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...dream is coming true. A work force of 15,000 men, with the most modern construction machines, is gathering on the U.S. and Canadian banks of the river to build the long-heralded St. Lawrence Seaway and power development. When it is finished in 1959, some 13 billion kilowatt hours of low-cost electricity, three times the output of Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river and the Great Lakes it drains will be transformed into a man-made Mediterranean, on which seagoing ships can sail westward...
...growing industrial nation that depends for energy almost entirely on coal. But Britain's coal resources are failing and the country has almost no oil. To the Fuel Ministry, nuclear power thus seems a heaven-sent answer. It will cost at first about 7 mills per kilowatt-hour. Even if this cost does not fall in the future, as is likely because of technical improvements, it will still be competitive with power from British coal...
...exploitation of whatever assets any park has to offer, that is too bad, but it must be done. This whole argument hinges on the very questionable assumption that the intangible values parks have to offer must inevitably be sacrificed to tangible values like acre-feet of water, kilowatt-hours of electricity, etc. A prominent conservationist once asked why this is inevitable, and to this day no one has produced an answer...
...generators are in operation at McNary Dam, Hungry Horse and Albeni Falls. Drastically lower snowpack in the Columbia River watershed has dropped the river level. Without heavy new rains or snowfall in the next two months, the Bonneville Power Administration will have to cut back the 5 billion kilowatt-hours used by the aluminum companies...
...measure of overall industrial activity, electric-power output for the latest week topped 10 billion kilowatt-hours for the first time in history, the third successive weekly record and a full 13% above the same week...