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JustWait[_2_]

On 7/20/2012 12:42 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:21:27 -0700, jps wrote:

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.

I am sure I can google up an article from the bark eaters that would
disagree about any dams but it is not that important to me. The fact
that it is still a geographical anomaly that you have rivers that lend
themselves to hydro is still true.

Quite frankly, there are plenty of places I can't go because the land
and resources are necessary for commerce to preserve the society. Why
can't fish and game with good populations be any different... Some
places, they just can't go anymore, it's progress, that's all...