Plan to demolish Klamath dams in California
to save salmon gets boost from federal regulators
Washington Times,
by
Brad Matthews
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/28/2022 1:50:00 PM
A plan to save migratory salmon by demolishing four hydroelectric dams on California’s Klamath River got backing from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Friday. FERC released the final version of the environmental impact statement evaluating the dam demolition plan. FERC commissioners will vote on whether or not to implement the plan later this year. The dam’s operators filed an application to surrender the Lower Klamath Hydroelectric Project on Nov. 17, 2020. The project rests on 400 acres of federal land in Oregon and California, and consists of the Copco 1, Copco 2, Iron Gate, and J.C. Boyle Dams.(Snip)These dams were originally licensed by FERC in 1954; new guidelines suggested
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 8/28/2022 1:54:03 PM (No. 1261664)
Oh Boy!! Less electricity! Horse-drawn wagons and candlelight, here we come!
AOC will be so happy! After all, SHE doesn't live on the West Coast......
40 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 8/28/2022 1:55:43 PM (No. 1261666)
Soon, only the salmon will be living in California.
50 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/28/2022 1:59:19 PM (No. 1261667)
No one will be able to drive their electric cars to see the river anyway. So - bye bye.
24 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/28/2022 2:07:54 PM (No. 1261677)
You can do things like this when you have an over abundance of electricity, or if you're a stupid, really stupid, liberal democrat!
51 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bubby 8/28/2022 2:09:33 PM (No. 1261681)
It’s not about electric cars it’s about no cars! The Democrats want only mass transit that way they can control where we can go and end our freedom of movement! It’s all about control and nothing about the climate!
47 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 8/28/2022 2:18:24 PM (No. 1261697)
I guess I’ll have to get into the Winnebago and unload the jet ski to float up and protest. Salmon beware…
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 8/28/2022 2:26:15 PM (No. 1261703)
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Gonna charge those cars on a wish and a prayer.
10 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
marbles 8/28/2022 2:34:53 PM (No. 1261712)
What # 5 says writ large.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Grateful 8/28/2022 2:38:43 PM (No. 1261718)
Something smells fishy about this story (pun intended).
11 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/28/2022 2:49:10 PM (No. 1261722)
But cheer up, maybe they will replace the lost power with some new wind generators and solar panels.
And the farms that will no longer be able to irrigate, with bug raising operations to replace the lost farm grown foods.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
paral04 8/28/2022 2:53:46 PM (No. 1261725)
I thought we were going "Green". What is less "Green" then hydroelectric power?
15 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 8/28/2022 2:58:59 PM (No. 1261728)
What is it about envirofacists and dams?
They wanna blow them all up and have no idea what the consequences are.
14 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
billsv 8/28/2022 3:01:06 PM (No. 1261730)
CA needs more dams not less regardless of the Salmon for both water supply and electricity
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/28/2022 3:02:09 PM (No. 1261733)
Less electricity. That's PERFECT for the millions of new EVs that they are forcing on people.
Intentional crashing the system.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
justavoter 8/28/2022 3:13:58 PM (No. 1261747)
Liberal have a knack of destroying what they are trying to save
Liberalism is definitely a mental disorder
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
EQKimball 8/28/2022 3:15:56 PM (No. 1261748)
Wild salmon, like free-range chickens, are not bred in cages or hatcheries. Environmentalists argue that farmed salmon is more likely to contain traces of pesticides, but all rivers and streams consist of aggregated runoff, not all pristine, but also not hazardous. The salmon harvest in Alaska is the largest in North America and represents about 80% of the total wild-caught catch, with harvests from Canada and the Pacific Northwest representing the remainder. The most valuable salmon fisheries are in the Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, and Southeast regions.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/28/2022 3:18:58 PM (No. 1261751)
First and foremost they want the farmers off the land. This is a war against independent people. That is why they can be hypocrites about their hydro power in favor of their salmon. A few years ago the "Save the Eel River" folks even had a salmon dinner fund raiser and not one person raised an objection.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/28/2022 3:40:02 PM (No. 1261767)
As a lifelong trout fisherman (and most of the other fish) I generally prefer free-flowing rivers. On the other side of that is that the impoundment behind the dams helps wildlife and boost recreation opportunities. I live in Georgia. The cold water coming from Lake Lanier's Buford Dam has also created miles of trout water in the Chattahoochee River. You can fish for trout within the city limits of Atlanta. There is always a cost to benefit ratio to consider. However, that doesn't matter to the left. They go full speed ahead and never consider the consequences. Take out Buford Dam and half the City of Atlanta goes dark.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 8/28/2022 3:40:08 PM (No. 1261768)
FTA:
“PacifiCorp would likely have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit the structures to comply with today’s environmental laws."
