Today the main stem of the Columbia River has 14 dams, of which three are in Canada and 11 in the US. Four mainstem dams and four lower Snake River dams contain navigation locks to allow ship and barge passage from the ocean as far as Lewiston, Idaho.

Im willing to bet they have not taught of that yet

All 4 lower snake removals are approved and the remaining fl4 mainstreams are under planning

"Muh wind"

Oregon removed hydro from the state definition of "green energy"

look at post about wind that I did make 4 post ago

Wind is still part of oregons "green" definition

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki I hope Idaho builds more dams to fuck them over

As is solar

They're federal projects

But solar woul laughable in the nw

solar is to unreliable to base all your power generation on

especially in the PNW

also it kills shitloads of birds when it works

Feds are fighting the removals

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki Feds should allow it and not have them import energy from other states

they wanted to be "green" afterall

Feds and states cant limit state to state import and export

My thing is power aside. Removing the dams will kill agriculture cause of irrigation losses

All those oregon wines which is one of the few remaining large industries will hurt

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Privately owned

Shit, I forgot about all of that

The entiriety of the Yakima basin exists because of the dams allowing for the irrigation pumps to bring it inland

Yep

Same with Willamette

@Fitzydog but these retards don't think about their actions

nor are they ever personally effected by them

The rogue valley already took a bit of a hit from the removal of the rogue river dam

@galesteppes The otherside of the mountains are someone elses problem, right?

Question @Goblin_Slayer_Floki , where does portland get it's drinking water?

Bullrun

I did misspeak. The kalamath river dams are being removed as we speek. Lower snake is in planning with main columbia on the docket for future

The Bull Run reservoir is fed from glacial runoff off Mt Hood

Yea

They sure as shit dont get it from the columbia

I fully support global warming

You dont even want to swim in that part of the columbia

make mt hood snowless

Oh god, more drought

@Fitzydog but then portlanders wouldn't have their water
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