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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Different Transit Plans for Different Population Clusters
- Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Aug20165744@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 21:57:44 GMT
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- In-reply-to: dean@vexcel.com's message of 20 Aug 92 18:17:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.181758.29072@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska) writes:
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- In article <JMC.92Aug19185443@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Aug19.150702.29920@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bl713@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lev Tarasov) writes:
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- > Just for interest, Vancouver has faced lawn-watering bans this
- > year. The states have a lot of water, but a lot of it is wasted.
- > Some of the dam projects in Alberta(such as the OLDMAN river)
- > seem to make more sense for setting up a large-scale water-
- > diversion system to the states. The premier of Quebec has
- > long been associated with the grand-canal scheme: to dam up
- > Hudson's bay and blast a canal down to the great lakes for
- > US water usage. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to conserve
- > our resources than mutilate our watersheds?###
-
- >Mr. Tarasov likes words like "mutilate" that prejudice the issues he
- >purports to discuss.
-
- >How about "develop" instead? Then the answer wouldn't be obvious
- >and would actually be subject to discussion.
-
- Dams do tend to flood an area and drive out all of the wildlife in the
- area. I would suggest that mutilate would be more descriptive, and
- accurate, than develop.
-
-
- Why dingo! Damns tend to create beautiful, useful lakes,
- and severly reduce flooding downstream! While some mammals
- get displaced a few kilometers, and salmon can have difficulty
- unless helped by ladders, habitat opens for numerous birds, fish
- and insects, and the stabilisation of downstream flow alleviates
- ecological impact on downstream habitats due to drought/flood
- cycles... ;-)
- It all depends on how you look at it...
-
-
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