Posted on 08/15/2025 5:37:39 AM PDT by cuz1961
...NORTHCOAST, Calif. — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is set to commence the removal of the Eel River Dam...
....the long run because it wasn't providing power economically...
(Excerpt) Read more at krcrtv.com ...
WTH does that mean ?
Last I heard, water fell free of charge.
It's plain to see pge has been infiltrated by Communists and dances the cooperative litigation tango the environmentalists concocted to kill the timber industry decades ago.
Hopefully the Trump admin will not grant approval to further degrade our electrical generation and grid.
I wish we could take out all the dams but unfortunately, my stuff wont run on unicorn farts.
The Sierra Club masters do not like water control or civilization.
“...will benefit customers in the long run because it wasn’t providing power economically.”...
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What ?
Did pge calculate maintenance costs and employee costs for the powerhouse’s operator for the long run of 1000 years ?
Will this action lower, OR RAISE the cost of power for citizens ?
We all know it will raise what we pay for power.
And rain water isn’t an expense like coal or natural gas or oil or windmill maintenance or fissionable material , and rain water is free.
Liars or morons or communist deindustrialists or all the above.
Dams and generating equipment require constant maintenance.
I guess those costs outran the energy produced.
Won’t need it with the renewables mandate.
No. This is just another phony left-wing envirowacko excuse to degrade California’s economic viability.
The action is supposedly for the benefit of salmon and steelhead, long a lever for the crooked "environmental" left. The silt release will be nasty, destroying the fishery for a very long time.
This is more about the diversion to the Russian River Valley, which depends upon Lake Pillsbury for summer water. They'll be putting farmers out of business, pushing out owners of summer cabins and recreation businesses, and making small towns more dependent upon the State-controlled grid as powered by natural gas for which the locals get to pay a premium for the use of carbon, which surrounds them to the point of catastrophe. Of course, the Bohemian Grove will remain as an elite playground.
I’m with you, Dams have to be one of the cheapest form of generation of electricity! WTF is going on in California? EV’s by 2035 but no electricity! Guess we all will live in 15 minute cities!
Anyone who doesn’t think the DESTRUCTION of our electric grid is INTENTIONAL really needs to better understand Leftists and then try to convince themselves that shutting down nukes, shutting down hydroelectric, shutting down coal, shutting down drilling, preventing pipelines from being built is all just a ‘coincidence’, even though, literally, EVERYTHING they do is in ONE DIRECTION - which is to destroy what has worked for over 100 years and made us prosperous.
Nothing drives me up the wall more than comments like “The Democrats are so dumb, don’t they understand...”, because that shows the idiocy is on our side, as many on our side simply CANNOT bring themselves to understand that Democrats are EVIL PEOPLE and very, very SMART people, considering what they’re doing and how far they’ve already come in destroying this country (and Europe), and that ANYTHING we can do to slow them down, stop them, or hopefully reverse them, is better than doing nothing, such as letting them win elections over RINOs.
It’s not a case of infiltration. The once great PG&E is regulated to the extent that it is just a nominally private arm of the state government
“Decommissioning this project will benefit customers in the long run because it wasn’t providing power economically.”
To use a cliche, that “strains credulity.”
Just my opinion but I think Hydro-electric power is the least costly and most efficient means of power generation.
Water + turbines = electricity!
Another cliche-”If it ain’t broke...”
What happens when there is rainfall upstream and no dam to keep flooding from happening downstream without a dam?
“The Sierra Club masters do not like water control or civilization.”
Their board just fired their director whose name was .... Ben Jealous. “The Sierra Club declined to offer details about the events that led to his removal.” He done something bad.
“What happens when there is rainfall upstream and no dam to keep flooding from happening downstream without a dam?”
It won’t bother the deeply concerned environmentalists in their San Fran high rises at all.
Nothing in California provides power economically. Not wind, not solar, not importation of power from other regions, and now not hydroelectric dams. No consideration of natural gas, nuclear, petroleum or clean coal technology even under review.
Artificial scarcity of any commodity is a brutal form of rationing.
What happened in all those centuries it wasn't there?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Arturo Fuente Hemingway is my preference.
See the devasting Eel River floods of 1964.
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