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In Industrialized Nature I read that the Eletronorte power company in Brazil, when building the Tucuruí hydroelectric project, didn’t communicate with the forestry bureaucracy, and so instead of cutting the trees first and then flooding the forest, they flooded the forest first, and then, yes, used underwater chainsaws and scuba-diving loggers to harvest the trees from the bottom of the reservoir. “Eletronorte specialists now talk excitedly about the valuable submerged wood they harvest from the reservoir’s depths, and the proudly proclaim that recovery of the wood provides local employment.”