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Yale Environment 360: Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution. In many places, such as the U.S. East Coast, hydroelectric dams have damaged the ecological integrity of nearly every major river and have decimated runs of migratory fish.
This need not continue. Our rivers can be liberated from their concrete shackles, while also continuing to produce electricity at the site of former hydropower dams. How might that occur? A confluence......
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Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source
Posted by Yale Environment 360: John Waldman and Karin Limburg on August 6th, 2015
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