The Mighty Columbia River (1947)

[@briane173]

Amazing to see the Columbia before The Dalles Dam was built, before the Astoria-Megler Bridge was built, before the breakwaters at the Columbia Bar were built. If you've lived here all your life since these structures were put in place you can't imagine what it was like before they existed - it's as if they were always there. As a collective public-works project, the Columbia River dams and estuary are an engineering marvel.

[@BrakerOfStones]

Wish I could see the falls once in my life, my fam came in 1853 and lived near them for nearly a century, lots of cool pics and stories. The only dam I wish to see removed.

[@sandilo60]

Was thinking the same thing!

[@ZEEKUPP]

@@Ashphinchtersayswhat Completed in 1954.

[@ZEEKUPP]

There may be Sturgeon in there that have been there before ANY of the dams were there. No one actually knows how long they live.

[@caliresester1784]

I was thinking the same thing…also include the Willamette’s bridges and crown point overlooking the gorge and I84 by the river either…this video is amazing thank you

[@daphnekivinen9482]

This is a great video. I was born in Vancouver, WA in 1947. My uncles worked at the fish canneries at Ellsworth on the Columbia River.

[@MrWiseinheart]

@@daphnekivinen9482 Live in Vancouver WA now and I'm wondering how it must have been such a small little city 1947.

[@daphnekivinen9482]

@MrWiseinheart My memory of Orchards area, BG, and Vancouver is very vivid in my mind. I am blessed with a good memory at my age. Orchards was a small Mom and Pop with a barbershop attached and a feed store with a turkey farm on the south of 4th Plain where McCord s is now. East of Orchards was Sifton store and where Ward Road meets 4th Plain was Y Tavern. I grew up in the Hockinson area where all the Finns and Swedes lived.

[@MrWiseinheart]

@@daphnekivinen9482 Ha what a coincidence that's where I'm residing now in the orchards area... I do go to the feed store from time to time to fill up my propane tanks, they have a new building now but the old one is still standing. Also have friends living in the Amboy area, Finn and Swedish descendants. Good health and many more blessed years to you!

[@daphnekivinen9482]

@MrWiseinheart Thank you! I wish the same to you.

[@mikehill3764]

I’ve worked on many rivers across the country. The Columbia was the most beautiful.

[@anterabeltran5990]

I love these old documentaries.

[@mathiasniemeier4359]

I also enjoy watching what was, and knowing how MAN DESTROYS ..GODS BEAUTIFUL EARTH. I AM OLD NOW. I HAVE LIVED NEAR THE RIVER MY WHOLE LIFE. I CRY SOMETIMES, REMBERING, WHEN ..my brother and I went fishing, swimming and you could still, DRINK THE WATER.! NOW I TRY TO tell MY children, grandchildren and great grandchildren about how LIFE WAS worth Living. Maybe I I AM just getting tried. GOD BLESS YOU. SHALOM P.S., there were a few BAD things that happened as well . Like the terrible discrimination against the INDIANS. That truly was SAD. GOD BLESS IN Jesus.

[@oh_knee7173]

If I was in school and they made me watch this I would hate it but I’m high as fuck in my bedroom and it’s awesome

[@denmorin]

An era of factual documentary and journalism with little to no agenda aside from educating and earning a paycheck.

[@desert.mantis]

Sorry Dan. This is a government propaganda film like all the others produced in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. What about the plentiful salmon runs that were obliterated by the Grand Coulee and other dams? Native Americans lost their traditional cultural and fishing sites, and even European settlers had to relocate their communities (e.g., Boardman, Arlington). I guess that's just the cost of doing business - that is, making $$.

[@daffyduck9901]

@@desert.mantis just another whining liberal

[@hughdunbar9823]

@@daffyduck9901 Dude that's a conservative victim if I ever heard one. Who the fuck is whining about the media bias all the time? Fuck you Troll.

[@hughdunbar9823]

@@daffyduck9901 You wish closet case.

[@heyman5525]

@@desert.mantisthere have been some serious and regrettable mistakes concerning the salmon and Native American stuff...but European settlers? 😂 This video is from 1947 not 1820.

