Amazing Time-Lapse Video Shows Lake Emptied After Dam Removal
- Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:54pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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For 98 years, the 2-story hydro-power Condit Dam on White Salmon River helped power thousands of homes in the Pacific Northwest while creating a serene lake. The dam was dramatically breached Wednesday to allow an increased flow of water to restore the river to fish and other aquatic organisms, and National Geographic has posted an amazing time-lapse video of the lake’s draining:
Another video of the draining from American Rivers:
According to Indian Country, the demolition was “a happy day for tribal members, the salmon, and for the White Salmon River itself.” According to the AP, the dam removal cost around $32 million, while the improvements to the nearly century-old would have cost $100 million. Major demolition to the damn took place this week, and the rest of the dam is going to be taken down in the ensuing months. Studies that showed dam removal could be cost-effective began 14 years ago, and National Geographic reports that environmental organizations helped lead to the final moment.
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LoneRanger
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:10pm26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female image, created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And then came along environmentalist, abortion, zero population growth and PETA to which the decline of civilization began. We shall be holy.
Report Post »ionic
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:51pmWhatever happened to being a good steward?
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:01pmYes that just made me remember monday is 7 billion day at the UN and they are holding a confrence to deal with sustainability problems and talk about sterilization and other means to lower the population.
Report Post »Aikes
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:20amWhen you find some god….and by the way, man had imagined thousands to be “real”…when you find one god or another that will come down from somewhere in the clouds, stars, or wherever and give you dominion over anything, please share the moment on video. You see, I am desperately trying to find someone somewhere that can prove that any of these so called gods, ghosts, or trolls under the bridge are real. The best I can find are people who “believe” for no apparent reason and which toss around silly statements like, “but but but… science cant prove there is no god, ghosts, trolls under the bridge, fairies, dragons, Luke Skywalkers.”
So please, do tell which god you believe to be real and then try to explain which version of your religion is the right one because with soooo many different versions of religions I am sure a few are very wrong if ANY are right, yet no one seems to be able to decide on which version or which religion is right. Thanks.
Report Post »psychokittis
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:04am@Aikes I would suggest checking out In the Beginning-Compelling Evidence fo Creation and the flood’
Report Post »It’s located at :http://www.creationscience.con/onlinebook/
i won’t promise that it will make a believer out of you, but it goes a long way in presenting evidence, It’s a rather long e-book so it’ll take some time for you to read, but I’d highly reccomend it.
staggerlee32
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 5:50am@Aikes
Report Post »I’d rather believe and when I die find out there is no God than not believe and die and find out there is.
And at worst if you read the Bible, it’s not a bad way to live your life. There would be a lot less bad people if they lived there life according to God’s Word.
The10thAmendment
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 7:33amAnd yet, AIKES, you are fine with the silly notion of purple dinosaurs and Lucy. Being an atheist and all you are therefore satisfied by the worst violence, and earth raping imaginable. Predators feasting on weaker species until the genocide is accomplished thru Darwins ideology (idiocy) of E by NS.
Man uses the “gifts” God gave in nature to better our lot in life. Left to its own course erosion and natural deterioration of these so called eco-systems murder themselves.
Mankind is the steward of all that God gave, to subdue it, replenish it, to better all of life. Man will never out use all that God gave.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 7:34am@Aikes
Woe to this wicked generation who needs signs. It takes more faith to be an atheist than a believer. You really believe in this from goo to you via the zoo crap? If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? Even in Jesus’ time of miracles people saw the miracles and were more interested in the show than having faith in Jesus. They wanted the material things Jesus represented (see OWS) than in salvation.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 8:06amWakey wakey people…….UN Agenda 21 and IKCEI anyone???????? Our USA is changing and the “world’s best intrests” are coming into play………Not a conspiracy……..real
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 8:13am@ 000degrees
Report Post »Posted on October 31, 2011 at 8:06am
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You spoke the truth.
bm1967
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 8:55amTo Aikes:
Mocking other’s beliefs is the lowest form of trying to win an argument rather than trying to argue your position on merits. You display an arrogance of a man who thinks that everything can be resolved with human reason alone. I might not be the most religious person but I do not mock one’s believes. Have you ever heard of a “bet” about faith? If you believe in God and he does not exist, you lose nothing. However, if you choose not to believe in HIM and HE does exist, think of ramifications of your stubborn actions and inability of conceiving something more greater than your puny existence.
