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The Crystal: What Would the River Say?
One of the last free-flowing rivers in Colorado, the Crystal is now threatened by two proposed dam projects that would transform its rushing waters. In a Yale Environment 360 video, filmmaker Pete McBride, who grew up along the river’s banks, captures the breathtaking beauty of the Crystal and shows why it should remain wild and free.
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COMMENTS Wonderful video. I'm still most impressed with your movie "Chasing Water", and would like to ask you do to a similar movie on the Rio Grande. Now, that's a river with deep history and spirit, and its birth is in Colorado. With your fabulous photographic skills and the narratives of Pueblo and Hispanic ties to the river…an important and powerful project! Cochiti Damn flooded native ruins and burial sites, and to this day people pray for their ancestors under the lake. The river is rapidly losing indigenous fish and turtles, and no longer consistently flows to Mexico. In many areas one can walk across the dry river bed. I wonder what impact this is having on the people of Mexico who rely on the Rio Grande. Thanks for letting me share.
Posted by
Lena Hakim
on 28 Jun 2012
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Baju Muslimah
on 31 Jul 2012
Posted by
matt
on 14 Aug 2012
Yupz = Wonderful video. I'm still most impressed with your movie "Chasing Water", and would like to ask you do to a similar movie on the Rio Grande.
Having clean energy and at the same time preserving the environment where the dam is built
is tough.
Great movie!
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