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On the recordAugust 14, 2012
My district touches the Klamath Valley where the environmental left seeks to spend well over a quarter billion dollars tearing down four perfectly good hydroelectric dams that are capable of producing clean and inexpensive electricity for the equivalent of 150,000 homes.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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Criticism of environmental efforts to remove hydroelectric dams in Klamath Valley.

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