Are we now assuming that there are at least two distinct settlements? One the western-style town as a clakkerz specific area and the other at the river with the salamanders? Or are they all near the same location? Since Stranger has this riverboat to help go from place to place, it could be that The Town is placed upriver from the Salamanders. Thus a dam being created might be a boon for them and bad for the natives.
Along the same lines, it might be that the dam itself is not illegal but sanctioned by the law. In most of the games what we would consider the authority or "law-givers" are the industrialists, it might be that the clakkerz are simply upset with the Outlaws for not getting the correct form, or something of this boorish nature.
I feel that there is a good deal more gray area in this game. I would suggest that the Clakkerz are the sort of you're everyday people who do (Or sanction) bad things because they don't know any better. Likewise they do (or sanction) good things not because its right so much as because its the law. Of course, this is presuming that the Town is indeed a Clakkerz settlement, and that they are law-makers therein.
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