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Adam Gray: “They don't want to incentivize dams by letting…”

Featuring: Adam Gray, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 13

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Swing Left Tri-Valley with CA-13 candidate Adam Gray

Published | Video Starts at 42:29

Right. And it does that because there's a lot of folks in the environmental advocacy world who feel strongly that we shouldn't have more dams, and therefore, They don't want to incentivize dams by letting hydroelectricity, which is the cheapest, most affordable form of renewable energy, be constructed. So they've intentionally disincentivized that. But what that meant here was 30 and 40% higher utility bills. And why is that? (42:29–42:40)

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Asserts that environmental advocates oppose incentivizing dams and hydroelectricity construction.

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