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When environmentalists busted up dams, coal moved in
Study says carbon emissions up 1,400 tons for every thwarted megawatt of hydropower.
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Harvey’s record rains triggered Houston dams to overflow
The city's aging flood reservoirs have been pushed to the limit twice in two years.
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Canada’s Trudeau promises to do no harm to First Nations, does harm anyway
His government issues permits for a dam that will permanently alter a way of life.
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Critical List: 2011 was pretty darn warm; dams could exacerbate climate change
2011 will be the tenth or eleventh warmest year on record, depending on who you ask. All but one of the nine or ten warmer years were in the last decade. (The only exception is 1998.) The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs is required to approve renewable energy projects on Native American-owned […]
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Laugh at the crying Indian all you want — the joke’s on us
Remember the crying Indian in the 1970s TV commercial? Well, he's back, and this time, he's not sad -- he's pissed.
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Destroying dams could save a salmon species
Twenty years and $350 million after President George H.W. Bush first signed an act to restore Washington State's Elwha River, the process to bring down two gigantic dams has begun. That could save the Elwha’s population of salmon.
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Critical List: China makes solar power cheap; U.K. fishing fleet wastes cod
China is making solar power cheap in order to drive solar growth.
Since 1963, U.K. fishing boats have tossed $1 billion worth of dead or dying cod overboard to keep within their quotas.
In Washington State, what The New York Times calls "the largest dam removal project in American history" will destroy two dams and help salmon regrow their population. -
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Don't dam Atlantic fisheries to extinction
Removing abandoned river dams across the Northeast will revive Atlantic fisheries, boost East Coast economies, and help bring the ocean back to life.
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Renewable v. Renewable: Oregon wind and hydro fight over grid space
The Northwest coast right now has a problem most places in the country could only wish for: too much renewable energy. And while hippies would like us to believe that clean energy sources will work flawlessly in harmony to edge out coal and oil, this abundance is pitting wind producers and hydroelectric producers against each other.
Alongside the Columbia River, in Oregon, wind power is becoming a big player, working in concert with dams on the river to produce renewable energy. But right now the Bonneville Power Authority, which controls the dams, is ordering wind farms to generate less power, saying it needs more space than usual on the grid to handle the power the dams are producing.
Wind farms are, understandably, peeved.
