California to Begin Removing Hydro Dams on Klamath River
The State of California is about to begin removing the first of four dams on the Klamath River — despite an extreme drought and a looming electricity generation crisis — to improve habitat for migratory salmon and satisfy Native American groups.
As the Associated Press (via Breitbart News) noted earlier this year, President Biden’s administration reversed course after President Donald Trump’s administration blocked the dam removal on California’s second-largest river, which was planned in 2016 after California and Oregon signed an agreement to demolish the dams but still required federal approval.
Now, the demolition has been scheduled for 2023, awaiting only confirmation that dam removal itself would not harm fish.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:
The first of four aging dams on the Klamath River, the 250-mile waterway that originates in southern Oregon’s towering Cascades and empties along the rugged Northern California coast, is on track to come down in fall 2023. Two others nearby and one across the state line will follow.
The nearly half-billion dollars needed for the joint state, tribal and corporate undertaking has been secured. The demolition plans are drafted. The contractor is in place. Final approval could come by December.
Now, among the last acts of preparation, scientists are trying to make sure the fish and wildlife that are intended to benefit from the emergence of a newly wild river will thrive. While the decision to remove the hydroelectric dams was financial, it was urged —and enabled — by those hoping to see a revival of plants and animals in the Klamath Basin.
The state has not built new reservoir capacity in four decades, while California’s population has continued to grow, making the ongoing three-year drought even more onerous.
Moreover, the state has suffered blackouts in heat waves due to the lack of sufficient energy, as fossil fuel power plants are phased out, along with nuclear power plants. Solar and wind power are not yet able to make up the missing power supply because they are unreliable in calm conditions and in overcast weather.
Earlier this month, the California Coastal Commission rejected a plan to build a desalination plant in Orange County that would alleviate water shortages, as desalination has successful done in San Diego County and in Santa Barbara.
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Alan
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I’m sure Meghan and Harry will have a plan to save California from drought and energy shortages.
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Mark Tapley
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The BLM-ANTIFA are proxy warrior front groups for Soros (((Gyorgy Schwartz))) and (((Jacob Schiffs))). NAACP who did not have a black president for over 60 years, used in order to foment racial hatred and stall economic progress of the Amer. negro. The so called environmental groups are also proxy warriors for the same elite’s Club if Rome and their plan to destroy the western economies in the name of climate change and saving the planet. The fake virus, mandates and poison vaccines are tools of the big Pharma medical mafia all controlled at the top by the same Zionist groups using the Gates run WHO and medical operatives in all the countries to impose their plan for global hegemony. There are many front groups and initiatives but only one central hierarchy running the show.
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Kevin Doyle
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The Leftist fruitcakes in California appear to have deep suicidal tendencies.
As such, it would be in everyone’s best interest if they stopped destroying the livelihoods of the citizenry, and focussed on satisfying their urges by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
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VOWG
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I guess turning CA into the desert it was is far more important than human beings.
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Howdy
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The Indian folk want to live an authentic lifestyle I suppose, even if that means possibly hardship, but the salmon can be provided for with channels that emulate the natural hazards and waterfalls the salmon fight against as they migrate to spawn.
The dam, and nature, can co-exist.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Howdy:
Real “Indian folk” in California are about as plentiful as negroes at a KKK rally. Almost all the real Indians in the U.S. (never a big population) intermarried with whites long ago such as my grand mother who was full blood. There are a few still in reservations out west who are a good example of what happens when people lose their dignity and work ethic to become wards of the welfare state. There used to be a lot of Indians in McCurtain County Okla. Before my grand mother died, my father told her, we’re going to have to take you to the hospital. She told him “I’m not going. There’s too many damn Indians over there.”
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Howdy
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Did you have to desecrate the subject with your insane BS.
Every time you do something like this to a comment of mine, I’ll remind you of your ways with a quote from the thing you claim to be an oracle of.
Acts 20:30 And from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Howdy:
Merely adding perspective to the conversation. Of course you took Apostle Paul’s message to the Church out of context.
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Howdy
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“Real “Indian folk” in California are about as plentiful as negroes at a KKK rally”
“There’s too many damn Indians over there.””
I see, that is in the context of my reply… OK
Let’s see: The Jewish, Jewmerica, thus all resident Jews are included, Pakistanis, Britishstan, thus all British residents, fake American Indians, the Blacks, and the KKK. Your excuse of stating you don’t mean all of them doesn’t wash because you blanket attack all of them until it is pointed out to you.
You really are a bigoted racist. With a massive ego to boot!
“you took Apostle Paul’s message to the Church out of context.”
Of course, I don’t understand it.
You are not the oracle of the Bible, nor God’s mind, and you blaspheme every time your actions make claim to you being so.
Matthew 5:43-44: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
You won’t get out of that one.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Howdy:
You continue to take everything out of context, even the quote from my grand mother which was amusing because she was an Indian. We are required live honestly, and at peace with all men as much as possible. However just as Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple, condemned the Pharisees (Jews) as vipers and sons of the devil and charged the Romans to be good soldiers, there are many different situations that arise. Although “all have fallen short of the grace of God” , the Christian goal is to declare as did Paul in 2 Timothy 4:7-8
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
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Howdy
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“at peace with all men as much as possible. ”
LOVE thine enemy is the stated condition. No middle ground exists, or context. Not open to negotiation.
“You continue to take everything out of context”
In your own words, I do not understand scripture. You, on the other hand MUST understand it because you passed judgement on my perception and knowledge of the Bible. Therefore, you have no excuse.
The acts of Jesus were under the heading of truth under Divine Justice. The Great flood was Divine Justice despite the loss of life. No mortal has such access. It is beyond debate.
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
You seriously expect that passage to apply to you, to even exonerate you? Unbelievable.
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Upchuck.Liberals
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When the last dam comes down they will be celebrating…up until we start to get serious rain again and the reservations that are on the river are washed away. It’s happened before, it’ll happen again. Then they’ll be crying for the dams.
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