A dam no more 

yo bro me too

Me too I started watching 3 videos ago cuz I saw jerry on the eel

Not a hippie but definitely enjoying these types of documentaries

Great job. Now those 16,000 homes can use fossil fuels.

Ha ha! Same here! I saw one video about 4 videos ago and now I’m hooked. I didn’t know this was a thing. Nor did I ever think about the negative impacts that dams have on our fish populations.

60 years ago my cousins, brother, and I would use a firecracker to blast a hole in our "dam". Strangely, none of us went into civil engineering, though my brother did become a geologist.

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Me too. There back.

This is marketing, not a documentary. Look at what a great company we are!!! Had there not been an endangered species in the river they would have never taken any action.

@@ShainAndrews and why should they if there wasn't an andangered species 🤔, everyone is a critic, maybe go without electricity for a couple of weeks

@@bleachinuri Because doing the right thing when nobody is looking is the proper measure of character. Me no electricity... not an issue. I spend weeks in the wilderness on horseback. Your criticism is noted.

@@ShainAndrews good for you, I don't trust people that are to kind or to goody 2 shoes, that's not human nature and if your too good your hiding something 😉 😜.

This river just don't give a dam.

Moron.

Cry elsewhere. Stop breeding Thanks 😉😎

That causes problems. NO, we don't want you to. I LIVE HERE.

it's a free country, you should try it.

@@0649Hayes Go Phuck yourself Socialist Antifa lover!

@@joelcrunk651 well that escalated quickly

panning is relatively harmless to the environment, but it should be regulated. If you are successful, thousands will come searching for their fortune. The cost to the environment could be great if not peoperly regulated

Liberals don't understand that ALL forms of energy have high prices on the environment, inc solar and wind, and the latter two forms are more feel-good toys at this point, capable of only a tiny fraction of our energy needs.

That was Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) not Portland General Electric (PGE). No relation to Erin Brockavich.

The small amount of electricity from that dam is easily replaced by wind power from the Columbia River Gorge area and from areas east of the Cascade Range where the wind blows strongly fairly consistently.

@@bearinmind50 I've edited my post to remove the incorrect info. Thank you for pointing that out and being civil while doing so. I stand corrected.

Not many people on the internet wanna admit they are wrong, especially so humbly. Keep the healthy spirit alive friend.

@@azure6729 Thank you.

Do you have any dam questions?

I am your dam guide

DEFINITELY... Got H2S POISONING IN 2010... WORKING FOR THE PARK CITY SEWER DISTRICT !

LICKHER&STICKHER INTHEPINK I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE YELLING, BUT YOU'RE LUCKY YOU MADE IT OUT ALIVE.

It’s likely he’s actually smelling methane (swamp gas)

skunkhome agree on it being “swamp gas”, but methane is odorless in nature. There probably was some sort of sulfur released seeing as Mt Hood lay upstream

did you have a stroke whilst typing this?

@@breakcoregivesmewo0od611 yeah

I wonder what the evviros who brought the lawsuits that closed this and other hydro electric dams think replaced the power that was lost? I suspect it wasn't wind or solar.

To save the salmon, a keystone species, you have to balance species survival against hydro power. They both cant win.

Hydro power does not produce much CO2, but a dam pretty much shuts down an entire ecosystem.

It benefits humans and that's the problem environmentalists have. Environmentalism is dreadfully anti-human, anti-prosperity, and anti-industry.

Mercury poisioning, its fatal and it dont get better😮

paradoxed Hahaha... Chevy to the Levee but the levee was dry... that old chestnut.

Lol

Brad Martin now i get it 🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️😂

Oh brudda

I would like to see what happening to the area down river. I'm sure it created more habitats for wifelife

Our society is built on concrete, unless you want to go back to a hunter gatherer society we NEED concrete!

Yeah, All by itself.

AGREED

Primacord is not wire. It is an explosive in it's own rite. You can take primacord and tie into a ball of knots and you have now just built your own home made bomb. Now ignite it, and see what happens. There are different types with their own ignition mechanisms.

Yea the blowing up part is the best -

You tuned in lately. Portland is very “likable”. If there is a Portland left.

@@Stillnonofya you need to stop tuning in to CNN then. They are blowing this whole ANtifa thing out of proportion just like the rest of MSM. MSM is food for Sheep.

If ya all want it wild and free tear down Portland next and return it to the wild natural place it once was.

