The economic case for tearing down dams
ALLAN BONNER: Spending lots of money on hydroelectric projects in the hopes we’ll need the power in the future is a mug’s game, even for big projects
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Author: Allan Bonner
Get science out of the lab and onto the street to save lives
DEREK NG, DEBORAH PRABHU and ALLAN BONNER: We know good safety practices from our grandmother – but are we courageous and persistent enough to follow them?
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History’s industrial strategy haunts us today
ALLAN BONNER: Then came 50 years of dead fish, stagnant water, methylmercury poisoning, silt buildup and dams collapsing
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Fake news? Every era had its perpetrators
ALLAN BONNER: Early newspapers were often more interested in expressing the opinions of the owners than the facts
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Is dam removal the wave of the future?
ENVIRONMENT: Research suggests it makes more ecological and economic sense to dismantle dams than to restore or maintain them
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