The power company that owns four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River says the dams provide a crucial source of so-called clean energy at a time when carbon emissions have become one of the world’s foremost environmental concerns.
But the American Indians, fishermen and environmentalists who want the dams removed point to what has happened since the first one was built nearly 90 years ago: endangered salmon have been blocked from migrating, Indian livelihoods have been threatened, and, more recently, the commercial fishing industry off the Oregon and California coasts has been devastated. They say the dams are anything but clean. They say the river is a mess.
- NY Times (read full story here)
No matter what energy source is used, someone has an objection to it.
2 comments:
It's not the dams killing the salmon, it is the seals. Allow some seal hunting instead.
Dams interfere with the rivers.
Windmills interfere with the air.
Nuclear energy has waste.
Coal plants have emissions.
Pick any form of energy and there will be objections to it.
But I am in favor of the seal hunting.
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