Sentence examples for dam editorial from inspiring English sources

In "Down Comes Another Dam" (editorial, July 22), you applaud the removal of a dam on the lower Penobscot River in Maine.

While the Army Corps of Engineers has found that the average survival rate through all four dams and reservoirs on the Snake River for juvenile salmon is already more than 80percentt and for adult salmon 88 to 94percentthereere has not been any scientific data to prove that the dam removal you advocate (editorial, April 2) would increase the survival rate.

A serious political discussion about the dam was ignited by the editorials, like one last September that lamented the valley's dearth of tourists.

Hu's followers included managing editor Wang Shuo, editorial director Yang Daming and associate editor Zhang Jiwei.

In an editorial headed "Shame on the dam builders", the Post said the approval process had hit an "abysmal low".

As Standing Rock tribal chairman David Archambault said in an editorial last month: "When the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri River in 1958, it took our riverfront forests, fruit orchards and most fertile farmland to create Lake Oahe.

Re "Saving the Snake River Salmon" (editorial, April 2): You acknowledge that disabling the dams will make electricity costlier, stop wheat barges on the river and cause the loss of irrigation water for farmland.

I disagree with your conclusion in "Caution on West Lake Drive" (editorial, June 20) that the road over the Kensico Dam should be kept closed.

One person deserves to be mentioned by name and that is my excellent Editorial Assistant Noor van Dam, who is really the central and most important person in our Editorial Office, and without whom I would be rather helpless.

Your superb editorial "Saving a River, and Its Species" (June 12) describes the latest removal of a dam in Maine to bring back fisheries.

Recently a Bangkok Post editorial accused China of "Killing the Mekong .In March China broke its silence over dams, denying that it was responsible for reducing the Mekong's flow reaching downstream neighbours.