So, here's the process. You create some new "environmental laws" which do many things. One is drive factories out of business, so they move to Mexico and China which have no such "environmantal laws". An added benefit from the ecocrazy destroyer of all things viewpoint is that a perfectly good hydroelectric dam which has been making electrical power and stopping flooding for three quarters of a century will be forced to spend hundreds of millions to upgrade a PERFECTLY FINE hydroelectric system to the modern nutball "environmental standards". So, they just give up, and the ecocrazies blow up the dams.
And....progress is reversed by the "progressives" and we slip back towards more and more freezing in the dark and farther away from a nice, comfortable future.
9 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bobn.t 8/28/2022 4:05:45 PM (No. 1261779)
Why was the dam built?
Why is it not needed now?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
slipstik 8/28/2022 4:17:43 PM (No. 1261787)
I KNOW!!!!! Every car and truck will have to have a tow along windmill turbine. Max range will be 3 miles for trucks and 7 miles for cars. LA to SF in only 4 weeks.
There won't be enough grid to recharge your manscaper razor.
5 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/28/2022 4:51:30 PM (No. 1261802)
California and Arizona are sucking Lake Mead dry so now they want to remove other dams and drain the lakes. Why did the country just spent $1.100,000,000 to fix Oroville? Why do we need more salmon? We are supposed to eat bugs to save the environment. There are a whole bunch of people flying over the cuckoo nest in CA and Washington DC.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/28/2022 4:56:09 PM (No. 1261803)
Bottom line: So does this mean more lox or less lox at Costco?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/28/2022 5:17:13 PM (No. 1261808)
The people living in California are going to get FERC-ed. Suicide by a thousand cuts.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Salt5792 8/28/2022 5:19:11 PM (No. 1261809)
No problem. Coal plants will replace lost power from the dams
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
singermom9 8/28/2022 5:21:18 PM (No. 1261810)
Libs want alternative energy. Do you ever wonder if any of those ABORTED could have been the ones to develop that? Maybe one of the ABORTED could have been the one to develop a cure for cancer. Libs are pathetic. They want clean energy-GO GREEN- and yet they do this. How are they going to charge their EV cars with NO ELECTRIC? So they are going to destroy 4 hydroelectric dams for the sake of the salmon the elites won't let us eat because we will have to eat bugs. Libs are so dumb.
7 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/28/2022 5:44:28 PM (No. 1261821)
Lights out boys! Lights out.....
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Plex 8/28/2022 5:55:56 PM (No. 1261830)
I nuke plant might replace all the hydro. Ok, maybe a couple.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
mean Gene 8/28/2022 8:01:58 PM (No. 1261916)
Salmon have an individual memory not a collective memory: each one goes back up the river it was spawned from.
They might have once gone up that Klamath River, but they won't just because they can.
They will go up the river they came from .... ONLY.
They haven't used the Klamath River in generations.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 8/28/2022 8:59:34 PM (No. 1261944)
We'll just die of thirst while biking everywhere! Kinda' takes the fun out of getting up in the morning.....
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