08 June 07 - 22:51Green Energy Conflicts with Paddlers

Did any of you see the May/June 2007 issue of Paddler Magazine? If you have not read it, but have access to the magazine, I strongly recommend you read the article as it documents a major dilemma of worthwhile competing goals. This is a very interesting story about the fight between kayakers and the local power authority who wanted encourage development of non-coal fire power plants and kayakers who fought a proposed project on their favorite Ashlu River in British Columbia. The project would not make the river as attractive and challenging to kayaking. Eventually the proposed non-dam project was approved and is now being constructed, but not without a long fight during which the process rules were changed after the kayakers thought they had won.

If you read this, which side do you generally agree with?

 Jim 

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