The Current Magazine Winter 2015 | Page 10

BREAKING NEWS

"Lost in the rhetoric are the basic facts of the four dams: they are privately owned and operated by a corporation that wants to remove them, in contrast to the federally-owned dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers; they provide no water for irrigation and only negligible hydroelectric power; and, the cost of their removal would not be borne by taxpayers."

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