Feds to shut down four energy producing dams

The structures are the four southernmost dams in a string of six constructed in southern Oregon and far northern California producing hydroelectric energy and built in 1918. We are apparently so flush in energy that no concern is being given for additional energy resources for replacement. Especially California. We can just import more energy from Russia…or more windmills.

The environmentalist jihad won’t stop on the Klamath River:

The project on California’s second-largest river would be at the vanguard of a push to demolish dams in the U.S. as the structures age and become less economically viable and as concerns grow about their environmental impact, particularly on fish.  AP

CBS Local:

Now, plans to demolish four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath’s lower reaches — the largest such demolition project in U.S. history — have placed those competing interests in stark relief. Tribes, farmers, homeowners and conservationists all have a stake in the dams’ fate.

“We are saving salmon country, and we’re doing it through reclaiming the West,” said Amy Cordalis, a Yurok tribal attorney fighting for dam removal.

The project, estimated at nearly $450 million, would reshape the Klamath River and empty giant reservoirs, and could revive plummeting salmon populations by reopening habitat that has been blocked for more than a century. One of the dams is pictured below:

Photo courtesy of Michael Wier

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They were built for power generation.

Jul 31, 2021

This is no surprise. What is the latest from Pete regarding energy?

Asked about expanding U.S. energy production to lower gas prices, Pete Buttigieg says Biden supports “efforts to increase global oil production.” “We are in the middle of a long-term transformation”

But of course there is no concern about the Lithium Battery or what energy is going to supply the so called charging stations. We know that drill.

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