Finally, from the US Constitution, if you reject God’s existence, than your inalienable rights come from the government (like your right to liberty, life, pursuit of happiness/property) at which point you are up the creek as they can be taken away from you each time a new regime takes place… Answer this question: where your humanity is coming from?
Report Post »ROMANS 10-9
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:13amI pray that God will reveal Himself to you!
Report Post »In Jesus Christ name Amen.
teamarcheson
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:37amSUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER
This is insane. Why didn’t Americans do something to stop this insanity. A lake provide recreational boating fishing and prevents erosion. This one provides electric power. This is just the beginning of these insane people, other dams are next, people’s homes, airports, everything that was build by the hated white man.
Is TEA hot enough to prevent this judicial-legislative insanity?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:43am000degrees, I agree. First thing I though — Agenda 21.
For those who don’t know what United Nations Agenda 21 is, here’s a CA lady describing it and talking about “destruction of dams”
Simple description of UN Agenda 21 (CA lady) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oopudgty_FY
Obama said “fundamentally change America” but Bush I SIGNED the new world order. Here’s Bush I speech about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOxJUbMIwLc
Report Post »ConservativeMajority
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:38am@Aikes – Doubt you’re really an atheist? How could you be? Atheists make the absolute claim that there is no God. Absolute claims require absolute knowledge…..
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:52amYou know, I always thought sediment and turbidity were the enemies of mountain stream fisheries..?
Report Post »manjodad
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:14amI say that we should start eating the seals. Who is with me? I’ll bet they taste pretty good.
Report Post »PolitelyPlanning
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:50pmPsychokittis, Glad to here someone else has read that book! Makes a whole lot of sense, doesn’t it? I have lent that book out more than it is home! Whole new perspective! Thanks for sharing!
Report Post »ItsNotThatDifficult
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:15pm@ AIKES – Science and creation continue to reveal God. The more we discover in science, the more it proves his presence. Everything has a tendency towards chaos, and an applied effort must be made to bring order. When you observe the universe, you see a trend of chaos and disorder, just as on this planet. When your mother used to tell you “your room will not clean itself”, she may as well have said “the earth and mankind will not make itself.” The reason people have difficulty explaining their faith to you is because He intended for it to be impossible. You will know Him when you seek Him for yourself.
Report Post »Spirit 72
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:02pm.
Report Post »IONIC: Preventing floods is being a good steward. No coal fired generator for those thousands of homes was not enough? A rapids ladder to the lake would have sufficed, but not to an eco-nut. Admit it, you want the US to languish into a 3rd world nation.
schmite123oh
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:04pm@aikes seek not a sign, read the Bible and know your God! May the lord bless.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Report Post »woodworke6
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 6:35pmWhen I lived on the Columbia river several years ago, there was talk about taking out several of the dams along the river to allow better migration of salmon. Never mind that those dams provided a living for thousands of people who lived along the river.
Your right. The environmentalists are out to destroy mankind in order to save a fish.
Report Post »MinorityRightsAdvocate
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 6:40pmI don’t buy the numbers that this made economic sense, I’d bet those numbers were cooked.
Report Post »Hydropower is the only truly renewable energy source we have that IS economically viable, yet the environmental types want to do away with it in favor or wind and solar, which have NO chance of fulfilling our energy needs to retain our lifestyle and technology.
