Elwha Dam removal, 2011. The largest dam-removal project in U.S. history. Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care.
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For hydropower to continue to make a contribution to sustainable energy it needs to consider from the outset the true costs, social, environmental and cultural that may be involved, and include those in the pricing of the infrastructure, including the eventual removal of the dam, rather than pass those on to the public in 30 years.
“The benefits of energy from dams no longer outweigh the social and environmental costs that damming up rivers brings about…”
Read Full Article; Science Daily (11-05-2018)
The Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers, A Video from Todd Southgate (05-26-2016)
Though large hydropower projects are often presented as a “clean and green” source of energy, nothing could be further from the truth…
Mega Dams Remain Controversial Source of Energy; IPS News (06-09-2016)
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source; Yale E360 (08-07-2015)
Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution. In many places, such as the U.S. East Coast, hydroelectric dams have damaged the ecological integrity of nearly every major river…
1000 Dams Down and Counting: Dam Removal Study Reveals River Resiliency; USGS (05-02-2015)
Elwha, The Grand Experiment (11-12-2012)
On The Elwha, A New Life When The Dam Breaks
Nobody figured the largest dam removal project ever attempted in the U.S. was going to be easy, or fast.The nation’s largest and most ambitious dam removal will begin this month, when workers start demolishing two antique dams on Washington state’s Elwha River…
12 Dams that Changed the World, Guardian UK (01-13-2015)
Large Dams Just Aren’t Worth the Cost, The New York Times (10-25-2014)
Small Dams On Chinese River Harm Environment More Than Expected, study finds, NSF (05-30-2013)
Dams – Cutting off our Beach Sand; By Gary Griggs (12-19-2014)
