Sentences with phrase «dam construction project»

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.

Not exact matches

It is arguably the first singularly big development project to be completed by president Kagame's government, and is set to be the first of many with a further four Large Dams in the immediate pipeline and the Bugasera Airport under construction.

During the 1st Republic, they opposed the construction of the Akosombo Hydro - Dam and the establishment of the Volta River Project; the constructions of the Tema Township and Harbour; the constructions of the Okomfo Anokye Hospital, the Motorway and the Job 600 (State House Complex).

The episode is not unique; just over a week ago, on October 29th, 218 workers shut down two construction sites of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam Project in eastern Cameroon.

On the construction of the Tamne dam, President Mahama said, construction of the project stalled during the rainy season to allow the area to dry up for continuation.

Wilson resident Marek Kobialka, a construction engineer with the Niagara Power Project, recently received, on behalf of the New York Power Authority (NYPA), an award from the Western New York Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI - WNY) for superior work practices related to the repair and restoration of the dam face of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant (featured in the background).

------------------------------------ Congressman Chris Gibson announced the House adopted a bill to extend the deadline for the start of construction of the hydroelectric project at the Cannonsville Dam.

But freshwater fish are beginning to return, thanks to an $ 86 million project financed by the World Bank that saw construction of a new dam and dykes.

The central government's Ministry of Environmental Protection responded in June, suspending the Xiaonanhai project pending further review — along with two other nearby dams in the Jinsha River already under construction.

Senegal's outbreak of schistosomiasis has been blamed on several development projects in the basin of the Senegal River, including the building of two dams and the construction of irrigation schemes.

Canadian environmental group Probe International says that in 2000, Chinese academics pleaded for $ 37 billion for environmental projects relating to the dam's construction.

Uncontrolled and unregulated fast - paced development projects such as illegal road construction and dam prospecting within outstanding natural habitats.

Hunger As A Teacher is part of Caroline Caycedo's project Be Dammed, 2010 — , which addresses the privatization of waterways through the construction of dams, and the environmental and cultural effects of extractivism.

His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the pProject series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the projectproject.

«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.

Wavering between documentary and fictional forms, the project examines the relationship between landscape and identity in the midst of the dam's construction, which required the relocation of more than one million people.

Starting with images of the river valley in its pristine state and moving through the various stages of construction, these photographs attempt to signal the project's inevitability by offering us a semblance of continuity, positioning the deconstruction of the landscape and construction of the dam against the backdrop of the ancient Chinese landscape.

We should similarly file statements indicating the impact of real estate development; the construction of buildings, dams, and levees; and other major projects — on the increased vulnerability to hazards they will impose on others.

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.

Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.

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.

Todd has traveled to the Amazon a dozen times over the course of seven years to document the conflicts surrounding the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, and in early March 2016 he returned to the region as the dam's construction neared completion.

Aristotelis Koskinas From MetaBunk.org, for Oroville Dam design and construction details see particularly the document: California State Water Project, Vol.

Large - scale CCS projects in the power sector are now a reality, demonstrated by: * The world's first large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oproject — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of 2016.

Documented since at least the 1920s, induced seismicity also has been attributed to a number of other human activities, including impoundment of large reservoirs behind dams, geothermal projects, mining extraction, construction and underground nuclear tests.

Myint Zaw and his colleagues» campaign came to a head when President Thein Sein halted the dam's construction and vowed the project will not proceed for as long as he's in office.

In 2011, in what many see as evidence of hope for Myanmar's fledgling democracy and the environmental movement, President Thein Sein halted the dam's construction and vowed the project will not proceed for as long as he's in office.

We mapped distribution of 292 dams (under construction and proposed) and projected effects of these dams on terrestrial ecosystems under different scenarios of land - cover loss.

Kenyan Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has dedicated her life to fighting the construction of the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.

One of the projects she is most dedicated to is documenting the ecosystems and communities that will be impacted by the construction of the Belo Monte dam in Brazil.

Since run of river projects don't use reservoirs on the scale of the large dams, you've really only got the embedded emissions from construction to pay back before you're producing clean power.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

Designers of an innovative project under construction are erecting solar photovoltaic panels on the slope of a dam across a river in Maharashtra.

These assignments have involved a wide range of projects which include highways and bridges, dams, power related facilities, water and wastewater treatment, landfills and building construction.

We have assisted our clients on a variety of major construction projects, including dams, jails, schools, highways, airports, hospitals, large corporate campuses, marine, industrial and other public and private works projects.

The federal government is not going to argue against halting construction of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam in British Columbia while a B.C. court decides if the project violates constitutionally protected treaty rights.

They plan, design and oversee construction and maintenance of building structures and infrastructure, such as roads, railways, airports, bridges, harbours, dams, irrigation projects, power plants, and water and sewerage systems.

In civil engineering, where the work is mainly about constructing infrastructure such as bridges, dams, and roads, a project manager is often referred to as a construction manager.

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For the last few years I have been a Construction Inspector (Mechanical QA) on two complex public work projects, the Ground Water Replenishment Expansion Project for Orange County Water District, and the San Vicente Dam Raise for San Diego County Water Authority.

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