This is just more of the dismantling of the US that is supported by the spooky dude who wants to dismantle American power, and we stand by and watch it happen! It is agonizing to watch this not so slow moving tragedy, but who is to blame? Sadly our collective and all too abundant ignorance has brought us to the place, and as long as we stay that way, we are earning our demise…
justgonnastay
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 1:55amCONSERVATIVEMAJORITY – “Atheists make the absolute claim that there is no God.” No, atheists make the claim that based on a complete lack of empirical evidence, there is no God. From a strictly logical standpoint, it makes sense. However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Historically, there used to be many gods to explain thing man didn’t understand, so we had a god of the sun, god of the wind, etc. As understanding expanded, the gods fell into disuse, but there was still one question that affects all of humanity for which there were no answers: Death. Modern religion is centered around questions of what happens after we die.
Christianity has a powerful message and provides a solid framework by which to live your life, but it is entirely possible to live by Christian values without actually being a Christian. Many of the responses I see to AIKES obvious troll are extremely intolerant and many are outright ignorant (”If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes?”) Faith is personal, folks. If it works for you, fantastic! If someone disagrees with you, you can pray for them. Isn’t that the Christian thing to do?
Report Post »jerimiah41
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:13amTo Loneranger, I love the way you have quoted scripture. If we truly had more believers, we would have more love in our world. If we had more readers of the scriptures, we would have more believers. What we have are those(not you) that want to claim to be atheists never reading the scriptures or I had good friend recently tell me she is spirutual but not religious. I tried to get her to explain how that is possible or how does she justify one over the other. I tried convince her if she read the scriptures and believed she would be religious and than truly spritual. It is hard to believe those groups you mentioned can be either and their lives would be empty without having something to force us into to.
Report Post »God bless you and others that choose not to deny him. Jerimiah
barstooltestpilot
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:38pmSo what happened to the wildlife that adapted to the lake? Where did the fish, turtles, snakes, and little snail darters go. Sucked down stream like some giant toilet flush? America itself appears to be circling the drain….
Report Post »sandmannc40
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:03pmThe demolition of this dam did two things. Left the area without hydro-electric power and no fresh water. With the introduction of a virus to the Pacific Salmon from the Atlantic Salmon. The fisheries department in America are bound and determined to destroy the entire Salmon population. You have to ask yourself why? That is another story, wonder how close this one is to that one.
Report Post »grampdad
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:16pmThe salmon runs will never be replentished until they make it illegal to gill net the rivers. I commercial fished salmon in the 50′s, plenty of fish…1972 net fishing in the rivers made legal no more fish…strange correlation?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:44am@sandmannc40
Report Post »Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:03pm
The demolition of this dam did two things. Left the area without hydro-electric power and no fresh water. With the introduction of a virus to the Pacific Salmon from the Atlantic Salmon. The fisheries department in America are bound and determined to destroy the entire Salmon population. You have to ask yourself why? That is another story, wonder how close this one is to that one.
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One has to ask why? New farming regulations, making illegal to save and plant your own seeds, soros and china buying up farm land and commodities, CAN ANYONE SAY FORCED STARVATION?
NOT A CRAZY
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:16amGrampdad, Funny how this story references the tribal people being happy with the dam being torn down. I don’t know anything about those indians but all of the indians I have ever lived around net, net, net, and then net some more. Some indians pull so many salmon out of the river that they cannot even give them away. Some indians leave the gill nets stretched across the Klamath River and it is surprising anything gets through. The Nez Perce use nets on poles and stand at the mouth of a narrow river and catch salmon non-stop all day long. Until all Americans go by the same rules the fisheries will never improve.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:08amyou do realize that dams are the leading cause for high salinity in our drinking water, cuase the same water is reused 20x on a field… the run off causes more damage to the wild life than they are a good source of power… and its dumb to say just becuase there is no dam you cannot get clean water… i mean GROUNDWATER
Report Post »lobster
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:12amThat dam had been there for only 98 years. If the salmon population on that river was effected it would have been over within 5 years, not 98 years. The problem with the salmon populations is the failure to control the seals that live at the mouths of all the rivers on the west coast. They (seals) love to sneak up behind a salmon and clip off his tail, guess what? the little fishy can’t swim very well without a tail. They do it for fun, not to eat. There are literally millions of seals along the coast doing that.
