President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech At The Dedication Of Hoover Dam

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“This morning I came, I saw and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Dedication of Hoover Dam Sept. 30, 1935 It was the great Hoover Dam, a great National Treasure. It was the feat of mankind which rose 726 feet above the bedrock of the river, altering the geography of an entire region, creating the largest artificial lake in the world and holding enough water to cover the entire State of Connecticut to a depth of ten feet. It was this dam that managed to provide for the entire annual electricity use of merely 2% of the United States population while simultaneously endangering four native species to the Colorado River, destroying the estuarine ecosystem, …show more content…

But we created a lot more beauty. And we made it available, which it wasn’t before.” Floyd Dominy, Former Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner 1989 When giant dams were proposed in the Grand Canyon and Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument, “Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so tourists can get nearer the ceiling?” David Brower, Environmentalist, Former Executive Director of the Sierra Club 1965 Clearly, our methods of obtaining hydroelectric power in order to save the environment, is in fact, ruining the environment.
[Justify the need for alternate sources of energy]

“Seeing thousands of wind turbines generating power in the Columbia Gorge with no impact on salmon runs and water quality definitely raises the question to how hydropower could be marketed as green energy.” Ben Knight, Photographer, Director of DamNation
[Divert ‘green energy’ interests away from dams and hydropower and towards wind and solar power]

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