#hydrodams

"Dam removal is becoming an increasingly important topic in European policy and practice because of its potential to address a wide range of environmental, social, and economic issues.

Firstly, dam removal can help to restore natural river systems and their ecological functions. Dams can disrupt the natural flow of water, prevent fish from migrating and spawning, and reduce the availability of habitat for aquatic species. Removing dams can help to restore these functions and create healthier and more diverse ecosystems, which in turn can provide important benefits for people, such as improved water quality and recreational opportunities.

Secondly, dam removal can help to address the impacts of climate change. Rivers are an important part of the global carbon cycle, and dam reservoirs can emit large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Removing dams can reduce these emissions and restore natural processes that help to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Thirdly, dam removal can provide economic benefits, particularly for local communities. Dam removal can create new opportunities for ecotourism and recreation, as well as supporting sustainable fisheries and agriculture. Additionally, removing old or unsafe dams can help to reduce the costs of maintenance and repair, while also reducing the risks of floods and other natural disasters.

In Europe, dam removal is increasingly being recognized as a key tool for achieving a more sustainable and resilient future. Several countries, including the UK, France, and Spain, have already begun to remove dams, and the European Union has recently launched a new initiative aimed at promoting dam removal and river restoration across the continent. With its potential to address a wide range of environmental, social, and economic challenges, dam removal is likely to remain an important topic in European policy and practice for years to come."

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https://lnkd.in/ewHjPw65 https://lnkd.in/e3jsNZKY Explain why dam removal is of crucial importance in European policy and practice AI Open Source GPT Chat Llewelyn Pritchard MA 1 May 2023 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/explain-how-why-queen-elizabeth-iis-king-charles-iiis-pritchard-ma/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTLFsFVE9OOlwah4c7zSGYGKd8N-F_ZSXlt7czsmW89eRGxPKveN3k5OdZtq0YiSBvxshrwk061hmMU/pub Explain how and why Queen Elizabeth II’s, King Charles III's and Queen Consort Camilla’s corrupting, colonial, capitalist, Crown Corporations should be abolished in Canada. 6 May 2023 “Crown Coronation day”. AI Open Source GPT Chat Llewelyn Pritchard MA 30 April 2023 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/muskrat-falls-inquiry-misguided-project-1.5492169  SCATHING MUSKRAT FALLS INQUIRY REPORT LAYS BLAME ON EXECUTIVES Former Nalcor CEO Ed Martin and others took 'unprincipled steps' to secure project sanction, says report. Terry Roberts CBC News 10 Mar 2020 #History #Dispossession #Canada https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dispossessed-eviction-inuit-from-hebron-labrador-2017-pritchard-ma/ #Dispossessed #ColonialLaw #ForcedAssimilation #LandBack #SelfDetermination #Innu #Sheshatshiu #Inuit #Hebron #NunatuKavut #Colonisation #HudsonsBayCompany #DrWilfredGrenfell #DrHarryPaddon #Health #Settlers #MuskratFalls #HappyValleyGooseBay #NWRiver #MudLake #Rigolet #Mishtashipu #GrandRiverLabrador #Labrador #NewfoundlandAndLabrador #IndigenousPeoples #FreeRivers #RepairNaturesArteries #RestoreRiversNaturalState #RepairBioDiversity #RepairNature #FundNature #RestoreNature #Nalcor #FailedLeadership #JustinTrudeau #DwightBall #SiobhanCoady #JudyFoote #BetrayedVotersTrust #ImmoralLeadership #LiberalCorruption #CEOs #CorruptBusinessLeaders #CorruptPoliticians #Colonialism #Capitalism #NaturalResources #Exploitation #EcologicalDestruction #Methane #MethylMercury #PoisoningLabradorsLandCountryFoodsAndPeople #HydroDamsGenerateMethaneAtmosphericGreenhouseGasEmissions #HydroElectricityIsNotCleanIsNotGreen #GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChaos #RapidlyCutMethane #StopHydroDamDeforestation #StopDrowningForests #StopKillingTrees  #RapidlyPhaseOutALLfossilFuels #DestroyingMaritimeWaysOfLife #NalcorCrownCorporation #CrownCorporation #CorruptColonialCrownCapitalistCorporation #SackFossilFuels 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dispossessed-eviction-inuit-from-hebron-labrador-2017-pritchard-ma/ DISPOSSESSED: THE EVICTION OF INUIT FROM HEBRON, LABRADOR [Doc] [Carol Brice-Bennett] 2017 With a foreword by Daniel Chartier [sole responsibility for transcription quality: Llewelyn Pritchard MA] 27 January 2021

