Here comes the rain.[CBSnews] PORTLAND, Ore. -- U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's unanimous vote on the lower Klamath River dams is the last major regulatory hurdle and the biggest milestone for a $500 million demolition proposal championed by Native American tribes and environmentalists for years. The project would return the lower half of California's second-largest river to a free-flowing state for the first time in more than a century..
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| this was something of an extortion/bribery victory for the Greens. They promoted various regulations which would have cost hundreds of millions of dollars which the Utility could not pay without raising rates and then as a carrot gave the utility some funding contingent on removing the dams-- by the way, Warren Buffet's group owns a lot of the utility. |
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