Report Post »manjodad
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:17amI say that we should start eating the seals. Who is with me? I’ll bet they taste pretty good. When does seal hunting season start?
Report Post »ladyda
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:54pmWow! I bet there were an awful lot of salmon & trout with concussions.
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:20pmSWEET…they created an @$$ load of mud. environmentalists…BWAAAAAHAAHAAHA!
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:06pmWell, living in the Pacific Northwest, and knowing how damned expensive electric power is here, you just have to know my joy knows no bounds that this dam that once supplied power to thousands of homes is now gone. Yup. Of course, there seems to be no word on where the NEW power will come from, but maybe it will be Solyndra? Hell, I’m already forced to use lamp oil and candles in winter just to try to keep the electricity bill down, and I spent the summer preparing for winter- caulking, painting, and making storm windows to try to stay warm with heating oil at $4.25+ per gallon! Of course I have the satisfaction of knowing that I NEVER voted for the Democraps! It’s their country now, and they can take all the ‘credit” (read “blame!).
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:12amThanks for sharing.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 7:38amAs Obama said, under my plan, energy prices will NECESSARILY sky rocket.
Report Post »Armyof One
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:02pmTo be fair, the siltation was obviously at an extreme. The “lake” wasn’t more than a shallow wide spot. Without a large supply of water of deep water, the turbines simply will not get the energy to spin fast enough to create the electricity the dam was originally designed for. Dredging the lake would have made a larger mess, with the roads and trucks needed to haul the mud away, and any fish still would not have the means of getting above the dam.
This dam was old thought technology (dam it up, plug it in, the hell with the consequences), that has run it’s course. Better, more efficient designs in hydro-dams can now be considered on the same stretch, that won’t interfere with the natural flow of the river.
Would you guys be whining if this was a Chernobyl type of reactor?
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:09pmActually, we used to be headed for nuke power back in the 1970s with the Washington Public Power Supply system of nuke reactors as I recall. Of cours it turned into Whoops! It ran millions if not billions over budget and then the fights started. Everything was mothballed and shelved, leaving the Washington State taxpayers holding the bag and the bill.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:10pmYou must be a simpleton Army. Do you really think they will actually build another dam? It is obvious there was not any capacity left in that lake. It is obvious that the same idiots who are always screaming about siltation in the river turned a blind eye to this because the end justified the means.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:12pmActually I am all for green and clean nuclear-generated power but the nuts will never let it happen.
Report Post »Bob
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:00pmYou do realize that the “Dam Busters” are in the process of destroying a true means of producing power from nature. This dam will never be rebuilt, the purpose is to let nature take over and the humans be damned.
Report Post »Black Midge
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:16pmSiltation in dams in the west is a little known problem, I like my power no doubt, but the silt will wipe out most dams in the next century.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:04pmThorium based molten salt reactors can power an entire home for a year with 2 grams of thorium. I takes one cubic meter of dirt on average to be able to concentrate 2 grams of usable thorium. If however, you run an iron mine, you have the natural waste product of thorium. So with thorium reactors, we could have all of our energy needs met and it would be safe, cheap, and the amount of waste created is less than one percent of that from a uranium reactor. And actually, we could start using some of the uranium reactors’ waste materials as additional fuel in the thorium reactors. Best part, if the reactors ever start to over heat, all of the molten salt and fuel melts a “freeze plug” that drains the reactor fuel into a holding tank that is passively cooled by the ground and the salt fuel mix “freezes” solid and stays in the tank until the problem can be reconciled and the reactor can be restarted by liquifying and pumping the materials back up into the reactor.
