March 2013 By EV Arntzen • S Niehus • BL Miller • M Richmond • AC O’Toole Inland water bodies, such as freshwater lakes, are known to be net emitters of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). In recent years, significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from tropical, boreal, and mid-latitude reservoirs have also been reported. […]
July 2017 By Benjamin L. Miller ● Evan V. Arntzen ● Amy E. Goldman ● Marshall C. Richmond The United States is home to 2198 dams actively used for hydropower production. With the December 2015 consensus adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement, it is important to accurately quantify anthropogenic […]
July 2020 By John Twa, Mechanical Engineer Scientists are increasingly studying and recognizing the significant amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from hydropower reservoirs. “[N]umerous studies have demonstrated that hydropower reservoirs have the potential to produce high amounts of [methane], despite initially being considered carbon-free energy sources”. In fact, ten percent of reservoirs have emission […]
February 28, 2013 Submitted by Northwest Resource Information Center This document provides documentation of Bonneville Power Administration upper management’s calculated profligate waste of federal funds and scofflaw behavior vis-à-vis operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System which, contrary to law, decimated Snake River Basin anadromous fish (herein “salmon”), drove them onto the List of […]