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Dam Strait

Western states look into building new dams

Posted at 3:37 PM on 03 Mar 2008

Concerned about climate-caused drought, officials in at least six Western states are looking into building new dams to create rain-capturing reservoirs -- even as dams across the country are being torn down over environmental concerns.

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Disgusting!

So, instead of lowering their population and individually consuming less energy, people would rather destroy rivers and their ecosystems.

Also, this is another example of why enviros should not obsess about global warming to the exclusion of other serious environmental and ecological problems.  More dam(n)s and nuke plants will create even more destruction (not to mention that they will do little or nothing to stem global warming), but global warming is now being used as an excuse to cause all sorts of other ecological destruction.

by Wolverine at 12:10 PM on 04 Mar 2008

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