Take Out Glen Canyon Dam.

The Canyon of Glen would recover very quickly if left to its own devices and there would be virtually no damage left to discern, within just a few hundred years.

And dam removal might be a "tough sell" if indeed the Glen Canyon Dam impounded water for drinking or agriculture.
It is only for producing power (and is so remote that at least half the power is lost in transmission).

The damage caused by the dam is not limited to the flooded land. Blocking the flow has caused the water temperature downstream to remain constantly cold, rather than vary naturally. It also causes the river to run clear most of the time. These two changes have decimated the native chub. The trout love it, but they are not native.

The lights would go out in about every Indian reservation and small town without it.

"Yeah, couch,
trade offs are not always a good deal. A little bit of cheap power is not worth destroying what was a breath takingly awesome canyon system with who knows how many anthropological sites.

Surprised you would say it."

"Bare vs. bear

As an adjective, bare means lacking clothing, naked, exposed to view, or lacking adornment. As a verb, it means to make bare, to uncover, or to expose. Its past tense is bared. Bear has no adjectival definition. When not referring to the large mammal, it is a verb with a variety of meanings, none of which relate to uncovering or exposing. A few of its meanings are to hold, to support, to exhibit, to carry oneself in a specified way, to endure, to give birth to, and to yield (especially fruit). Its past tense is bore (e.g., it bore fruit), and its past participle is borne (e.g., it has borne fruit)."

3rd) Replacement power WILL be carbon based. Natural gas and coal.

Denmark adopted a target of cutting carbon emissions by 22% from 1988 levels by 2005.[6] On 29 March 1985, one year before the Chernobyl disaster, the Danes passed a law forbidding the construction of nuclear power plants.
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Planning of wind power was deliberately streamlined by authorities in order to minimize hurdles.[7]

Many countries tried to subsidize green technology such as wind power, and most failed to make a viable industry. The Danish system was an exception, providing 30% of initial capital cost in the early years which was gradually reduced to zero, but still maintaining a feed-in tariff.

April 2 — Book reading and discussion at Back of Beyond Books, 83 North Main St., Moab, 6:30 p.m.

California Department of Fish and Game records disclose seven of these large recreational dams along the mainstem of the San Lorenzo River.

"I love the way you assume that everyone who thinks differently is uninformed."

flat land of Denmark does not readily lend itself to hydroelectric

can someone please explain the benefits of draining the lake?

"In the midst of a drought which has been going on for nearly two decades (and is expected to continue), can someone please explain the benefits of draining the lake?"

In 1996, 2004, 2008 and 2012 they did massive water releases precisely to try to flush the Colorado River downstream.
It's not clear whether they met their objectives as they've had to repeat the process.

The Navajo power plant has to be seen from the air to be believed.
It casts a stream of gray air all the way across southern Colorado. It's visible pollution output is shocking.

"My perspective is that we need to protect what few remaining wild lands we have then tackle dam dismantling projects. Besides the gondola to one of the most special places on the Colorado Plateau, there are strong efforts to begin uranium mining on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, as well as a mega-development on the South Rim. Once we fvck a place up it is a lot harder to fix, let's keep a few places wild."

We would go around a corner and spread out before us was this incredible sight that a) nobody had ever seen before b) nobody had touched it and c) it was utterly and incredibly beautiful.

Studies now show that the 20th century was one of the three wettest of the last 13 centuries in the Colorado basin. On average, the Colorado’s flow over that period was actually 15 percent lower than in the 1900s. And most experts agree that the basin will get even drier: A brace of global-warming studies concludes that rising temperatures will reduce the Colorado’s average flow after 2050 by five to 35 percent, even if rainfall remains the same — and most of those studies predict that rains will diminish.

Edit: there are lots of fish in this bay, too!

I enjoy catching lots of fish.