The #Oceans Are Missing Their #Rivers

For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the #sea. Then we came along.

By Erica Gies May 3, 2023

"In many places, the great culprit is the dam: a wall of concrete and stone bisecting a river, diverting its energy and water to human use. There are 58,000 'big dams'—50 feet high or taller—around the globe, with another 3,700 more planned, mostly in lower-income countries in Asia and South America.

"Many of the harms caused by dams are well-documented. They block fish passage and starve subsistence fishers; radically alter natural river regimes and aquatic creatures’ lifecycles; and flood forests, wetlands, villages, and historical sites. (They’re also less climate-friendly1 and reliable2 than is widely believed.) Now scientists are describing another impact that has received relatively little attention but appears to also be profound: Dams block #sediment-carrying river pulses into the ocean."

#Hydropower #QuebecHydro #Dams #Anthropocene #Rivers #FishPassage #Salmon #Flooding

Read more:
https://nautil.us/the-oceans-are-missing-their-rivers-302187/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

A pattern of government and corporate abuse! Who are they looking out for? Why profit! Don't believe the spin! #Greenwashing is just a PR gimmick!

Power Grab: #Quebec vs. the #Innu Nation

Behind the scenes, Quebec has fought for years to weaken Indigenous authority over their own land. Now that battle is spilling out into the public.

by Christopher Curtis, Mar 13, 2023

"The Innu territory is a sprawling landmass home to a rapidly declining herd of #caribou, some of the best #salmon fishing in North America and a people who’ve thrived there since time immemorial. It also happens to have vast deposits of rare metals and rivers wide enough to power our cities for generations."

#IndigenousNews #IndigenousRights #CulturalGenocide #Hydropower #NaturalResourcesCouncilOfMaine #NRCM #Avangrid #CMP #CleanEnergy #Forests #SaveTheForest #SaveMaineForests #Canada #FirstNations #Maine #QuebecHydro

Read more: https://rover.substack.com/p/power-grab-quebec-vs-the-innu-nation

#QuebecHydro green now; reservoirs= big CO2e first 20 years! Old Hydro works; new does not reduce #ghgemissions on needed time scale. @CanadianPM @POTUS @EuroGeosciences @EUCouncil #Alberta bad! @ABDanielleSmith @RachelNotley #cdnpoli @BillNye @mzjacobson @howarth_cornell @POTUS