Instead of using fossil fuels, we’re told to use “clean” energy: wind, solar, or hydropower.
Hydro is the most reliable. Unlike wind and sunlight, it flows steadily.
But now, environmental groups want to destroy dams that create hydropower.
“Breach those dams,” an activist shouts in my new video. “Now is the time, our fish are on the line!”
The activists have targeted four dams on the Snake River in Washington state. They claim the dams are driving salmon to extinction.
It’s true that dams once killed lots of salmon. Pregnant fish need to swim upriver to have babies, and their babies swim downriver to the ocean.
Suddenly, dams were in the way.
Salmon population dropped sharply.
But that was in the 1970s.
Today, most salmon make it past the dam without trouble.
How?
Fish-protecting innovations like fish ladders and spillways guide…
