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Tearing down dam goes against green argument
Can't anyone see the hypocrisy of acknowledging the crisis of global warming while at the same time advocating removal of functioning hydroelectric facilities, which quietly produce totally renewable electricity with zero greenhouse gas emissions and, unlike wind turbines, with very little visual impact?
August 17, 2006
by Chris Beeuwkes,Mercer
in Central Maine Morning Sentinel
On Tuesday (Aug. 8), the lead editorial was all about getting on with the breaching of the Fort Halifax dam. There was an implied suggestion that water behind dams is somehow unworthy and devoid of life. If this logic made sense, perhaps we should drain the Belgrade lakes so healthy streams could flow across the former lake floors? I am sure it would make better habitat for brook trout.
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