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Re:The World’s Aging Dams by Ensorceled on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:15AM (#26075769)
Dams are MORE environmentally friendly than most of the alternatives so that assumption is not entirely wrong.

If the choice is between environmental damage from fracking or coal mining and deaths from coal pollution or flooding a valley somewhere...

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Re:The World’s Aging Dams by ryathal on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:18PM (#26080784)
Other than the massive areas of land they flood and destroy (but you don't live there right?), or the fish that can no longer swim upstream, or anyone downstream that has to deal with reduced flow...
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Re:The World’s Aging Dams by collyw on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:41AM (#26076334)
Conveniently ignoring nuclear power.
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Re:The World’s Aging Dams by Ensorceled on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:31AM (#26079413)
MOST. I'm from Ontario and we get 58.3% of our electricity from clean, safe CANDU reactors. Why did you assert I'm ignoring nuclear power? It has nothing to do with Dams being LESS polluting than MOST of the alternatives.
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