[@Ch-ui6mw]

Holy COW! This narrator actually knows how to pronounce Willamette!!!!!!!!!!!! (Notice, it's not a stupid AI voice.)

[@markbroad119]

😂

[@fredhoy6697]

Thank goodness.

[@michaelcarroll2217]

Sounds like Mike Wallace .

[@DJW56]

​@@michaelcarroll2217,-- 👍🏾👍🏾. That's what I was wondering 🤔

[@drscopeify]

Great video, the Columbia Gorge itself is always an awesome sight on a clear day, you can see for many miles downstream at the right vantage point and hundreds of feet down. I was just crossing on the 82 and saw a barge going under the bridge, always something to feast your eyes on!

[@briane173]

The geological story of the river and its basin is nothing short of spellbinding. The entire PNW in fact. I can't begin to list them all but the scale of geomorphology in this area is almost impossible to wrap your head around.

[@ktothec24]

This was made before the Astoria bridge was built . Crazy to think of a time before then

[@1houndgal]

The Columbia Gorge was there long before most of human kind was there. So many millions of years. The Astoria bridge is infinitely younger structure before the Gorge Ever formed. Please look into the fascinating geology and geography of this fascinating area. It truly is amazing.

[@jeffreyhutchins6527]

@@1houndgal Thank you captain obvious

[@JohnMoore-qv4vn]

Roll on Columbia.

[@SeemaWrites1000]

Very useful video. To the point, and entertaining. Thank you.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

America was better when it was Whiter.

[@ZEEKUPP]

I was born a little after The Dalles Dam was completed so I was never able to see Celilo Falls except on post cards, video and pictures. The power of those rapids is amazing.

[@tackyman2011]

Love how they only filmed on sunny, calm days. Northwesterners know what I'm talking about.

[@catus69]

Yeah its always cloudy up here

[@catus69]

And windy

[@8ballgaming732]

Northeast over here chillin in the sunny days as usual lol

[@8ballgaming732]

And we still make wheaf

[@phillipmoore6249]

In Wenatchee it’s sunny 300+ days a year on average

[@PaulM_aka_4c21]

Visited Bonneville Dam and Portland in the 90’s, would love to visit again from the UK.

[@malikmcdowellswreckedatv5100]

The gloomy weather sucks up here but the beauty during summer is unlike anywhere else I’ve been to.

[@scottrobbins6216]

The Columbia is massive and powerful…

[@johncholmes643]

Chief Joseph, Wanapum, Rock island, John Day, The Dalles dam Mcnary, Rocky reach, Priest Rapids, Are all the dams that have been built since. You can only see whitewater and fast water at the dam spillway nowadays.

[@PunaSquirrel]

Opening in 1933, Rock Island was the first dam to span the Columbia River.

[@connorthompson4030]

I know it's sad.

[@mrj10101]

How wonderful

[@josephbaker4319]

I fish near the canadian border.....and even tho it still may be damned its still a pretty wild section up there

[@kylekeene3582]

@@josephbaker4319yep super fun area up there by northport

[@williamlloyd3769]

Fondly recall flying into Portland and driving up the Columbia River gorge to watch USC play Washington State on a Friday night and then driving back through Portland Saturday to catch an Oregon State game that evening. PAC12 doubleheader of sorts

[@jeffreyhutchins6527]

Portland to Pullman..Is a long drive.

[@henryashbridge3141]

i love living next to the mighty columbia

[@squamishfish]

The difference between the Columbia and the Fraser river is no dams were put on the Fraser do the Sturgeon and Salmon species in the Fraser are much more stable

[@whiskeymonk4085]

​@@squamishfishThe Stickeen blows the doors off the Fraser. Are we playing this one-up game? Because if so, you should throw in the towel. I was born and raised in Portland, 7th generation Oregon Trail pioneer descendant. Homesteaded in Alaska fo 20 years, and fished the Bering sea. Canoed the Fraser, rafted the Stickeen from Telegraph Creek, Motored the Columbia from it's mouth to the Canadian border. AAAAAKKKTCHUUUUAALLLY

[@verbotn]

The river starts at Columbia Lake by Fairmont Hot Springs in British Columbia, its such a humble little river at its origin. Initially it flows north prior to taking its southerly course. The narrator sounds like it was probably Mike Wallace, who was on 60 Minutes for so long

[@hughdunbar9823]

a friend of mine paddled the entire river from Fairmont to the ocean. It took months. Here's a link www.clairedibble.com/watershed

[@stevewilliams6354]

Nice video very interesting planning a visit

[@vince1638]

Just steer clear of Portland, a toilet now.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

If you are from California.... ACCESS DENIED!

