CANADA: 'Hydro Power is breaking our hearts'

[Denny]

It isn't all negative in Canada:
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bw at barrk.net (BlackWater) wrote in message news:<40fe7c45.13247448 at news.east.earthlink.net>...
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:11:50 -0700, "Jeff Strickland"
> <beerman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >"Fresno Farms" <brutus at u.com> wrote in message
> >news:10fomt1ha98ufe1 at corp.supernews.com...
> >>
> >>   People see "pretty" mountain reservoirs and don't think
> >> much about it.  But building a reservoir results
> >> in 100% habitat destruction.  Typically, reservoirs
> >> (to maximize water volume) are built on rare "flats" and
> >> meadow areas, which are extremely important biodiversity areas.
> >>    Thus due to the rare topography, reservoirs are often
> >> located on critical migration routs (deer and such) and
> >> (say,) fawning areas.  Deer drowning mortality rates alone
> >> can be high enough to wipe out a deer population within
> >> a few years.  And of course, no more timber, into the
> >> foreseeable foture.
> >>
> >
> >Deer drowning!? We have a new reservior in our area, it was built similiarly
> >to the scenario you suggested, flat land surrounded by hills. I have to take
> >exception to your assertion that deer drown as a result. We haven't got deer
> >around here, but it took YEARS to fill the reservior, certainly the deer
> >would have migrated away long before they were required to learn to swim.
> >Not only did it take years to fill, it took a decade to build. Surely the
> >deer (if there were any) would have moved on long before they drown.
> 
>    Really. Every deer I've ever seen is equipped with LEGS,
>    devices which greatly facilitate migration away from
>    rising water. Apparenly, we're supposed to believe that
>    Canadian deer are SO stupid and unadaptive that they
>    will mindlessly follow an old migration route even IF it
>    leads through the middle of a lake. Maybe if you get
>    'em to chug a lot of Molsons first ... 
> 
>    These are the same kind of folks who were convinced that
>    the trans-Alaska pipeline would cause herds of caribou
>    to stop dead in confusion. Instead, the animals couldn't
>    tell a pipeline from a really tall felled tree and simply
>    walked under it. 
> 
>    His complaints about 'habitat destruction' are also a bit
>    hollow. Yep, it destroys some LAND habitat - but creates
>    a water and wetlands habitat in its place. If they don't
>    take it to excess, I'd call that an even trade. 
> 
>    Oh well, I guess Canadians will have to skip on hydro
>    power - and instead burn gigaton quantities of COAL
>    instead. Now THAT ought to be good for the wildlife.
>    Or, maybe, all Canadians should just evacuate the 
>    area completely - turn it into a gigantic wildlife
>    refuge ? Let 'em move to the Mexican desert. Well,
>    they might tread on some endangered gila monster or
>    something ... so I guess suicide is the only answer.