Thorium reactors are the future. I’d have them put one in my back yard if all I got in return was free power for life. Did I mention that they can be made smaller scale than a uranium reactor, one that could power an entire neighborhood would fit in the back corner of my yard. Culdesac lot of course.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:13amI don’t understand why you think any of us would be opposed to nuclear power. You throw Chernobyl in there, but this isn’t Russia, so…I‘m not sure where you think you’re going. You probably didn’t either, but hey, thanks for participating.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:57am@Armyof One
Report Post »Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:02pm
re : This dam was old thought technology (dam it up, plug it in, the hell with the consequences), that has run it’s course. Better, more efficient designs in hydro-dams can now be considered on the same stretch, that won’t interfere with the natural flow of the river.
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I think will go “New thought technology” now, “Put up some windmills, plug it in. “NOTHING!!!” check it out, “NO WIND”. Buy some Chinese ceramic solar panels, install “em, plug it in “NOTHING!!” CHECK IT OUT, THE SUN CRACKED THEM, AND BIRDS GOOPED ON THEM , clean them off, repair the cracks, plug it in. “NOTHING!! ” CHECK IT OUT, THE SKY HAS CLOUD COVER, NOW THE WINDMILLS ARE TURNING, BUT TOO WILDLY WE’LL HAVE TO TAKE THEM OFF GRID, (see yesterdays story.) NOW WHAT’LL WE DO. “I KNOW, LET’S BUY SOME OWS BYCYCLE GENERATORS, AND GET ALL OUR COLLEGE KIDS TO PEDAL THEM!!!”
re : Would you guys be whining if this was a Chernobyl type of reactor?
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How about some Coal fired power plants, or natural gas, OR EVEN SOME OLD TECHNOLOGY HYDRO LIKE HOOVER DAM OR THE TVA DAMS THAT WORKED SO WELL FOR OVER 100 YRS?
Dustoff
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:23amWould you like to make a small bet that another damn will (never) be built.
Were talking Washington state. Run & ruled by crazy dem-o-rats.
Report Post »puzzlerman
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:38pmOkay, so now we can look forward to a new hydroelectric faclity being built on this river. Is that what you are saying? If so, I don’t believe you. I think you speak with forked tongue.
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:00pmI don‘t understand why they just didn’t put in fish ladders to let the fish move in spite of the dam. We can not trust liberals to make decisions based on economic factors. They are too emotional to make good decisions and they have nothing but contempt for money that is not in their own pocket. Maybe the $100 million was for fish ladders but it is going to cost $32 million for dam removal plus the monetary loss of income from power production. A thousand homes at $200 per month would get you $2.4 million dollars per year in electrical income. Some eco-freak is thinking they just saved $100 million minus $32 million by blowing up the dam? Hydro is some of the cheapest power out there, so replacing it from another source means they probably paid a higher price for the replacement power and had to transmit it and endure larger line losses to get it back to the customers. In my state, we use generators even though they are producing no power to modify the power factor, thus making the cost of transmission lower. The power in the lines is allowed to spin the generators until there is a demand for more hydro power. This is called condensing. The benefit goes to everyone in the area, not just those consuming the power locally.
Report Post »Alfred F. Jones
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:09pmIn Madras Oregon there is decent size dam that was installed before the idea of fish ladders were invented. They installed one that you can see goes on forever (its super long) I agree with you, why dont we do that? The fish are fine in Madras, its proven to work.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:54pmI`v been watching and waiting for almost three years for these people to do something that makes since and that would be good for America and Americans. Havnt seen anything yet. They have saved that little minnow in california though. Great for the minnow but not so great for the country or its people. Lotus.
Report Post »freedomweiner
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 7:34amYes !! Keep asking yourself “What are they NOT saying” ? Do your own homework.
No matter what the topic it is always the exact opposite of what makes sense.
Who is pulling the strings ?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:57pmHey! What about the fragile ecosystem that existed ABOVE the dam?
They completely disregarded the lives of millions of organisms above the dam who had just as much right to live as those who had tree-hugger lawyers and enviro-wack-tovists fighting for THEM!
Oh, and just so you know, all you bio-freaks… you consider people “animals.” As such, we have just as much rights as other “animals.” Plus, we are atop the food chain, so we have more rights. Plus, those of us who see that we are more than just “animals” understand that we have the responsibility to be good stewards of the earth, but, that we also have dominion over it!
