Report: Benefits of dams must be replaced before breaching

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The benefits provided by four giant hydroelectric dams on the Snake River must be replaced before the dams can be breached to save endangered salmon runs, according to a final report issued Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington U.S. Sen. Patty Murray.

That is especially true regarding the reliable and carbon-free electricity the dams generate, the report concluded.

If the four Snake River dams were ultimately removed, it would be largest such project in U.S. history. In 2012 the Elwha Dam on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula was removed to restore habitat. At the time, the National Park Service said the elimination of the Elwha Dam was the largest such project in U.S. history.

Congress will ultimately decide if the federally owned dams will be removed and would have to appropriate money for the work.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-benefits-of-dams-must-be-replaced-before-breaching/ar-AA116zqd

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1. while China has built the biggest dam in the world

The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.The Three Gorges Dam has been the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW)

Not to mention the 100 new coal fired power plants under construction in China.
China is hungry for energy and coal power being the cheapest gives then economic advantage.

[RainCaster]

2. So many lies have been told about the benefits of tearing down those dams

The salmon saved will go to the orcas in Puget Sound we've been told.