wandering polar zone



Karl, I will see if I can relocate that report. I get so much environmnetal
news in my line of work, that sometimes it is difficult to assess what is
necessary to hold on to; almost immediately after I deleted the
information, I started needing this one. So, I am trying to track it down
again. Basically, it was an environmental news reporting service article
which came, perhaps from the International Rivers Network, in CA, stating
that the proliferation of dams has been mostly in the northern hemisphere,
and of course we have more land mass to flood up here, than they do in the
south. There is a phenomenon known as "reservoir-induced seismicity" which
is well known to engineers of large dams, but generally ignored in their
rush to the bank. It causes local shifts of the crust due to the tremendous
volume of water and its weight. Even the oldest rock on the North American
continent, the Laurentian formation of the Canadian shield, has shifted
beneath the onslaught of the HydrQuebec dams and their reservoirs,
producing earthquakes in Quebec City (HydroQ denied any connections to the
events, but then they also denied any connections to the provincial debt of
several billion dollars due to HQ projects being bad economics, and denied
any culpability in the series of power outages in the region in which they
are THE monopoly....)

I will keep looking for the original piece as others have requested it.
Give me about a month, and if you still are curious, write again, and ask
if I have located it.

erik


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>
>Umm, Mr. van Lennep,
>Have you got some handy references documenting this problem. It sounds
>very interesting.
>
>Perhaps all you subscribers in the southern hemisphere could kindly
>petition your governments or other pertainent energy monopolies to
>construct equally huge dams so as to balance us out again?  ??
>
>
>Karl.
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