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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1483820)	9/6/2024 6:58:37 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575257

" the Pacific Northwest will hamper their own "Net Zero" efforts because they're afraid of decimating fish." How much electricity were they generating?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1483820)	9/7/2024 8:13:15 AM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575257

T Watched the video of one of the two Elwha river dams being taken down in Stossel's story. Salmon restored to it's native condition and that will help our Killer Whale populations recover along with restoration of many native species in Olympic National Park. They were very, very small dams. More dams will be taken down in Oregon and Northern California too. 'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next bbc.com Very little actual power generation from all of them. Elwha River transformed 10 years after dam removal opb.org Elwha River Restoration nps.gov Restoration of the Elwha Rive en.wikipedia.org Snake river next... Oh, by the way literally millions and millions of salmon used to come up the Columbia and Snake rivers before they were damned. Not just hundreds of thousands. I do get a kick out of Stossel. He needs to do much more study and research of the real facts before he does a story. There are other ways to generate electrical power that are much more sustainable. Eric

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1483820)	9/7/2024 8:55:31 AM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1575257

Forgot to post this link: NOVA episode Planet Earth The Undamming of America We’ve impounded rivers for hundreds of years, but as our society has evolved, so has our relationship with dams. At the Elwha Dam in Washington state, Martin Doyle recalls looking down to see salmon paddling against the base of the dam, trying in vain to reach their spawning grounds upriver. Roughly 98% of the salmon population on the Elwha River disappeared after the dam went up, says Amy East, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Doyle points out that salmon are just one of many species affected by dams. Migratory shad, mussels, humpback chub, herring—the list goes on. He notes that the charismatic salmon are a more popular example than the “really butt-ugly fish we’ve got on the East Coast. pbs.org