[@MrWiseinheart]

​@@whiskeymonk4085🤣

[@RebaRichards]

Can’t even get into the river anymore

[@d.e.7467]

@@RebaRichards Windsurfers ask "since when?"

[@powderthumb5959]

Such a time capsule. The NW was hoping - farming, logging, fishing. All can come back if managed well and fairly.

[@sergeant_salty]

Roll on, Columbia🌊🌊🌊

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Roll on!

[@PunaSquirrel]

Roll on Columbia🤙🏼

[@spiritualservicesgodbless7641]

Thank you for the video.

[@davidsandall]

These two dams were major reasons we were able to win WW11. The electricity they produced made it possible for US to make military planes and vehicles much faster than other countries.

[@ronaldanderson6481]

and the processing of uranium ,

[@gillboardman8998]

World War Eleven?!?😮

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Swan Island! My granny was Rosey Riveter there.

[@carsinruin6102]

@@ronaldanderson6481Hanford was Plutonium and Los Alamos was uranium enrichment.

[@sodman1987]

We fought the wrong enemy- patton

[@American11B]

6:18 the building to the top right on the rock face is the Vista House at Crown Point. The footage was taken at Woman’s Forum. Down below at the river is Rooster Rock State Park.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

Rooster Rock was renamed from CockRock because of it's similar features.

[@MrWiseinheart]

​@@whiskeymonk4085was it really ? Kind of embarrassing if it was.. 😅

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@MrWiseinheart Totally serious. My grandfather born in 1906, raised on the Columbia, told me.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@MrWiseinheart Funny thing, there's a public nude beach there now.

[@MrWiseinheart]

@@whiskeymonk4085yeah you are right... I just looked it up the Chinook Indians called it straight up penis rock 🤣.

[@damonkupper5688]

As a local tour guide with PEAK Tours. It’s a beautiful glimpse into the area and the era of film’s production. Explore

[@gj5250]

What about the town of Wenatchee Washington state? Where the apples and pears grow so big and juice because of the Wenatchee River and the mighty Columbia. 😊

[@mountainman5292]

The guy counting fish - now he has a good job!

[@ghajepkre]

I’m glad we finally put that lazy river to work with the Grand Coulee. Been too long.

[@vf12497439]

All upbeat, no political spin or disparaging tones of climate change or evil locals raping the land. A nice documentary from an innocent time. ❤

[@HanasDad]

Lol! There are a couple of problems with this. First, these fish are clearly global warming deniers and should be cancelled. Also, 6:38 they meant to say "a few miles up the Willamette is the city of Portland... a major sh!thole of the Pacific Coast". There, I fixed it for ya!

[@robforrester3727]

Enjoying the lonely life, are we?

[@whiskeymonk4085]

​@@robforrester3727 So much better than Portland life. I'm seventh generation, born and raised. Family braved the Trail in 1857. I am THE self proclaimed authority on the matter.

[@robforrester3727]

@@whiskeymonk4085 so you - or one of your two profile names - are admitting that your word is no more interesting or important than anyone else's. Good.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@robforrester3727 Yaaaaawn. Say something interesting.

[@whiskeymonk4085]

@@robforrester3727 Yaaaaawn. Say something interesting.

[@bryonhills6172]

The big curve was caused by lava flow.

[@jjkaiser1954]

Is it part of the Columbia basalt plateau?

[@bryonhills6172]

@@jjkaiser1954 yes. The lava is up to 5 miles deep in some areas.

[@kimketchmark4991]

My grandfather help build the Bonneville dam 1938.

