Summary
A project former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton called "perhaps the most significant step to restore the Atlantic salmon in the past century," aims to restore fish habitat in New England's second largest watershed without significantly reducing hydro- electric power generation. With the president and other leaders pushing for more renewable power amid fears of electricity shortages and growing concern about climate change, maintaining, or even increasing, hydro power production makes good sense.
The innovative project on the Penobscot River, which involves the dams' owner, PPL Corp., conservation groups, the Penobscot Nation and federal and state agencies, will remove two dams and modify a third while increasing output at three others on the waterway. As a result, hydro power generation on the river will remain nearly the same while fish passage and the accompanying opportunities for recreational angling and boating will be vastly increased.See the full content of this document
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Penobscot Power
The river, the largest freshwater source for the Gulf of Maine, is an important source of feed fish for groundfish in the gulf. Incr...
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