Keswick Dam on the Sacramento River. (Tanya photo)Creepy Electric Generation
Here's a photo of one of the humongous dams on the Sacramento River just a bit upstream from Redding CA--dams which are supposed to provide cheap electricity for local residents.
I use spooky colors to emphasize the creepy nature of these dams (Shasta Dam and Keswick Dam) which have messed up the environment of this area so thoroughly.
This area was also pretty much wrecked by placer gold mining a few years earlier--the top soil was pretty much washed away to get at the gold in them thar hills. (And by the way the tap water in this town still has a bit of arsenic in it left over from the mining days --just for flavor.)
You know--considering what terrific damage was wrought by our granddaddies around here--it is amazing that any of us can still live here!
Apparently greed has always been central to the way of life for the European-American folks in Redding, CA.
I use spooky colors to emphasize the creepy nature of these dams (Shasta Dam and Keswick Dam) which have messed up the environment of this area so thoroughly.
This area was also pretty much wrecked by placer gold mining a few years earlier--the top soil was pretty much washed away to get at the gold in them thar hills. (And by the way the tap water in this town still has a bit of arsenic in it left over from the mining days --just for flavor.)
You know--considering what terrific damage was wrought by our granddaddies around here--it is amazing that any of us can still live here!
Apparently greed has always been central to the way of life for the European-American folks in Redding, CA.
Tomasito, 2008
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