[@MLeago]

I think a ship could make it to the Dalles nowadays. Great to see the falls there.

[@DM-hw4cr]

The days before the salmon population dropped

[@MooseKnuckleMike]

Yeah, these days it’s more like “the days before the salmon where contaminated by nuclear radiation and waste”

[@uhadme]

restricted us from fishing... and allowed commercial fishermen permits to fish it out. now we pay for fish hatchery and stock nature artificially.. or there would be nothing.

[@100ghillie]

@@uhadme really is a tragedy...

[@PhotographybyTimWMoore]

Grand Coulee destroyed millions of salmon

[@PhotographybyTimWMoore]

Before the dams, millions of salmon migrated up the river to spawn

[@vickikent4723]

Odd that there is no mention of the first dam built on the Columbia River which is still working hard to this day. One of the tug boat in this film is on display at the Port of Morrow in Boardman OR.

[@robforrester3727]

You mean Grand Coulee? They mentioned it.

[@joeguerra8435]

It was an interesting shot to view the mouth of the Columbia and Pacific Ocean at Astoria BEFORE the Astoria-Megler Bridge was built. In 2024, it’s hard to imagine how the mouth of the Columbia River at Astoria ever even existed for so long, for the tens of millions of years, without the bridge.

[@googoo-gjoob]

3:47 what is the name of these falls? i cant make out what hes saying. id like to read about it.

[@leebarnes655]

I doubt he would understand it either, makes it sound like there is an N in the word but there isn't. The canal shown at 3:09 is under the water of the Dalles dam and also the Indian fishing spots. Celilo Falls and Celilo Canal underwater in 1957 where this film was made ten years before. I'm guessing he was reading it from a paper gone thru a filthy typewriter of those days and it's pronounced sea lie low. Say lil oh?

[@s.a.charles271]

Celilo Falls

[@googoo-gjoob]

@@leebarnes655 , thank you.... no wonder i couldnt locate it.

[@davidmihevc3990]

At least he pronounced Willamette right.

[@jasonwcoleman250]

I grew up fishing this area and never could find a drop-off on the depth finder. I'm pretty certain that celilo is completely silted in at this point.

[@robforrester3727]

I would have liked them to zoom in on the old bridges over Eagle Creek, behind Bonneville. Prior to I-84, those would have been much smaller.

[@donalddday7741]

use to live in the Dalles near the high school where my sister who is 10 years older graduated H S i started school there and brother was born there, remember going to the hydroplane races at the Dalles Dam, dad worked at the Safeway and the old Highway House nar and restaurant

[@MrWiseinheart]

Just delivereda load to The Dalles not too long ago beautiful drive, where are you residing now?

[@SuperOlds88]

Mike Wallace was a great narrator.

[@Thepriest39]

Old films like these must of had only one narrator.

[@MikeMarley-r9s]

The fish ladders at The Dalles Dam ,I have seen six foot salmon going through in the seventies.True story.

[@richardschaff8842]

Those weren't salmon. I believe you must have mistaken surgeon fish for salmon.

[@jayleeper1512]

The salmon are mostly gone now. Redfish lake in Idaho which got it’s name from it turning red from the red backs of the thousands of spawning salmon now has less than 100 fish per year able to make the trip.

[@ada-yw1bb]

​@jayleeper1512 : it's doing better now and still lots of salmon in the Columbia.

[@2170william]

​@@richardschaff8842 They could have very well have been salmon. Although such large salmon may be a rare sight these days and in this region, large salmon like that are still plentiful in Alaska. Have seen it myself.

[@archie34734]

Mike Wallace narrating.

[@M70ACARRY]

Is the salmon safe to eat nowadays?

[@jasonwcoleman250]

If you look in the WA fishing regs you'll see that none of the native fish on the Columbia are safe to eat. You'd probably be fine if they detoxed in the Pacific.

[@M70ACARRY]

@@jasonwcoleman250 sad! I figured as much.

