Green Options » penobscot river http://greenoptions.com/tag/penobscot-river Posts tagged 'penobscot river' Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:10:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Conservationists to Purchase and Destroy Two Maine Dams http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/28/conservationists-to-purchase-and-destroy-two-maine-dams/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/28/conservationists-to-purchase-and-destroy-two-maine-dams/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:10:04 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/08/28/conservationists-to-purchase-and-destroy-two-maine-dams/ Through a combination of federal grants and private donations, a coalition of seven conservation groups called the Penobscot River Restoration Trust have gathered enough money to purchase and demolish two dams and install a fish bypass on another. By doing so, they hope to replenish the thinning Atlantic salmon, river herring, and many other migratory fish populations.

While the move is unprecedented, it is not without some flaws.

The PPL Corporation, the power company which currently owns the dams, currently has no plans to replace the lost power with a new sustainable source. Instead it has increased the output from three up-river dams and intends to reactivate the turbines on another currently inactive dam…

[Read the rest of this entry at CleanTechnica.]

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