Download or read book Public Power Private Dams written by Karl Boyd Brooks and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, the world’s biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a referendum not only on public-power expansion but also on the environmental implications of the New Deal’s natural resources and economic policy. Private-power critics of the Hells Canyon High Dam posed difficult questions about the implications of damming rivers to create power and to grow crops. Activists, attorneys, and scientists pioneered legal tactics and political rhetoric that would help to define the environmental movement in the 1960s. The debate, however, was less about endangered salmon or threatened wild country and more about who would control land and water and whether state enterprise or private capital would oversee the supply of electricity. By thwarting the dam’s construction, Snake Basin irrigators retained control over water as well as economic and political power in Idaho, putting the state on a postwar path that diverged markedly from that of bordering states. In the end, the opponents of the dam were responsible for preserving high deserts and mountain rivers from radical change. With Public Power, Private Dams, Karl Brooks makes an important contribution not only to the history of the Pacific Northwest and the region’s anadromous fisheries but also to the environmental history of the United States in the period after World War II.
Download or read book Dam written by John Warfield Simpson and published by Random House of Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively study of America's first environmental battle describes how, in 1913, Congress authorized the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam and Reservoir within the bondaries of Yosemite National Park, chronicling the intrigues that surrounded the project, profiling participants in the debate, and the implications of Hetch Hetchy for American attitudes toward environmental stewardship. 10,000 first printing.
Download or read book Bureau of Reclamation written by Interior Department and published by Reclamation Bureau. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "
Download or read book Dams Dynamos and Development written by Toni Rae Linenberger and published by Reclamation Bureau. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation's hydropower program in the Western United States.
Download or read book Public Power private Life written by Alex Radin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wired Northwest written by Paul W. Hirt and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region's first century of electrification, Paul Hirt's new study reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Hirt shows that every energy source comes with its share of costs and benefits. Because Northwest energy development meant river development, the electric power industry collided with the salmon fishing industry and the treaty rights of Northwest indigenous peoples from the 1890s to the present. Because U.S. federal agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built many of the large dams in the region, a significant portion of the power supply is publicly owned, initiating contentious debates over how that power should best serve the citizens of the region. Hirt dissects these ongoing battles, evaluating the successes and failures of regional efforts to craft an efficient yet socially just power system. Focusing on the dynamics of problem-solving, governance, and the tense relationship between profit-seeking and the public interest, Hirt's narrative takes in a wide range of players-not only on the consumer side, where electricity transformed mills, mines, households, commercial districts, urban transit, factories, and farms, but also power companies operating at the local and regional level, and investment companies that financed and in some cases parasitized the operators. His study also straddles the international border. It is the first book to compare energy development in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. Both engaging and balanced in its treatment of all the actors on this expansive stage, The Wired Northwest helps us better understand the challenges of the twenty-first century, as we try to learn from past mistakes and re-design an energy grid for a more sustainable future.
Download or read book Washington Public Power Supply System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining, Forest Management, and Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Columbia River Power and the Northwest written by United States. Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amending Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 Transferring Jurisdiction of Hydroelectric Power Projects to War Department and Federal Power Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hells Canyon Project Idaho Oregon written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dams and Public Safety written by Robert B. Jansen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mountain States of America People Politics and Power in the Eight Rocky Mountain States written by Neal R. Peirce and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL (p. 297)-304.
Download or read book A Field on Fire written by Mark D. Hersey and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned to answer. Worster’s groundbreaking research serves as the organizational framework for the collection. Editors Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg have arranged the book into three sections corresponding to the primary concerns of Worster’s influential scholarship: the problem of natural limits, the transnational nature of environmental issues, and the question of method. Under the heading “Facing Limits,” five essays explore the inherent tensions between democracy, technology, capitalism, and the environment. The “Crossing Borders” section underscores the ways in which environmental history moves easily across national and disciplinary boundaries. Finally, “Doing Environmental History” invokes Worster’s work as an essayist by offering self-conscious reflections about the practice and purpose of environmental history. The essays aim to provoke a discussion on the future of the field, pointing to untapped and underdeveloped avenues ripe for further exploration. A forward thinker like Worster presents bold challenges to a new generation of environmental historians on everything from capitalism and the Anthropocene to war and wilderness. This engaging volume includes a very special afterword by one of Worster’s oldest friends, the eminent intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers, who has known Worster for close to fifty years.
Download or read book Public Power Private Interests and Where Do We Fit In written by Edmund F. Byrne and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world, the statues of Mary are miraculously crying. In the meantime, a journalist in Washington D.C. is diverted away from her own personal demons when she takes it upon herself to question why the Vatican is not declaring these occurrences as miracles after witnessing the unexplainable phenomena herself. The journalist suspects her nightly barage of haunting nightmares about the violent murders of countless women from five thousand year old priestesses to women accused of being witches in the seventeenth century may have something to do with the answer, as she investigates the biggest story of her life. Women all over the world in the 21st century are feeling "the awakening" as the discovery of ancient artifacts are disproving the beliefs set forth by patriarchal religions for thousands of years. When the journalist receives a visitation from a beautiful Goddess who at first appears to be the Virgin Mary, she suddenly realizes that an ancient religious and political cover up has grossly distorted some very important historical truths. As the journalist investigates and begins to publicly write about what she has uncovered, death threats and terror follow next as powerful members of the world's patriarchal religions and the age old male-run organizations that support them fight viciously to keep one of the world's oldest and most deceptive societal form of control against women hidden from the world. But as intimidation and threats increase, so too do the miracles and visitations from the real Sleeping Goddess, as she awakens once again, to bless and protect the world while igniting the hearts and souls of oppressed women everywhere.
Download or read book Annual Charges for the Use of Federal Government Dams and Other Structures written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Charges by Senator Andrew F Schoeppel written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates Sen. Andrew Schoeppel's allegations of communist affiliations of Interior Dept Secretary, Oscar L. Chapman, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner, Michael W. Straus, and Alaska Statehood Committee appointee, Randolph Feltus.
