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Is the dam-age over? The growth of dam removals in America

Is the dam-age over? The growth of dam removals in America

Nov 25, 2020 | comment, Ecology, News, Politics and governance

By Barnaby Dye and François Edwards This week the BBC featured an article describing the largest-scale project of dam removal to date on the Klamath River in the Western USA. The project involves the gradual disassembling of four out of eight hydroelectric dams. These...

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