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Hydroelectric Dams in OR Kill Salmon. Congress Says It's Time to Shut Them Down

• codingdave 2y ago
  If the title can be edited, I'd capitalize OR, to try to make it more clear that we are talking about Oregon.
• bell-cot 2y ago
  > And the power industry says that running hydropower turbines on the Willamette dams, unlike the moneymaking hydroelectric dams on the larger Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest, doesn’t make financial sense. Vs. it sounds like the Army Corps of Engineers - which controls the dams - is pushing hard for scenarios which maximizes their own budget and headcount. (Maybe the local Native Americans and nature lovers are secretly using a "brand them as perpetually-money-losing government boondoggles" anti-dam strategy - but I see no hint of that in the article. Instead, they seem more like local color quotes, with no interest in getting a seat at the table.)
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• gmuslera 2y ago
  Keeping dependant on fossil carbon energy sources will kill salmons (and most of everything else) more effectively than a few dams.