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jps

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:30:59 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:56:48 -0700, jps wrote:

Where's hydro? Rest of the country giggles about all our rain but we
end up laughing last.

Washington is the leading hydroelectric power producer in the Nation.

Hydroelectric power accounts for nearly three-fourths of State
electricity generation.

That is a geographic anomaly that was exploited at a time before
environmentalists. The thrust now is in blowing up dams.
I doubt the US will ever build another one and certainly not anything
on the scale of the Colorado or Columbia river dams. People are trying
to restore natural river flows to protect migrating fish and
everything that depends on them.

Uh, not so. We are taking out dams that prevent salmon runs but if
you read any of the fishing news up here, you'd know that salmon are
making it up the Columbia past Rocky Reach dam and far beyond to spawn
naturally.

The dams that were constructed without proper bypass or adequate fish
ladders are being dismantled. Take a look at the map of Washington
power generation and you'll see power generation happening all the way
up the Columbia without harming the salmon runs.