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Conservation Nation EP14: What explains California’s water scarcity woes?

Learn about California's water scarcity woes in Episode 14 of CFACT's original video series Conservation Nation.

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Gabriella Hoffman

|2024-01-29T12:02:18-05:00June 13th, 2023|Comments Off

Breaching Snake River dams riles Pacific Northwest

An Idaho congressman’s push to win congressional and Biden White House approval for removing four dams in the Lower Snake River in order to save dwindling stocks of salmon has ignited a firestorm

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2021-02-28T14:36:51-05:00March 2nd, 2021|Comments Off

The failure of all their dam plans

“Malcolm Turnbull’s Murray Darling Basin plan has failed and must be abolished.

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CFACT Ed, Viv Forbes

|2019-07-15T14:18:31-04:00July 17th, 2019|Comments Off

Australia’s growing dam crisis

Australia is arid, but smart use of dams would ensure water for everyone.

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CFACT Ed, Viv Forbes

|2019-07-10T20:33:10-04:00July 13th, 2019|Comments Off

Flooding ourselves with valuable water

Flooding often occurs in drought prone places. So the water that is hurting us is actually very valuable, if we could store it, which is just what dams do. We are flooding ourselves with valuable water. How stupid is that?

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CFACT Ed, David Wojick

|2019-06-07T10:07:31-04:00June 7th, 2019|Comments Off

Here’s the dam deal: build more hydropower dams

Hydro is still our biggest and most reliable renewable energy supplier.

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David Wojick

|2019-04-19T16:39:43-04:00April 20th, 2019|Comments Off

Here’s the dam deal: Build more dams

Our national flood control system is only half built and we need to finish it.

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David Wojick

|2019-04-14T10:41:31-04:00April 15th, 2019|Comments Off

What’s the Dam Deal?

By Grace Cancelmo: In the U.S. alone, there are about 84,000 dams, ranging from small to large, however, less than ten percent of these dams are used to actually generate power. Hydroelectricity generates about twelve percent of the electricity in the U.S. The expansion of hydroelectricity to these dams is possible.

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|2019-03-29T11:07:46-04:00March 30th, 2019|Comments Off

Save the Snake River dams or it’s hardship for the Pacific Northwest

Once Avista’s customers become Hydro One’s customers, they could be faced with electricity bills as much as 350% higher than they are currently paying. That's what happens when utilities – often coerced by governments in the name of “combating climate change” – shift from reliable sources of energy to politically fashionable but notoriously unreliable and expensive renewable energy.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2017-10-11T21:16:48-04:00October 11th, 2017|3 Comments