[@CODENAMEDERPY]

@@M70ACARRY They are actually pretty safe to eat if the fish itself doesn't show signs of sickness. We've caught and eaten many over decades and we've had no health problems. (we always cook them but I don't think it would change the problem)

[@eddymcadams9438]

I wouldn't count on that

[@BrotherMichaeloftheCross]

There now is a big bridge connecting washington to Astoria.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Grand coulie killed the largest salmon in the world. June hogs. 100+ lb chinook salmon. Entire gravel beds of spawning habitat.

[@mayamachine]

Now the proof is in, chemicals in car tires is killing the salmon, no one doing anything about it.

[@leebarnes655]

Giant salmon- large enough to feed 100 people- accidentally discovered in in Tasman district kzbin.info/www/bejne/eom9cqyBhZt0baM Meanwhile the klamath run dies at near 100% today kzbin.info/www/bejne/jX_CeWl4arSfeZo

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Lee Barnes yeah those salmon aren’t that big. Some bullshit

[@jaykay8570]

@@MatanuskaHIGH Fool. You've never caught a salmon, or even gotten laid. Yet you know so much.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

I’m going dipnetting kenai river next week. Google it.

[@tomdarco2223]

Right On

[@kilcar]

The dam is the most beautiful thing. Utterly clean electric energy at the least cost

[@JoseFernandez-qt8hm]

Nothing about the Hanford nuclear processing plants.....

[@jasonwcoleman250]

What about em? It was probably still secret when this came out. I grew up around that area in the 90's and the secrets were still surfacing even then.

[@mochiebellina8190]

secret

[@Showboat_Six]

Also I am old enough to remember the beautiful Columbia Gorge beauty before those damn ugly windmills destroyed the once beautiful scenic landscape!!!

[@andyevans2336]

Yeah! And all of those stupid dams that block all of the beautiful rapids and pools.

[@jaik195701]

When they quit working, they’re gonna be left there, silent sentries of past idiocy

[@brizotm]

What, you'd rather a coal stack and endless clouds of noxious poison? Or better yet, 75 square miles of solar panels to equal a single 1000MW power plant? I hate hypocrites. You type your snarky, ignorant reply on devices powered by those very wind turbines and hydro dams using enormous amounts of data processed in datacenters fed by those same resources. You suck.

[@andyevans2336]

@@Showboat_Six @brizotm Man! Do you miss the boat. You too seem to be enjoying the lowest power rates in the nation. My point was and is that there will always be tradeoffs. I miss Celilo falls and the vernita area before the dams went in, but I prefer to not need nuclear power too.

[@robforrester3727]

I'll never understand you weirdos who hate windmills.

[@RebaRichards]

We really had paradise, didn’t we

[@bradybenton67]

Hello from Robson BC🇨🇦right on the Columbia river , just below THE HI ARROW DAM

[@bill3641]

Who narrated this film? , he sounds very familiar.

[@faxRfax]

Now kids, take out a sheet of paper. Number it 1 -10. We're gonna have a quiz.

[@JS-gf6uc]

Before Rocky Reach Dam near Wenatchee.

[@juliecramer7768]

Very interesting!

[@MikeMarley-r9s]

I have heard of scary big sturgeon and catfish right behind The Dalles Dam by divers who inspect it's integrity.

[@jimischulz]

Within 2 years after the Bonneville dam was built all 22 salmon canneries were closed due to lack of fish.

[@johnpage6174]

Sounds like Mike Wallace was the narrator

[@jordanfrisky8934]

What about the salmon

[@onebridge7231]

Ah yes, 1947 before Portland became the dumpster fire that it is today!

[@kylealexander7024]

Meanwhile ur house is an RV

[@opencarry3860]

The wife and I went up to the top of Beacon Rock in August of 2024 and I decided to open carry on that hike knowing the freedom to do so might not be there in the near future since Washington state is becoming California.

[@audiovoyage5317]

1947 in color?

[@jjkaiser1954]

Yes. Gone With the Wind was made in the thirties and it was in color!

[@MikeMarley-r9s]

I have family in The Dalles.

[@zenobiaw831]

And this was the beginning of the end of the beautiful and great Columbia River.

[@robertrogers7331]

Mike Wallace for sure

[@mikemarley2389]

I remember seeing 8ft salmon going up the ladders at The Dalles dam in the 70s.My friend had his arm broke trying to tag a three ft salmon.

