Sentences with phrase «brahmaputra dams construction»

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

So there's an 18 - per - cent contingency on dam construction components like the powerhouse, the dam itself and a 10 - per - cent contingency built in to non-construction components.

But as countries seek new energy sources to drive economic growth, a surge in dam construction on the eastern flank of the Andes could further threaten fish migration and sediment flows, Elizabeth Anderson, a conservation ecologist at Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues warn today in Science Advances.

European Eel The unsustainable harvest rates of European eel and diminished migration (because of dam construction around Europe) add up to a decline of at least 80 percent of the population since 1968.

Combining data on precipitation, topography, habitat changes, dam construction, and pollution, the researchers created detailed maps of the threats to rivers around the world.

Atlantic salmon are indigenous to the area but became threatened with extinction in the 1800s as a result of dam construction, overfishing and pollution.

Tunisia scores 65 per cent, and has lost an estimated 19 000 hectares of natural wetlands because of dam construction.

The team found that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely linked, indicating reduced water flow due to dam construction and water diversion for irrigation was the primary reason for the long - term declines in waterbirds in the Murray - Darling Basin.

Early declines, dating as far back as the 1700s, were probably the result of overharvesting in the rivers, dam construction blocking access to spawning grounds, and water pollution.

The authors caution that Amazonian forests and reserves still face a barrage of threats, from dam construction and mining to wildfires and droughts intensified by global warming, and direct invasions of indigenous lands.

Man - made include human - generated changes to the water table, including dam construction, and industrial activities involving the injection or removal of fluids from the subsurface.

During the ZITF, Zinwa will showcase its operations such water treatment, dam construction, borehole drilling and catchment management issues.

Clyfford Still, Landscape view of the Grand Coulee Dam construction in Washington, 1936.

Clyfford Still, View of the Grand Coulee Dam construction site, 1936.

To share a peek at some of my findings, I am spotlighting a series of photographs Clyfford Still created at the Grand Coulee Dam construction site in 1936.

Clyfford Still, Grand Coulee Dam construction site, 1936.

Grand Coulee Dam construction was begun in 1933 and completed in 1941.

«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date, with images of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

He held his first exhibition in Stockholm in 1950, where he worked briefly as a design engineer, followed by his first exhibition in Pakistan three years later in Warsak, near Peshawar, where Gulgee was involved in a dam construction project on the Kabul River.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

But IMHO in following the dam constructions and flow and sedimentation delays, it was pretty clear that for several years the Carribean was impacted by the changes to the Orinoco from huge hydroelectric projects in the region.

The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

«And we found that the estimates of methane emissions per area of reservoir are about 25 percent higher than previously thought, which we think is significant given the global boom in dam construction, which is currently underway.»

I don't think you can find one single person out there that doesn't believe man changes the climate in at least one way or another be it GHGs or UHIs or irrigation or dam construction.

Narrated by award - winning actors Peter Coyote (English version) and Marcos Palmeira (Portuguese version), the documentary chronicles the inspiring work of indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, and their allies to prevent dam construction and its many impacts.

«There is a tsunami of hydropower dam constructions happening here and nobody really knows about it,» said Britton Caillouette, director of «Blue Heart», a documentary that focuses on efforts to halt the hydropower plans.

We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.»

Although there is a net trend toward dam decommissioning in the United States, most of these removals have been small dams, and the global number of removals is more than offset by recent increases in dam construction (O'Connor et al. 2015).

An unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway, primarily in developing countries and emerging economies.

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

«There is a wealth of experts in their fields producing evidence, year after year, on the extreme negative consequences of dam construction; I am yet to see any robust evidence that the benefits of dams can outweigh these consequences,» she concluded.

And of great concern is the fact that «islands are not counted as part of area calculations for land impacted by dam construction.»

«I want to see the legal framework surrounding dam construction, and developers, properly accounting for the long - term impacts versus energy outputs of dams.»

Dam construction boomed.

Does irrigation and dam construction affect that?

Is dam construction a forcing?

Employing a political ecology framework, I endeavor to articulate the multiple levels at which this issue unfolds, describing the correlation between the circulation of climate change discourse and the resurgence of hydroelectric power at the global level; how this situation has been engaged at the national level within contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades.

We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.»

Hydropwer accounts for the overwhelming share of China's alternative energy mix, but is perhaps also the one of the more controversial alternative energy options due to the ecological and social impacts of dam construction.

Major waves of urbanization and dam construction, as well as poaching, overgrazing and overfishing, pollution, and excessive irrigation, threaten to destroy species and ecosystems that have survived 10,000 years of human land use, according to the paper, which was published last week in the December issue of Biological Conservation following an eight - year research process.

You really shouldn't be adding on fish ladders, or even put up any sort of new dam regardless of whether it has one, due to the CO2 pollution in cement manufacture and the dam construction work.

The future act regime in native title applies to acts including activities such as dam construction and public water works.

Not exact matches

Construction began in 1975, when workers carved a 1.3 - mile - long, 300 - foot - deep, 490 - foot - wide diversion channel to re-route the Paraná River to make way for the dam.

Subiaco - based SRG has won a $ 6.3 million contract to provide construction work on an irrigation dam in Queensland.

One lawmaker said it was the most important development in Nevada since the construction of the Hoover Dam southeast of Las Vegas during the Great Depression

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade applauds the B.C. government for its decision to proceed with construction of the Site C dam.

This week, Premier Clark announced that she is ready to gamble nine billion of your dollars to start construction of the Site C dam this coming summer.

It has been just over one year since construction began on the Site C hydroelectric dam and generating station in northeast British Columbia.

A local construction worker, suspended from a crane, rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near the Center Street Dam in downtown Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday, June 30, 2009.