Over the past several months, Coalition members have worked to broaden the energy base in Washington State by promoting efficiency upgrades at existing dams, focusing on new renewable energy technologies, and opposing new dam construction where this would lead to marginal new energy at a high environmental cost. 

It is clear that America needs to act quickly to replace fossil fuel energy technologies with renewable energy.  But we will not solve our energy problems by building new dams -- especially inefficient low-power dams where the energy benefits fail to outweigh the environmental impacts.