It's all about trade offs my friend

Robert K everything but the OMSI

yes bend over. same thing in illinois

Well and not only that the panels are only 18% efficient the best of them are we found that out when we went to go install solar on our house. Our situation is perfectly posed for constant sunlight all day long from the time the sun comes up this time the sun goes down we would have sunlight pretty much three-quarters of the year and even on snowy days we would get patches of sunlight so we'd only have to have a small battery Bank we don't use a lot of electricity but we'd have it set up for a washer and dryer refrigerator Luckily the heat, stove and hot water heater are gas. There is also a supplemental wood heavy duty warming Style with power blower fireplace insert which uses minimal wood 2 heat the ceramic plates. What we found out was that the use of solar panels would leave us dependent upon the electric company for good we would not make enough energy off the sun no matter if we were 24/7 on the sun because of their inefficiency. We thought about doing the little wind turbines but because we get really serious wind and the trees you can't guarantee that something won't bust them up flying pinecones limbs needles squirrels I went ahead and just said the stick with what we've got. Are fireplace produces practically no emissions as we have a scrubber on it we use very little heating as where our house is smaller we always keep rooms that we don't use closed we have excellent insulation, a special custom built window installations for winter that are removed and replaced with Summer wait I enjoyed making those but it's just crazy some of the stuff people expect us to do when really all it is is a fraud.

@@valiantsfelinesmccarty6678 First of all, solar panels can reach a maximum efficiency of about 34% at the moment. Secondly, what a stupid argument. If you talk about this efficiency, it is the efficiency of the solar cells to convert sunlight directly into electricity, so it cannot even be compared to hydroelectricity or wind-energy. Both are (indirectly) ultimately powered by the sun, hydroelectricity through condensation and rain and wind energy through the movement of air which is also caused by the sun. If you would calculate how much sun energy is needed to provide you with enough water to get the same amount of energy it would be more than you need for solar panels. And finally, even the best plants only have a "solar energy to biomass conversion rate" of 2%, multiply that by 0.1 for every trophic level to find out that your beefburger has an energy efficiency of about 0.02%.

@alison webster maybe they don't let you get the better quality in my country we have investigated it and you know what if you want to believe the lies go ahead. I don't need to move to the city. I barely use any electricity as it is so it's not a big problem for me. What I don't like is the lies. But go ahead brainwashed

@@donaldbrown7252 Currently in IL we are subsidizing nuclear plants. They should build some natural gas powered ones to replace the power generated and shut them down.

well the powerhouse that the dam helped supply with water was only able to produce enough electricity (22 Megawatts) for 12,000 homes. Compare this to the dams along the Columbia river and the respective tributaries generate 29 Gigawatts as of 2012 (the dam featured was taken out in 2007-2008) which can power roughly 21 million homes assuming standard electrical usage. So the dam was likely a drop in the bucket compared to where most Portland General Electric customers got their power from.

@@alex-marquette You are correct. The direction is efficiency of money. There is no advantage to having many smaller generators when a few will do the job by simply modifying the distribution system. Other than that, the destruction of the smaller generators includes a lot of tax and cash flow benefits.

So have crews of beavers now shown up and starting modifying the river to their own liking?

No cities, very little population and small farms and hunting. You want to go back to that time in our society, I really doubt it!

in that case why remove the dam? gravity is one of the best power sources. they removed it i guess because Nature didn't found a way so it had to be helped.

@@rasenche4562 - I guess you didn’t see the movie “Jurassic Park”

Looks like another toy for university lunatics who have no real idea of what they are doing, don’t know what their work should produce and just wasting tax payers money for some fun! Typical of self assumed geniuses who can’t make it in the real world where results actually means something. Me thinks since it’s Oregon I wonder how much Dope was smoked to get rid of the dam and produce this video?

@alison webster I've got a BS in environmental science and I totally agree with the previous comment. Washing all sediment down stream probably did more damage to the rivers fish habitat than you can imagine. The buildup happened over time and the fish adapted to it and the ladder. The sediment just killed multiple generations of salmon.

You are the joke. Its obvious you know nothing about the salmon or this area. Stfu!!!

Ok but where u gonna get power for an all electric world which we are moving more towards. I guess it's back to coal which is more deadly than a dam would be

patrick Zink There are renewable sources that don't harm the environment nearly this much.

@@patrickzink2191 The goal is to reduce the size of the middle and working classes. Therefore, the powers that be won't allow coal to take the place of these hydro plants. They're moving to green energy _(sustainable development),_ which will lead to higher costs of goods/services, fewer jobs etc.

