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Hydropower from dams is the primary source of clean energy in Idaho, whose major power company has pledged 100% clean energy by 2045. But when dams threaten natural rivers and fish, can hydropower really count as clean?
Read the story at: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-09-26/tearing-down-dams-could-save-western-rivers-and-also-make-climate-change-worse
Watch more Repowering the West: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdgePvblfv97g93Fq6bstUTmj5w4E-igb&si=PMjzaX81WoKBIsUW
0:00 Intro
1:22 Hydropower - how it works
2:39 Fish hatcheries
3:07 Dams never should have been built
4:09 Lava Ridge Wind Farm
5:34 Minidoka National Historic Site opposition
7:38 Compromise
Follow the full Repowering the West series at https://www.latimes.com/projects/repowering-the-west/
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Hydropower from dams is the primary source of clean energy in Idaho, whose major power company has pledged 100% clean energy by 2045. But when dams threaten natural rivers and fish, can hydropower really count as clean?
Read the story at: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-09-26/tearing-down-dams-could-save-western-rivers-and-also-make-climate-change-worse
Watch more Repowering the West: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdgePvblfv97g93Fq6bstUTmj5w4E-igb&si=PMjzaX81WoKBIsUW
0:00 Intro
1:22 Hydropower - how it works
2:39 Fish hatcheries
3:07 Dams never should have been built
4:09 Lava Ridge Wind Farm
5:34 Minidoka National Historic Site opposition
7:38 Compromise
Follow the full Repowering the West series at https://www.latimes.com/projects/repowering-the-west/
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