Dams Making a Come Back

Along with the revival of nuclear power this isn't a surprise. The problem is that the greens have moved from energy source to energy source demonizing everything under the sun except "alternative" energy. Of course by shutting down Nuclear power plants and stopping dam construction the greens all but guaranteed a reliance on coal. Now they are telling us the planet will die because of coal and are trying to shut them down. In addition to power there is another key aspects to dams, control and access to fresh water, without which everything falls apart. So what was once demonized now is making a comeback:

IT WAS political theatre as usual. Two demonstrators from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) called International Rivers disrupted the opening ceremony of the fifth World Water Forum, a week-long gathering in Istanbul of the great and good who work on matters watery which concludes on Sunday March 22nd. The demonstrators unfurled a banner saying “No Risky Dams” in metre-high letters. They were detained and thrown out of the country.

It might have happened at any international gathering any time in the past ten years. Yet this time, the demonstration was misleading. Behind the scenes at the forum opposition was ebbing: dams are making a come back. “We need the water-storage capacity,” says Olcay Ünver, the co-ordinator of this year’s “Water Development Report”, a flagship publication of the conference. “We need more dams.”

Within the United States hydro produces the vast majority of our renewable energy resources a fact often ignored in the push to their them down.

Anyway you can't have your cake and it to, perhaps one day the green left will grasp that.