@@Studio23Media Does your 'environment' include birds and bats?

Not You Yes. And despite what conspiracy theories you believe, windmills are not bird killing machines. Stop believing nonsense

Sorry, did I miss the bit where Nat McDougal said they were doing this for free? Really? You don't stick that much kit and manpower into a job for nothing.

One way or another, we paid for it’s construction AND demolition. Never under-estimate the power of the American tax-dollar!

only one problem with the save the fish philosophy,dams like around here were built to protect people from killing floods that kept happening over and over,and theres no better way to generate electricity than dams, think about it nuclear??? really we don't know of any safe way to deal with the radioactive waste that will be deadly for thousands of years, wind no way in the near future thats gonna supply enough electricity to even break even on the cost of them ugly assed things, solar ??? battery systems are about as toxic as nuclear. electricity by water is still our best option,and guess what we have more species of fish in the dammned area than we had before.

Going to have to do a lot more than remove a few dams. When the earth's population has gone from 6 billion to 8 billion in 23 years (6 billion Oct 12 1999 to 8 billion Nov 15 2022) there's a HUGE problem! Most of that growth has occurred in Africa, where they can't grow enough food to feed their populations but keep having children like they were still dying from disease and starvation!

Indian nets are catching even more fish,!

Nuclear......and coal.

The fish are protected so eat one & go to jail - look at one w/ mean eye & get a fine..

@@zabaleta66 fuck coal, it’s the single worst thing that’s ever happened to our atmosphere. we will be underwater in 100 years if we keep using coal.

Cheap electricity? Not going to happen. It will be the overlords living like kings and the rest of us will be their slaves.

Great….take out all of the dams then you can buy power from California’s Three New Nuclear power plants and those are just for the 35,000,000 cars and trucks to recharge their battery’s. So in reality California will really need at least 12 nuclear power plants.

@@alanwomack5055 You should leave since you don't like the greatest country on the planet.

@@Sum_Tings_Wong I fought for America in Vietnam in the years 1970 and 1971. So take your Chinese ass and go to hell.

...... More like 3 windmills? This very small project is just that. 12MW is a rounding error in an electrical grid.

@@herpnderpn2484 12MW was the start of the Texas disaster that killed power to a third of the country, same for the NE one.

it was demolished back in 2007-2008. So the area is well over 10 years past when the dam was removed. With this removal they also got rid of Roslyn Lake that was created with this dam and the Little Sandy Dam as well. So it's on track to become what it used to look like before the dam.

The dam still isn't there.

@@stacymirba1433: Lol. True but the water is.

the hydro it produced has been replaced by a coal plant.

@@barrym4079 No it hasn't. We have only one coal fired plant and it's many miles further up the gorge. I'm sure the power that was needed to replace this dam was MORE than handled by solar and wind generators that are already exceeding the needs of Pacific Power and Light. They are winding down the c.f. plant!

Sounds like Thailand needs to stop breeding so much, slow down their population growth.

"In tears?" May I suggest a mental health consultation?

Yale University courses

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...GO HAWKS!!!!!

Our economy does. You can't remove all the infrastructure that supports modern society and go back to the old ways without reverting society back to those old ways.

Dam. Damn is what you say when you stub your toe!

Just wait they will remove those dams as well then what oh and no more days at that lake

How can it be in your neighborhood? You state people come up from the "48". This is not Alaska. Uh Oregon ring a bell in you're hollow head??

Yup! Isn't it GRAND?

And why is that? Obviously you know nothing about wood stave pipelines? Learn about them before shooting your mouth off.

Nope. This area has very little if any Au.

I'm still trying to find some gold in the colorado mountain creeks via 2in keene backpack dredge,get bout 4 5gal buckets of "black sand" and u MIGHT get 1-8 flakes of "glitter" tiny tiny bits of gold(I know I'm not missing anything)

I was reading that like you were offering, like you had it set up in your shed or something

You do realize that this river flows into the Columbia River, not the Colorado river. Further the state of Oregon doesn't even rely on the Colorado river for anything along with this river is the melt runoff of snow on Mt. Hood. Also the Colorado river is drying up for reasons that affect the states along the river. Which the biggest factor is that we are relying on river in that area that was over estimated to it's capacity and the climate changing where there is less snowfall (and subsequently less runoff) occurring where the river originates.