Report Post »jespasinthru
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:38pmIt’s a myth that humans are at the top of the food chain. The food chain is a circle. Everything eats everything else. Humans have their predators, just like every other living thing. Ours are mostly microorganisms, but they’re just as deadly as any other predator.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:08am@tomferrari
Report Post »re : Oh, and just so you know, all you bio-freaks… you consider people “animals.” As such, we have just as much rights as other “animals.” Plus, we are atop the food chain, so we have more rights. Plus, those of us who see that we are more than just “animals” understand that we have the responsibility to be good stewards of the earth, but, that we also have dominion over it
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And if you believe even a smidgeon of what all the enviromentalists are spouting off about, “WE’RE THE MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES!!!“ ”THEY’D BETTER BEGIN TO PUT US BEFORE ALL THOSE OTHER ORGANISMS, LEST WE DISAPPEAR!!!”
BellaMia7
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:54pmObama said: “Under my plan electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.”
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:00pmGee that maybe the only truth that has come out of his mouth so far the rest is a f art
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:20amActually, he said “…under my plan, energy rates will necessarily skyrocket.”
I know it’s basically the same thing, but we should strive to be accurate.
Report Post »Diego Roswell
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:53pmFish are people too, aren’t they?
Report Post »paragtime
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:22pmObama’s best friend is a blowfish..enough said…
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:51pmThis is NOT a good thing. This a sign of more trouble to come. Part of the plan to destroy America. They are cutting us off at the knees by destroying our ability to make war!!! Destroy our natural resources or at least limit our access to them and you can limit our ability to protect ourselves. Lock and Load boys it’s going to get ugly!!!! Better get you food and water storage ready and your gus and ammo to protect yourself.
Report Post »bulletsinthegun
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:34pmCan’t agree with you more, time to create your own grid at home. prepare for the worst. It is just beginng.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:40pmNo more power, no more lake. Stupid.
Report Post »paragtime
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:25pmif one wants to destroy America it’s brilliant…They know what they‘re doing and Obama has succeeded in what he’s trying to do. America be damned..
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:45pmNo…America be UNdamned.
Report Post »california_red
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:40pmAhhhhhh dams. The progressive shovel ready green jobs of the past. Someday we will destroy our wind and solar farms because they injure birds or lizards. Modern day liberals cant even tolerate the big government projects of their forebearers
Report Post »geonj
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:37pmand what replaces the electricity generation and the jobs it created? screw the fish and screw the indians, people are without jobs now.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:16am@geonj
Report Post »Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:37pm
and what replaces the electricity generation and the jobs it created? screw the fish and screw the indians, people are without jobs now
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Don’t worry, IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE UNDER HIS PLAN, “it’ll become a FULL TIME JOB just staying alive!!!!”
Dustyluv
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:35pmHappy day for the Salmon? Better ask a salmon how he felt being blown to bits. This is another stupid enviromental wako project that will end in more regulations. I am sure of that. These people are relentless.
Hoover dam is probably on their hit list too.
Report Post »annieoakley
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:46pmThe first of the big damns to go ( and the one the Eco Nuts are drooling over) Glen Canyon, draining Lake Powell. It may not happen soon but it will happen if the goons stay in power.
Report Post »DadCooks2
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:32pmHow much aquatic life was killed by that silt laden flash flood?
I bet everything down stream was killed. What wasn’t left high and dry upstream is also in a drastically changed environment.
It will be years before fish levels begin to return and salmon will have to re-learn to use this stream to spawn.
Short sighted bureacracy not understanding unintended consequences and the Native Americans getting bad advice from the eco-dummies.
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:47pmThat‘s what I’m thinking too. I’m watching that silt washing downstream and thinking that is going to have a Mt. St. Helen’s type of impact on everything downstream.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:30pmSo are they planning on replacing the lost power with wind? The gorge has a lot of wind and there are huge, bird and bat killing wind turbines there. I believe each one of those turbines kills about 400,000 animals/year. Always there are unintended consequences. If anyone knows, I’d appreciate the information.