[@diane8937]

Pretty sure your 8 footer was sturgeon, not salmon.

[@mrj10101]

BS

[@bman778]

it was really built to powr hanford

[@mrbeaverstate]

1 year later the Vanport flood.

[@hooligan2005]

Sounds like Mike Wallace

[@elconquistadorism]

👍👍🤘🤘

[@juliecramer7768]

Whenever the narrator says Portland I think of riots

[@TooDeepItHurts]

Funny how much the media controls what you see. I live in Portland. What riots?! 😂😂😂

[@juliecramer7768]

@@TooDeepItHurts Oh, I guess it’s a small portion of Portland.

[@susanfaber2595]

All I can think of no fish to feed the people due to the dam dams

[@AuRowe]

@@susanfaber2595 For me its this and the riots but ye sad times

[@drewwolf2591]

@@susanfaber2595 damn dams?

[@drewwolf2591]

Why are there dislikes?

[@elroyeolsonjr8729]

Because some people still understand the good out weighs the bad

[@cravenmoorehead7099]

What if it was the “grand culo” dam?

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

"Damn!"

[@sergeant_salty]

the Grand Culo Daayyyuummmm

[@swimbait1]

A once great river mostly destroyed

[@juliecramer7768]

Nah

[@gregoryreese8491]

It’s a trade off, absolutely. But I doubt most human’s in the area would be willing to forgo electricity, so what are the choices? Coal powered generation is, IMO, far worse, not just from the CO2 created by burning, but all the consequences from mining. Nuclear? The prospect of a single disaster, even once in a thousand years, one which which would result in thousands of square miles of area rendered unfit for habitation for millennia, a far as I can see makes it, the worst possible choice. So now what? Solar and wind (wind of course has proven to pose some danger to birdlife) both combined can't, given the current state of technology, provide but a small fraction of what we now use. Perhaps fifty or a hundred years into the future, assuming people are still around, we’ll have found the perfect solution, I’m guessing geothermal will figure into it; but for now, can you suggest a preferable alternative to hydroelectric generation?

[@carey_metv]

@@juliecramer7768 it is destroyed there used to be 100 pound + chinook salmon. Because of the dams that gene pool is long gone.

[@AuRowe]

@@carey_metv sad :(

[@atomicwedgie8176]

@@carey_metv I'm sure the indians released them all when netting year-a-round!

[@cavscout678]

We used to be a proper country.

[@MarkWoodChannel]

Love how they only filmed starting in the US, if I'm Canada I'm building a massive dam.

[@hughdunbar9823]

"it begins in Canada, but who cares about that northern wasteland? Lets take a look starting in the centre of the universe, the USA"

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

ไม้​ แร่​ หิน​ ได้เท่านั้น

[@jacobaccurso]

A story of tragedy. I think there should be a law that says no one can build close enough to a river to become flooded. Flooding isn’t evil. Damming a river to prevent floods so that people can build in a flood plane… That’s evil.

[@eleanormattice3598]

Remove the lower 4 Snake river dams that keep endangered salmon from reaching prime habitat in the Snake watershed. The dams are expensive and antiquated. We have new ways of transportation and energy manufacturing. Save the salmon!

[@sawatisbillings8759]

AGREED! totally

[@elroyeolsonjr8729]

Funny how you talk jiberish about taking out dams with fish ladders but don't say anything about taking out the ones without fish ladders

[@davefransen5096]

Every town along the river would flood out. The whole town of The Dalles would flood before the Dam was put in.

[@eleanormattice3598]

@@davefransen5096 THis is Eleanor Mattice. Yes, rivers flood ... that's how water is cleaned is soaking down through the soil in a floodplain. We should be ready for floods anyway. The flooding will affect many areas all over the world. Look at Europe at this time!

[@berthelman1504]

the greatest--Swimbait1

[@thegamechanger7157]

We got lucky

[@billrobbins5874]

Was this filmed in the 60's?

[@bryonhills6172]

1947

[@markbroad119]

There are about 7gallons in 1 cubic foot

[@carsinruin6102]

Now the beautiful views of the Columbia river gorge are littered with ugly, wasteful and essentially useless windmills.

