Word: dams
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Last week Northwest powermen thought they had one answer to the problem. They proposed a huge, international program that could serve as a model for developing the entire Columbia Basin. The project: a dam and power network at Mica Creek, B.C. (see map) that would back up twice as much water as Grand Coulee Dam, serve Canada and the U.S. with a whopping 3,000,000 kw. of new power...
Share & Share Alike. A group of five Northwest power companies, headed by Paul Raver, onetime Bonneville Power administrator and now president of Seattle's city-owned Municipal Light and Power System, want to build a 700-ft. high, $250-million earth-fill dam across the Columbia where it winds through the Canadian wilderness. At the dam itself and two other sites between Mica Creek and the border, Canada could build powerhouses to produce 1,700,000 kw. of power. The Canadian government would also release enough water from Mica Creek during the dry winter months to produce...
Under the proposed deal, one of the five U.S. companies, probably the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., would build the dam, turn it over to Canada free. In return, Puget Sound would get an 800,000-kw. share of the new power produced in the U.S. (a portion of which it would resell to the other companies), leaving 440,000 kw. for the federal-power network. Total cost to the company for the Mica Creek dam: $700 million, which it would pay off at the rate of $14 million annually for 50 years through the sale of low-cost power...
...power project will be a concrete dam, 625 ft. long and 154 ft. thick, across the narrow estuary of the River Rance. Twice daily, as the 27-ft. tide rises, the sea will flow through the dam's water gates until slack tide. Then the gates will be shut. Three hours later, as the tide ebbs, the trapped water in the estuary will fight its way through 26 turbines (each...
...Especially in Maine, where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent $5,500,000 in federal relief funds trying to dam the 19-ft. tides of Passamaquoddy Bay (1934-36) before Congress cut Quoddy out of the budget...