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 Stories About: dams AND energy AND salmon
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Eight hundred megawatts or salmon?
The damming question |
Erik Hoffner |
15 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| It's been 50 years since Celilo Falls in Oregon was buried by the Dalles Dam to create 800 megawatts of power, but the memory of the great salmon runs lost live on through the tribes who migrated again this year to the spot to mourn the day. Orion Grassroots Network member group Save Our Wild Salmon opined eloquently in the Oregonian this week about the choices our society made for green power. It reminded me that there is a place near my home called Salmon Falls, on We ... |
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