Sentences with phrase «narmada dam project»

«A man is not a foreman on a dam project because he wants to be macho.

«Then also huge irrigation dam project when completed will provide more than 5,000 jobs.

The Nyabarongo case thus demonstrates a level of local benefit not normally associated with large dam projects.

Perhaps inevitably, dam projects have thus frequently created poverty and damaged ecologies, for example by causing displacement and by undermining useful ecological phenomena like annual flooding that spreads irrigation water and fertile soil.

This article explores aspects of Rwanda's flagship dam project that indicate the government's wider approach to development politics.

He used Sudan's recent dam projects as one of the examples of this «responsible governance.»

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.

The Kuffour administration initiated the Bui Dam project with Chinese facility to be paid partly with our cocoa.

We are thankful that the one village one dam project is fully on course and will be launched in a few weeks

He said the number is part of the total of 320 small dams and dug - outs planned to be constructed in 64 districts in northern Ghana as part of the government's One - District - One - Dam project.

President Mahama, also inaugurated an expanded water project for Bawku and other towns which are water starved and cut the sod for a three thousand hectare irrigation dam project.

The Tamne Irrigation dam project has been on the wish list of the people of Bawku and surrounding towns since the 1970's.

From there, the President will inspect a water project in Bawku and cut sod for Tamme dam project.

The president, Nana Akufo - Addo who gave the keynote address at the 33rd Farmers» Day celebration in Kumasi on December 1, 2017 said that in line with the government's target of promoting all - year - round cropping, 320 small dams and dugout in 64 districts in the Northern Region have been earmarked to be developed under the One - Village - One - Dam project.

The community was also ready to provide land for the one village one dam project, to create job opportunities for the people.

-- The NPP's one village one dam project in the Northern region will be funded by the $ 1m / 1 constituency programme

Kampe Omi Dam Project is breathing down on the leading rice producers in the country.

The Ministry signed a memo with the Chinese government for funding along the Bui Dam project, which was to start from January 2009, Ghana government was to firm the process with China and commence work with 30 % counterpart local funding.

INDIAN LAKE — In an executive session following the February Indian Lake Town Board Meeting, the Abanakee Dam Project was given the nod to move forward at the end of the 2016 whitewater rafting season.

Matthews saw this take place in Nepal, where low water levels rendered a brand - new dam project ineffective and cut off the water supply farther downstream.

The council began investigating the beaver option after learning that the state was considering artificial dam projects that might cost billions of dollars.

Estimating that most large - scale projects need something on the order of Can $ 1 billion to become economically viable, Ball says that the Boundary Dam project wouldn't be able to go forward without a steady stream of revenue from the sale of CO2.

«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Although Brazil's energy - hungry economic boom has driven the nation to tap the Amazon's vast hydroelectric potential, the resulting deforestation accompanying its dam projects has reduced the available waterpower

The dam project, in planning for 30 years, has stirred opposition among environmentalists and celebrities, including the singer Sting and Hollywood director James Cameron, who compared the conflict to a «real life» version of his film Avatar.

Britain's Overseas Development Administration has launched an attempt to rescue the Sardar Sarovar dam project on India's Narmada River.

Vicente Comes, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, which is responsible for the dam project, said that «environmentally - kind alternatives would be studied before a final decision was made.»

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

The setting of Lost River is its most compelling feature, a decaying city that owes its existence to a dam project that washed out another city like an aquatic Pompeii.

From the hordes of labor camp women working on a dam project, one is called in for a meeting with General Yevgraf Zhivago (Lean favorite Alec Guinness).

This choice, coupled with a palate of broad swathes of green littered with more muted industrial hues, evokes the cities surrounding the Yangtze that were abandoned and submerged during the earth - moving Three Gorges Dam project.»

, which drew inspiration from the Three Gorges Dam project in China.

However, the issue of internal displacement and migration has been a topic within much of Xiaodong's work, particularly in his 2003 series, Displacement, which drew inspiration from the Three Gorges Dam project in China.

YFJ: It was really because of the Three Gorges dam project.

I know that you have been deeply troubled by the environmental disruptions in China and the enormity of their consequences, in particular the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.

Using traditional Song Dynasty landscape painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his paintings and scrolls often explore the effects of environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.

Hikaru Fujii: ASAHIZA — Ningen wa, doko e iku November 15 - 21 Eurospace, Shibuya Born and raised in the village of Tokuyama, Gifu Prefecture, Tazuko Masuyama began making photographs in 1977, at the age of 60, in order to document her home, her neighbors and their environs before they were inundated by a planned dam project, and continued shooting until her death in 2006 (the dam was completed in 2008).

The Cree people were about to enter negotiations to dispute a dam project that would flood land they had lived on -LSB-...]

While we are moving towards establishing a few major storage dam projects, even the extent to which we should do that — considering ecological impact and disaster preparedness — is worth discussing at the highest level.

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.

Scarano focused on direct threats such as the Belo Monte dam project, as well as successful experiments at restoration, including efforts to revive degraded land using novel techniques, which in some places include planting non-native tree species as a way to create zones that provide suitable habitat for native seedlings to take hold.

This past month was anything but short on developments of interest to environmentalists, with a deal being inked to build the Nabucco natural - gas pipeline, European funders pulling out of the controversial IlÄ ± su Dam project, and the final stage of Turkey's ban on indoor smoking going into effect.

Local people can also be displaced by dam projects, causing further deforestation when these people resettle elsewhere.

In a move to bring the contentious Barro Blanco hydro dam project towards its completion, the Panamanian authorities have given the green light to begin flooding the reservoir.

Ms. Aguirre works as part of International Rivers» Latin America program to support local movements for the protection of rivers; to identify new dam projects in Latin America and to examine their...

The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP) is a voluntary, non-binding auditing tool that allows dam builders to score the sustainability of their own dam projects.

View of the $ 8.3 Billion dam project proposed to be built at Site C on the Peace River in British Columbia, Canada.

In a controversial move, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved three large hydro dam projects, despite concerns raised by civil society on the extensive adverse social and environmental effects these projects can have.

According to Global Witness research at least 101 people were killed in the country between 2010 and 2014, linked to a surge in destructive agriculture, mining and dam projects.

The company she is battling is one of the world's largest gold mining companies, whereas Cáceres had been fighting one of Latin America's largest hydroelectric dam projects that would destroy the lands of the indigenous Lenca people.