Report Post »PATRIOT PRIDE
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:29pmShould of been titled the “Draining of the American Economy”. The Obama stimulus package…a flood of money that made a mess.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:31pmPATRIOT PRIDE That’s more true than you know.
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:28pmSix minute video of this is awesome–great photography!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:27pmone more successful implementation of the UN policy
just like the flooding of the mississippi was intentional because of people refusing to use the dams for the reason they are there ……………flood control
they could have prevented much of the flooding if they had released water from these dams instead of keeping them full which would have allowed for the slow release of the extra water when the mississippi flooded
instead when we got all that rain, those dams were already , and intentionally at full capacity
this is just another step in the movement to return all our rivers to their original water beds …………this movement has been trying to grow stronger for quite some time , and is promoted by groups that believe we should stop advancing and growing our power sources
Report Post »FHNYMillie
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:32pmSounds like you‘re familiar with the UN’s Agenda 21. This is exactly what I thought when I read that they were going to be destroying this hydro plant. They have plans that will take our freedoms, our land, our food and put us in living(?) centers which right now are being called “sustainable developments”. Sound familiar? Is your community being sucked in by the green, sustainable monster? Yes, the UN wants the land reverted back to what it was before Columbus arrived. Everyone should do a search of Agenda 21 and ICLEI. Do it before it’s too late.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:07pmAgenda 21. Sustainable development. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVTGK1uYqJo&feature=player_embedded#!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:19pmSure destroued the river banks.. looks like a ugly wound now!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:14pmWho… decided that… Fishes were more important than Electrical Power for People… and what is the Plan and Cost for Supplementing the Loss?
Report Post »JohnHW
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:22pmDidn’t Obama stated during his election bid that the cost of electric power was necessarily going through the roof. Well, here is the first one. Now, they are going after coal. Then nucleur power. So, if you don’t have wind or solar power, don’t expect to have electricity.
This is just the first.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:24am@lukerw
Report Post »Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:14pm
Who… decided that… Fishes were more important than Electrical Power for People… and what is the Plan and Cost for Supplementing the Loss?
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YES, W*H*O?? The question of this ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION!!! Don’t look for the answer in Congressionally (senate) approved cabinet heads. WE’RE A NATION OF CZARS NOW, ANSWERABLE ONLY TO TOTUS!!! “Who????????”
dread_pirate_roberts
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:08pmWell, Damn!
Report Post »dread_pirate_roberts
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:13pmOr should it be “All dedamned!”
Report Post »MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:25pmDon’t you mean, well, dam?!
Had a tough time choking down that whole paragraph…
According to the AP, the dam removal cost around $32 million, while the improvements to the nearly century-old (century-old what?) would have cost $100 million. Major demolition to the damn (or is it dam?) took place this week, and the rest of the dam (or is it damn?) is going to be taken down in the ensuing months.
Report Post »angelonquest2000
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 10:29pmi dont know about you guys but since deregulation my electric bill doubled…..they have taxes on taxes………..argh……..good luck!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:08pmsomething fishy about this story where are the people getting their power from now .I know restoring the river is a good thing but destroying hydro power dams could lead to more coal power plants and the environazis definetily don’t want that.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:36pmIts like that Geico commercial. They will get fishies to swim to make electricity now….Idiots!
Report Post »KusoJiJi
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:03pmum, so now what?
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:09pmEat more fish?
Report Post »dread_pirate_roberts
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:18pmThere has got to be at least one dam joke in this, I mean dam it all, what will the dam beavers do for a dam place to eat their dam tree branches and think of all the dam unemployed dam beavers! Dam it all, do we now put them on dam unemployment for 200 dam weeks, or is this the start of the “occupy the damn dam!”movement. Tree huggers unite, the river runs free and the electricity runs effin HIGH!!!
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