Deconstruction of Klamath River dam underway by Jason Turk

KRCR news ^ | Sun, June 25th 2023, 3:30 PM PDT | Jason Turk

[justrepublican]

Ditto

[popdonnelly]

We need energy, so let’s demolish hydroelectric plants. Environmentalists are crazy.

[Valpal1]

Yes. It’s going to cause tremendous harm to the ag economy of southern Oregon and they don’t really have any other economy. In 50 years they’ll be putting the dams back in.

[NorthMountain]

Tear down civilization.

That's exactly their plan. Remember the Georgia Guidestones? "Maintain population at 500,000,000 in harmony with nature."

Guess who they don't want to include in that 500 million?

[Noumenon]

That would be us. They want a small class of technorati to maintain their own comforts and a cadre of brown, low IQ slaves to perform grunt work.

[SPDSHDW]

How is hydro electric power too costly?

I’m missing facts here.
Is it this particular series of dams or in general?

As far as I understand , hydro electric is the cheapest’ “cleanest” energy possible, it’s just using turbines to take advantage of already flowing water, with an added bonus of flood control.

[Organic Panic]

“Native” salmon. Even though it is the same DNA that is sold in grocery stores.

[Organic Panic]

Germany is giving us a run for the money of suicidal nations.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Good. Now do Hetch Hetchy in California.

[VTenigma]

True enough.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Coho salmon.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

There will be some entertaining books written in the next few decades about how American society was completely eliminated by sheer stupidity over the course of about two generations.

[shotgun]

I lived in Klamath Falls for 2 years. I don’t recall much agriculture other than ranching. That was 2000 to 2002

[Colorado Doug]

Well they might as well remove it since they have all the electricity and water they will ever need anyway. Just don’t let them buy power off of our grid.

[jimjohn]

I didn’t know Jeff had passed away. I knew him. He was a good man. When did it happen?

[bray]

These insane libs will wonder why they have floods and no power for their EVs.

[rlmorel]

I seemed to think it was around 2019 he passed away, so I just went and looked up his Freep name, and he last posted in 2019. I recall he posted saying he had cancer in his spine and it was terminal. (I wanted to be careful because I thought another Freeper had passed on, and said so in a thread!!!!!! Very bad JuJu...)

Anyway, in looking him up, I was gratified to see he had taken up the banner for General Michael Flynn, and it was a cause for him (as it is for me). Jeff was involved in efforts to raise money, get petitions signed, etc. It reinforced my gut feeling that even though I did not know him personally, he was a Patriot. That he devoted his last days and posts on FR to his outrage at the treatment of General Flynn speaks volumes to me, as I had independently researched and compiled a chronological timeline of the Persecution of General Michael Flynn:

LINK: TIMELINE OF THE GOVERNMENTAL ABUSE OF LT. GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN (PDF Format)

It is 12 pages in a spreadsheet format with links, explanations, significant dates, and people involved. It looks like this, and surprisingly, many of the links are still functional.

I put it together because what was done to him by the Left (and some of "our" people too) just disgusted me so deeply I had to ensure I understood what was done to him. Doing it in this format really made the malignant behavior done by those determined to do him in really stand out.

I did not know Jeff Head personally. But I respected the hell out of his worldwide knowledge of Naval capability, and his ability to build models and customize them really blew me away. He was a Patriot, may he RIP.

Fair Winds, and Following Seas, Jeff.

[Noumenon]

You know, I’m not sure. Some years back, he was in a bad way with cancer, and then he went dark. Understandable. And yes, he was a good man. He fought for what was right even at some personal cost.

[Noumenon]

Thank you for this information. I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff at my old place in Spirit Lake, ID. Had a grill-up and a meet n greet with a few other local Freepers. That 2as a decade or so ago. Had a most enjoyable chat.

[frithguild]

In the process to examine whether relicensing made sense, FERC projected the cost of Klamath hydroelectricity would be 8.6 cents/kWh after relicensing - not including the cost of meeting water quality standards if possible. FERC’s estimate of the additional increment of cost from dam removal to any replacement power costs is 2.4 cents/kWh.

You were dealing with a series of 4 dams the oldest of wch was 100 years old. Old equipment breaks, sediment accumulates. All while per generation technologies have become more efficient. As a ratepayer, why would you want more expensive power with the added benefit of algae filled stagnant water not fit for recreation and fish kills?