The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border — a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and explosives.

  • deranger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do educate me.

    It just seems like a huge waste of energy / resources to remove an existing dam than to remediate it somehow. I didn’t see any mention of if this generated power or how it’d be offset.

    Not really an environmental win if this hydro power capacity was replaced by coal.