re: #86 erik_t

It will be a cold day in hell that I get bent out of shape for building a dam.

Hell, I wasn’t even that annoyed with Palin’s Bridge of Questionable Utility. It doesn’t rot or decompose, it might be useful someday, and the money you paid the people to build it (which is the vast majority of the capital cost) doesn’t just disappear into thin air.

Main question with dam projects is the additional environmental impact on the environment and ecology of the area. Fish migration, habitats, etc. One reason the Atlantic Salmon (and also Pacific Salmon) have reduced ranges in North America is that the way they like creeks and rivers is not the way that humans like creeks and rivers.