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Journeyman

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2. It was already proposed, in the 1950s . . .
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:43 PM
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The North American Water and Power Alliance would have cost $100 billion or more (back then), and would have diverted water from Alaska through Canada, into the US. It was envisioned it would feed a navigable waterway from Alberta to the Great Lakes, provide additional flow to the Columbia and Missouri-Mississippi rivers systems, and been pumped over the Rockies in Idaho, there to flow into the Colorado and Rio Grande systems.

It was madness when it was proposed, and madness when it was abandoned in the 1970s. Perhaps this is what Mango Mussolini pictures in his head when he blithers and blathers his nonsense. Madness, all the way around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance

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It was already proposed, in the 1950s . . . Journeyman Tuesday #2
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