Clyfford Still, 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, View of the Grand Coulee
Dam construction site, 1936.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
These include the flood - control
dam at Mount Morris, New York, oversight of the lower Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario), review and permitting of wetlands
construction, and remedial action for hazardous waste
sites.
In Malaysia, tribespeople blockaded the
construction site of a new
dam.
At present, the original population of Linaria salzmanii has disappeared due to the
construction of the Canales
dam, and Linaria becerrae is now considered exclusive of the west of the province of Málaga, where it lives in areas bordering the protected natural area of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes, a well - known tourist
site.
The
site in the south - east of Turkey (Diyarbakir province) is at risk from the
construction of the Ilisu
Dam.
Beyond Architecture, with images selected from the entire Stoller archive of more than 50,000 images, includes views of Post-War American factories,
construction sites, hydroelectric
dams and printing plants.
In 1936, Still visited the
construction site of the Grand Coulee
Dam on the Columbia River northwest of Pullman and while there he created at least 10 photographs, a few sketches and two paintings.
Activists Force Suspension of
Construction Activists had been camping near the waterfall in protest for more than a week, the paper reported, forcing the dam company, Robshin Ltd., «to suspend its construction and evacuate its heavy equipment from the construction
Construction Activists had been camping near the waterfall in protest for more than a week, the paper reported, forcing the
dam company, Robshin Ltd., «to suspend its
construction and evacuate its heavy equipment from the construction
construction and evacuate its heavy equipment from the
construction construction site.»
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.
Friday's ruling also bans the transferral of funds to the
construction companies involved by the state - run BNDES development bank, which is to provide 80 percent of the financing, the court in the northern state of Para, the
site of the
dam, said in a statement.
Despite decades of legal and political wrangling to halt the building of a massive hydroelectric
dam facility at Belo Monte, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, all seemed lost as earth - movers and
construction teams began arriving in drove to the
site earlier this year.
There was some risk that the new NDP government would actually cancel
Site C, even though the
dam is part way through
construction.
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.
CAREER SUMMARY More than 30 years of experience in the direct leadership in various important projects, which include the execution, supervision and management of multidisciplinary undertakings that can be all summarized in the following areas:
Site solution, Planning design and
Construction, technical specifications for civil works, estructural and equipment hoisting, earth movements, grounds, hydraulic works,
dams, roadwa...