https://lnkd.in/eMv2rX8j https://lnkd.in/erHmeXcn Explain how and why the Conservative majority UK Parliament at Westminster, London and beyond is no longer fit for purpose. AI Open Source GPT Chat Llewelyn Pritchard MA 27 April 2023 

https://lnkd.in/ef39ZmuF https://lnkd.in/eBtFmZ4V  https://lnkd.in/eet3q3ek Show this thread  @carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalla  LANDMARK RULING IN STRASBOURG AS MPs CHALLENGE UK TORY GOVERNMENT OVER FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN BREXIT https://lnkd.in/ef39ZmuF https://lnkd.in/eBtFmZ4V   EXTRACTS ‘Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake’ says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his all-out war on Ukraine almost a year ago, the Kremlin’s long-term plans for imperial expansion have come under closer scrutiny, particularly its use of ‘alternative measures’ to undermine the EU through propaganda and the funding of right-wing Eurosceptic parties in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. But what about the UK?

Though dismissed or ignored at the time, Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee’s 2018 report on disinformation and fake news outlined the impact of the Russian Embassy in London, and state-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik, in supporting the Leave campaigns.

It also revealed the role social media operations such as the Internet Research Agency and the now defunct Cambridge Analytica had in promoting Brexit. A year later, in 2019, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee concluded in its ‘Russia Report’ that Kremlin interference in elections was the “new normal” and there were “credible attempts” to meddle with the UK’s democratic processes.

For whatever reason, Boris Johnson succeeded in delaying the publication of the Russia Report in the run-up to the 2019 General Election. When – against Johnson’s wishes – it was finally published in July 2020, the report also contained the staggering admission that there had been no official investigation into the potential damage done to our democracy by what was, by then, clearly a hostile foreign power.

Johnson’s apathy over our democratic national security was not new. While Foreign Secretary in 2017, Johnson claimed there was “not a sausage” of evidence of Putin meddling in Brexit, despite his nominal role overseeing GCHQ at the time, which had been working with the FBI’s Special Counsel Robert Mueller on precisely that. Mueller had named Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud as a Russian agent in London. As the Observer and Byline reported, Mifsud met Johnson to talk about Brexit.'

'Evgeny Lebedev was controversially elevated to the House of Lords by Johnson in 2020 – as Baron of Hampton in Richmond upon Thames and Siberia in the Russian Federation. His father, Alexander, a former senior KGB officer, is alleged to have been present when, as Foreign Secretary, Johnson left his security detail behind to travel to the Lebedev’s Umbrian villa following a NATO briefing on the attempted murder of defector Sergei Skripal by Russian military intelligence using the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury. Johnson denies any official matters were discussed, but Paul Caruana Galizia has reported for Tortoise that Johnson was offered a back-channel to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov.

'With all this evidence of the Kremlin’s close interest in British affairs, not least of all Putin’s public intervention insisting that Theresa May get on with Brexit, Johnson eventually changed his tune by 2022, telling the House of Commons: “I have seen absolutely no evidence of successful Russian interference in any electoral event”.

Given Johnson’s record of equivocal and often mendacious statements, combined with the admission from the intelligence services explicitly that they had never been tasked to investigate these matters, we cannot afford to rely on the former Prime Minister’s word.

In response to this glaring and potentially compromising lack of electoral and national security, a group of parliamentarians took the UK Government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last March, with the support of campaigning journalism organisation The Citizens. The cross-party group of MPs – including Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Labour’s Ben Bradshaw and the SNP’s Alyn Smith – claim the Government is infringing our “right to free and fair elections” by failing to act on the findings of the Russia Report.

The court in Strasbourg has now indicated the case both has merit and may be designated an ‘impact case’. It has written to the Government inviting it to respond in detail to the allegations by 26 April.'

'“Following the 2016 EU referendum, but long before the ISC Russia Report, there was a considerable and growing body of evidence that Russia was interested in and acting to disturb Western election processes,” Ricketts continued. “It is a matter of public record that both the U.S. election in 2016 and the French election in 2017 were subject to Russian interference…. Given the evidence that has now amassed of Russian interference, it is important to establish once and for all whether Russia attempted to interfere in the EU Referendum and subsequent UK general elections.” '