Sentences with phrase «gilboa dam site»

The North Aurora dam site had a new wooden bridge over the river.

New York City Department of Environmental Protection officials opened the Gilboa Dam site to government leaders, the media and the public Tuesday to get a firsthand look at reconstruction.

«No large dams have been built, but there have been reports that site preparations have begun at some proposed dam sites,» Kibler said.

The Yangtze carries 530 million tonnes of silt through the dam site each year, most of which could settle out on the reservoir bed.

Opportunities for outdoor recreation are close at hand in the adjacent 1,700 - acre Dam Site Park, which features boat ramps, picnic tables, and hiking trails; Beaver Lake stretches out over 70 miles and has 449 miles of shoreline to explore — it has been called the «newest great lake of the White River».

Here we enjoy a guided tour by a local ranger and view the stunning architecture on display at the dam sites.

Washington DC, Bonn, Kiad, Panama 24 May 2016 — Today the floodgates were opened on the contentious UN backed Barro Blanco hydro dam in Panama, sparking forced removal by authorities of indigenous Ngäbe communities that are living in protest camps near the dam site.

In October, International Rivers paid a visit to several dam sites and affected villages on the Lancang (Upper Mekong) River in Yunnan, China.

The maps not only gave information on topography and vegetation, they also showed activity in a given area, such as invasions and planned dam sites.

All the good locations are already developed: The available number of potential hydropower dam sites is limited by geography, and in the United States, the most viable sites have already been developed or are off limits.

In Sarawak, a state in Malaysian Borneo, indigenous community members blockaded a key road leading to the Murum dam site.

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Horgan has already backed several other projects — the Site C dam and an LNG terminal — that environmentalists oppose, and his government would fall without the votes of three Green MLAs, so he likely can't back down.

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

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

When the Province of B.C. approved the Site C Dam, I was grieved to the core.

Re Sharon K — There is no economic gain for the Province of BC in regards to Site C Dam.

Site C Dam is now putting the nail into the coffin for the delta and none of you are doing anything to stop it.

Site C Dam should have been cancelled for numerous reasons, environmental, financial and it's actual lack of need but can not be compared to the potential disaster that hundreds of tankers loaded with up to 500,000 barrels of bitumen would cause to the BC coastline and all the people and commercial enterprise that it supports.

Why have none of you stopped Site C Dam.

«It's ironic that the Committee report should come out in the midst of today's court hearings into the Site C dam, a megaproject approved by the federal and province governments over the objections of First Nations and despite a highly critical environmental assessment.»

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

Water for mineral processing is sourced from rainfall and stored in several process water dams and mining voids located on the site.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government's decision to complete the Site C dam: «This decision was clearly difficult for Premier Horgan and his government, and hopefully no future government finds itself in a situation like this.

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

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.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are challenging the B.C. Liberals to restore independent oversight and to push for expanded public hearings into the proposed Site C dam.

VANCOUVER — The Site C dam review panel's decision to include vital independent voices in their environmental review is a victory of common sense over Liberal interference, say the New Democrats.

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

Once the political reality of British Columbia is determined, next steps on energy projects like Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the Site C dam will follow.

To understand Site C's true impact on First Nations, you first had to look at the distressing impacts of the two existing dams on...

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«I can report that 320 small dams and dugout sites in 64 districts, in the northern part of the country, have been earmarked for development,» he said / He added:» Additionally, 192 will be evaluated in 2018 for development there.»

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.

CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.

«I can report that 320 small dams and dugout sites in 64 districts, in the northern part of the country, have been earmarked for development.

Walsh's campaign has emphasized completing such «unfinished business» as decommissioning the crumbling Binnewater Dam and final site plan review and approval for the Williams Lake Project.

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.

The protocol is designed to be applied one dam at a time, missing cumulative impacts of development as well as opportunities to identify the best sites and coordinate energy production across an entire river system, such as the Amazon.

If an operator proposes a site that is too close to an earthquake fault, or too close to oceanfront that is vulnerable to a tsunami or hurricane storm surge, or downriver from a huge dam that could burst, then the NRC should reject the bid.

A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry used American dippers to determine if run - of - river (RoR) dams altered food webs and mercury levels at 13 stream sites in British Columbia.

It was a different picture for sites near the dam.

That, plus the diversity of other wildlife found — frogs, fish, deerlets, hares — led Harington to conclude that around 3 million to 4 million years ago, the site was a beaver - dammed watering hole.

Study sites were distributed along a 240 - mile stretch downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, which was completed in 1963 for water delivery and hydroelectric power needs.

Rosi - Marshall explains, «Food web stability increased with distance from Glen Canyon Dam, with downstream sites near tributaries proving the most resistant.

Among the team's findings: following an experimental flood, sites near the dam had the most dramatic changes in the structure and function of their food webs.

«Our results suggest that sedimentation - driven methane emissions from dammed river hot spot sites can potentially increase global freshwater emissions by up to 7 percent,» said the report.

The off - road site is accessible to workers who maintain the power lines from nearby Hoover Dam to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, not to mention the recreational dirt bikers who occasionally zoom around the site's perimeter.

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.