[@robforrester3727]

Sure. You probably get some of your electricity from those "essentially useless" windmills. And how are they wasteful? Or "ugly?"

[@carsinruin6102]

@ We had one of the most beautiful scenic areas in the country and you think windmills made it nicer? And they only exist because builders were incentivized to build them through subsidies. They don’t make economic sense otherwise. If all windmills stopped working today the grid would have enough power through nuclear and hydro power to be fine. They are a waste of resources and require frequent maintenance. And those giant blades can’t be recycled, they project 2 million tons of windmill blades will go into landfills over the next 20 years! So yeah, wind power is stupid wish fulfillment for environmentally conscious idiots.

[@robforrester3727]

@@carsinruin6102 I'm not certain where you think any nuclear power is coming from in the NW (we got rid of it; turns out no one ever figured out what to do with the waste), and just about everyone else on here agrees that hydropower kills way too many fish. So maybe just maybe harvesting wind power out in those places where pretty much all they have is wind isn't such a bad idea. All of your reasons against them are twaddle, and where you actually get specific -toward the end there - I'd love to see your source.

[@carsinruin6102]

@ Energy Northwest has active reactors. Too lazy to research? Hydropower doesn’t kill “too many” fish, that’s propaganda. Very few fish ever enter the turbine and the DOE reports 98% survival if they do. As to everything else, look it up yourself, it’s easy to find. Read environmental impact studies done on solar and wind farms. It’s horrid. Windmills are ugly, take up too much space, have big carbon footprints. Nuclear is the future. Modular reactors are amazing and there are new nuclear fuels being tested. So until cold fusion hits the market 🤷‍♂️

[@barkeyes8592]

The world was doing just fine without the damn Dam. 😅

[@t.a.hurliman5000]

When Nesara is implemented here in the USA, all damns on all rivers will be removed.

[@drscopeify]

They mean critical rivers not the Columbia river of course, the dams provide all of the electricity and very clean and cheap also massive floods are prevented by the dams that would make Portland area under water so they are not going anywhere I can promises you that.

[@GordoCooper-v3v]

You should do a story on how ISIS has threatened to blow up the hydro dams in Canada recently. What the impact would be on the overall environment and what the emergency action plan is. Next take a look at what the department of homeland security would do to Canadian judges and authorities that let ISIS members free....

[@PeterRichardsandYoureNot]

And in 2025 our green governor wants to destroy these amazing engineering works to save salmon despite the fact that studies show removing these dams being re iced would NOT make a difference in salmon count. But hey, at least we will get electricity to jump at least 300% when we get rid of natural gas and coal fired power plants too! Great planning works for everyone….how it works for you is very subjective !!

[@tommymccaffery2025]

fast forward to 2025, different story now

[@scottcampbell6617]

NORTHWEST corner of Washington.

[@davefransen5096]

What's the point in this comment? Northwest corner of Washington would be up by Canada

[@colleenkennedy1934]

NorthEAST

[@diane8937]

NW corner of Oregon, he meant.

[@robforrester3727]

...is where Seattle is...

[@jacobreed5853]

Couldnt watch past seeing Celilo falls. Its a crime how the government destroyed Celilo.

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

สำรวจเป็น100รอบ

[@releventhurt]

What u saying to me

[@pancakeface5717]

A wonder and tragedy of human engineering. Not a river, today, a chain of artificial lakes.

[@diane8937]

Then you haven't been on it!

[@pancakeface5717]

@@diane8937 Huh?

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

ป่าหวายโอนให้ใคร

[@GeorgeWHaydukeIII6396]

It was sure nice of god to make all these wonderful things for us to use and exploit. I'm so glad I'm a human being, and therefore can do whatever I want, to whomever I want. There is so much for us humans to abuse and destroy on this bountiful globe. What will we destroy next?

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

ไฟฟ้าไม่มีใช้ได้ไง

[@scorpion19142001]

With 60 damn, and the power Pacific Ocean, Should there be an earthquake ever occur. Power flush. There will be nothing to stand its way.