GhostofJohnMuir posted:

And with an operation like that you probably suddenly have member of the environmental wing concerned about the impediment such extraction operations would present to plant and animal life in the river. Physical obstructions or process that change the water temperature even a few degrees can have outsized negative effects. It's probably an issue you're going to run into with any large scale project, geo-engineering or other wise, and the split it will cause in the base for solutions to these problems will keep it from happening for the foreseeable future.