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Hydropower hearing, Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee, opening statement by Representative Tom McClintock

Posted by: Maven on July 30, 2010 at 6:37 am

From Hydro World:

“Rep. Tom Mclintock, R-Calif. (4th CD), issued the following news release:

Representative Tom McClintock (CA – 04), Ranking Member of the House Water and Power Subcommittee, today made the following opening statement at a hearing about low-impact hydropower:

“I applaud this hearing on expanding small hydropower development to augment our hydroelectric capacity. We will hear testimony today on the bureaucratic obstacles that federal agencies have placed in the way of the placement and construction of these hydro-electric generators, and I believe that Congress must make a concerted effort to identify and remove these obstacles that discourage development and drive up the price of electricity for consumers.

“I am concerned, however, with an attempt to use the promise of small hydroelectricity projects as an excuse to delay, impede — and among certain extremist groups, to destroy — existing large-scale hydroelectric facilities.

“One of the lamentable tendencies I have noticed in this Congress is to heavily subsidize those forms of water and power generation that are ideologically pleasing to the environmental Left while obstructing or even dismantling water and power generation frowned upon by the same extremist groups. … “

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July 30, 2010 · Filed Under Energy & Water

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2 Responses to “Hydropower hearing, Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee, opening statement by Representative Tom McClintock”

  1. Trager Water Report on July 30th, 2010 5:28 pm

    California voters were fools not to elect McClintock governor.

  2. dfb on July 31st, 2010 10:51 pm

    @Trager: Ha! That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard since the last statement from Devin Nunes about water.

    Both sides are guilty of ignoring facts and good arguments adverse to their positions. McClintock is one of the worst offenders in major California politics with regard to water. He uses it solely for political points and nothing more.

    Moreover, McClintock refuses to acknowledge that one of the major reasons for delta pump cutbacks is the salinity restrictions on the water rights of the state and federal projects. I’m not well versed in the Klamath River dispute but his statement about 17,000 adult salmon returning to the Klamath system out of 5 million smolts released sounds almost laughable because that return rate is 0.34 percent. Why bother to mention it without identifying the return rate on a natural or other river systems. It just demonstrates that McClintock continues to give speech after speech without actually knowing any real facts on which to base his opinions or trying to address there is another side to a dispute. That’s probably why he did not come close to the governor’s chair.

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