The Glen Canyon Institute's idea to drain Lake Powell , would increase CO2 emissions, destroy the family community of Page , render the Navajo Generation Station useless, create economic instability across northern Arizona and the Navajo Indian Reservation, increase the National Debt and wreak havoc with Colorado River Water Law. Too many reports are distorted and the press in its eagerness to report controversy doesn't take the time to apply a critical level of thinking to some of the arguments.
Some information is non-sensicle.
For example, I've read that the dam is ready to burst and when it goes that the town of Page of would be flooded. I've read that medical officials are warning pregnant women not to swim in Lake Powell, that the Lake will fill with silt in as little as 50 years and that the Colorado River corridor through the Grand Canyon was once a biologically rich Shangri-La and that now it is dead and dying. The dam has met and continues to meet every single safety inspection. The City of Page sits 1300' above river level where it is impossible to be flooded. Sonar data indicate a sedimentation rate that would take 700 years to fill the dam and this does not take into account any mitigating efforts like just letting some silt go through the jet tubes.