Posted on 12/08/2022 3:41:41 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
I spent over 22 years in WA state and I have seen in person how Tribes in the Pacific Northwest and SE Alaska, treat their natural resources. They don’t have a clue about conservation or preservation for that matter. It is all about the money. Most all the schiff you hear about living as one with the land is just Progressive Liberal marketing groups, that have a political agenda.
I’ve seen the same here in Hawaii for the last 22 years. Natives are the worst protectors of the “Aina”. It is all about the money.
“hundreds of miles of habitat for salmon, “
Salmon. $15 a pound at the grocery store. There is no shortage of salmon.
HOW many farms & ranches will be destroyed without controlled irrigation water?
What will hold back FLOODING in the Spring???
BUY EV’s while we destroy power for 70,000 households.
MATH isn’t their strong point.
WHERE do the Indians get their POWER??
I get the impression that the salmon population is more important than any other population, man or beast.
Death from dihydrogen monoxide will go up.
“How many farms & ranches will be destroyed...?”
As many as they can.
Grew up in So. Oregon fishing the Klamath river.
Big trout!
This is gonna be ugly for all the reasons already stated.
Salmon numbers?
Better off “controlling” the seal lion / seal populations...
The Oregon I grew up in is 100% gone.
Thankfully, a Georgia resident for a couple decades now with no plans to even visit, considering the crazy gun law just passed.
Same thing in Arizona.
“...abundant populations of migratory birds, suckers, salmon and other fish could thrive...”
Well suckers for sure! Watch for unintended consequences! There was a reason they were built. Bad luck living back in the 1870’s.
Once the dams are removed and all is back to normal it will
be the same amount of water flowing down stream as before. Once the flow is stabilized then there will be more acreage
for people to reside on.
our country marches backwards......
they'll force all the farms to shut down do to no reliable water and that is what they want....so the rich can come in and buy up cheap land.....
100%. Regarding American Indians, unfortunately the vast majority who never left the Rez and are involved in tribal affairs are obese, diabetic alcoholics with no education and a conquered mentality. Not who you want running anything. What is it with modern American where deferring to the weakest, sickest or most mentally ill among us is en vogue?
I donât have anything against American Indians but I sure as shyte donât think of them as collectively fit to administer much. Besides, we won.
I live here in S Oregon and have been following this closely. I submitted testimony to FERC along with thousand of others opposing the dam removals, but the green extremists won the day.
Whatâs seldom mentioned is that the dam removals will also result in the loss of firefighting water from three reservoirs, as well as the loss in value of many lakefront properties. There have been hundreds of helicopter dips from those reservoirs over the years, and those dips may have even helped save the town of Ashland during one fire.
I fail to understand why hundreds of millions are being spent to destroy this essential infrastructure in order to preserve the archaic customs of a small minority of people. As mentioned in another comment - salmon - itâs in the store - 15 bucks a pound. Why canât the natives âprogress,â âmove on,â like the rest of us have to? How did they get so much power?
Fire in the teepee?
Yup, chipping away at all our sources of energy.
Get rid of the nasty "fossil fuels, ban ICE vehicles, then tell people not to charge their EVs, and now get rid of one of the cleanest sources of electricity.
All we'll be left with is bird killing windmills with blades that never deteriorate and can't be recycled, or solar panels that contain toxic metals and are taking up food producing farmland.
The left could not be doing a better job of destroying the planet if they tried.
Its about fish. Specifically salmon. Crazy lefties. All at a time when energy is in a crisis....and this is clean energy. Nowhere in man’s history have we ever gotten a lost salmon run to return on this planet. States such as Washington are doing the same thing....and yet at the same time spending billions on hatcheries to create false runs. 15 years ago, an article in the paper estimated that it cost taxpayers $168 for each fish that returned to it’s river.
How will the water be cleaner?
They will be destroying a 100 year old ecosystem.
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