Interior Secretary Pens Letter Supporting Klamath Dam Removal
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland released a letter last week to the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee in support of Klamath dam removal. “Dam removal will restore …
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Officials Scrap Plan To Remove Dams To Restore Atlantic Salmon
After receiving significant pushback from multiple stakeholders, and the threat of a lawsuit, Maine officials have dropped a proposal for restoring endangered Atlantic salmon to …
Kennebec Dam Owners Sue Over Changes That Could Lead To Their Removal
For reference, Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. is a publicly-traded limited partnership that owns and operates power assets, with corporate headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It …
Dueling Dam Narratives
Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Thursday spoke out in opposition to U.S Rep. Mike Simpson’s $33.5 billion plan to remove four Lower Snake River dams …
69 Dams Removed in 2020
Despite the challenges of working through a pandemic, river restoration practitioners continued to pursue dam removal projects in 2020 to revitalize local economies and communities …
Dam removal time-lapse on Washington’s Middle Fork Nooksack River
In the summer of 2020 the dam on Washington’s Middle Fork of the Nooksack came down and Swiftwater Films captured it with a four-month time-lapse …
Europe’s rivers are broken, but there is a fix
An international team of researchers has found that the flow of Europe’s rivers and the movements of animals are impeded on average by more than …
Return to Us: Restoring Alaska’s Eklutna River
Return to Us chronicles the historic effort spearheaded by Eklutna, Inc. and The Conservation Fund to remove the abandoned Lower Eklutna Dam and kickstart the return of …
Army Corps Signs Off on Rindge Dam Removal
Removal of the 90-year-old Rindge Dam from Malibu Canyon—a long-anticipated, multi-million-dollar project—moved a crucial step closer to reality on Friday, Nov. 13, when the U.S. …
5 Reasons to Rethink the Future of Dams
The tide has shifted on dams. Once a monument to our engineering prowess, there’s now widespread acknowledgment that dam-building comes with a long list of …