal with the flooding, loss of life and property the dams and reservoirs used to protect. thanks gavin. i can see him grining from here.
And Gavin Nobrain wants to be President so all of us can enjoy the same kind of successes he has brought to California.
As I recall, the primary purpose of the dams was to control flooding during heavy rains. That region was notorious for periodic deadly floods. And so it will be again.
When they told him about the foul up Newsom said:
“It’s just one dam thing after another.”
The President of the CCPCa, elected by Morons Anonymous.
I heard fishing is considered a racist sport.
“hydroelectric dams”
In the meantime California is buying electricity from other states like the one I’m in, Washington. So I am guessing that electricity is the new water. Water problem got old. Need something new.
wy69
“hydroelectric dams”
In the meantime California is buying electricity from other states like the one I’m in, Washington. So I am guessing that electricity is the new water. Water problem got old. Need something new.
wy69
....and, of course, we have less energy. Newsom is an arrogant fool.
“ poor tribes got conned by eco natzis”
They’ll do anything for a case of firewater
They’ll do anything for a case of firewater
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esad
youre talking about people i care for.
fellow americans.
plus, im 3/8 indian.
A friend on the river said it wasn’t running brown.
It’s running black. The fish are toast.
This dam was created in the 1920’s. After all this time, the fish need their stream back, and the “indigenous” people need it back as well? What a complete pant-load of leftist white-guilt. Pathetic.
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