by faster | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Seattle Times DATE: February 27, 2020 SNIP: Years and millions of dollars in the making, a draft federal report on hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia Basin will not settle the decades long fight over saving imperiled salmon in the Columbia and Snake...
by faster | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: November 8, 2019 SNIP: The biggest hydroelectric project in the Amazon rainforest has a design flaw that poses a “very serious” threat to human life and globally important ecosystems, according to documents and expert testimony received by...
by faster | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: AZCentral DATE: September 27, 2019 SNIP: A Phoenix company wants to build two hydroelectric dams less than five miles from the eastern border of Grand Canyon National Park, submerging several miles of the Little Colorado River and the endangered fish habitat...
by faster | May 14, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Vancouver Sun DATE: May 14, 2019 SNIP: Journalist Sarah Cox takes on the dirty business of clean power in Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro. NP: Clean energy = Bad? Please explain. SC: Large hydro dams are a hugely...
by faster | May 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: New Scientist and Nature DATE: May 8, 2019 SNIP: Nearly two thirds of the world’s longest rivers have had their flow tampered by humans in the form of dams, reservoirs and other forms of water engineering. A boom in hydropower is partly to blame, suggesting we...