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Environment & Energy

hunter

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4. The Glen Canyon Dam was an environmental disaster.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:47 PM

Jan 2018

It ought never been built.

Some day it will come down, hopefully by well-engineered demolition, not by catastrophic failure.

It almost failed in 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam

I'm indifferent to nuclear power, but I find dams loathsome and celebrate every time one is removed.

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A 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste lies under the waters and silt of Lake Powell [View all] SHRED Jan 2018 OP

No words. CrispyQ Jan 2018 #1

Oh please... NNadir Jan 2018 #2

I was with you for a while shanny Jan 2018 #3

Absolutely. VASTLY superior. NNadir Jan 2018 #5

Your premise only works if the sole alternative to nuclear is burning fossil fuels. shanny Jan 2018 #7

The suffering uranium miners in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah randr Jan 2018 #8

Do you have any idea of how many of these miners, subject of so many fetishes, there were? NNadir Jan 2018 #9

I commend you on your fervent stand against randr Jan 2018 #10

In my earnest opinion, a little demeaning is appropriate. NNadir Jan 2018 #11

The Glen Canyon Dam was an environmental disaster. hunter Jan 2018 #4

Is it too much to ask for clean air, food, and water? Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #6