Sentences with phrase «rivers dam project»

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The 1,172 - mile (1,885 - km) pipeline project, owned by Texas - based Energy Transfer Partners LP, is mostly complete, except for a segment planned to run under Lake Oahe, a reservoir formed by a dam on the Missouri River.

The utility says the two spillways alone are 17 - storeys high and five highway - lanes wide, making the contract the project's second - largest, just under the $ 1.75 billion contract inked in 2015 with Peace River Hydro Partners for the dam's foundation and other civil works.

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However, China's current domestic river development policies — which include major hydroelectric dams and a nationwide, south - to - north water diversion project — indicate this will not be easy.

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 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.

Coffer dams — a temporary barrier that allows work on a permanent dam to proceed — are already in place for many projects, such as the Ahai Dam on the Jinsha River, closing off yet more sections of the waterwdam to proceed — are already in place for many projects, such as the Ahai Dam on the Jinsha River, closing off yet more sections of the waterwDam on the Jinsha River, closing off yet more sections of the waterway.

But earthquakes have also been connected to past hydropower projects in China, where dams are often located in densely populated and seismically active river basins.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

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.

In the east tensions are rising as India expresses concerns about a spate of planned dam - building projects by China on rivers flowing into Indian territory, particularly on the mighty Brahmaputra.

The dam is one of several large hydro projects being built on tributaries of the Amazon River that are expected to damage pristine regions.

Not only will that add to the competition for water, but environmentalists also worry that dams like the controversial project on the Madeira River in western Brazil will block the flow of nutrient - bearing sediments and fish migration routes.

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, sealed off the river in June, creating a lake that will eventually stretch for 375 miles and generate 85 billion kilowatt hours of pollution - free electricity a year.

Similar conflicts are looming throughout the south and west, where efforts to protect the declining populations of freshwater fish, including salmon, sturgeon and the most recently listed species, the Californian delta smelt, are going to affect irrigation, the dredging of rivers and navigation, and projects to build dams and hydro - electric plants.

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

But surely this apparent harmony about the Mekong arises because the river has remained conspicuously free of large dams and other engineering projects to «tame» its waters.

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.

«Any time the river flows through that high and the channel moves or erodes, it will change places on the river,» said Mark Waters, Trinity River Authority project manager at the Lake Livingstonriver flows through that high and the channel moves or erodes, it will change places on the river,» said Mark Waters, Trinity River Authority project manager at the Lake Livingstonriver,» said Mark Waters, Trinity River Authority project manager at the Lake LivingstonRiver Authority project manager at the Lake Livingston Dam.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Next week marks the National Parks Service beginning the largest dam removal project in US history: The Elwha and Glines Canyon dams will be removed from the Elwha River in Olympic National Park.

The Macagua dam is a run of the river project near the confluence of the Caroni and the Orinoco.

But if all goes well, this will be the biggest dam removal and river restoration project our nation has ever seen.

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.

Dams, barrages, canals and extremely high pollution pose an ever - increasing threat to the health and life of the river, writes Brijesh Pandey IN THE upper reaches of the Ganga, numerous hydel projects threaten the river's ecosystem.

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...

On Wednesday, April 6th, American Rivers will join many other Klamath stakeholders at the mouth of the Klamath River on the Yurok Reservation in Requa California to sign two settlement agreements that will put the most significant dam removal and river restoration project the United States has seen back on track for completion in River on the Yurok Reservation in Requa California to sign two settlement agreements that will put the most significant dam removal and river restoration project the United States has seen back on track for completion in river restoration project the United States has seen back on track for completion in 2020.

This project will be the most significant dam removal and river restoration effort in the world — never before have four dams of this size been removed at once which inundate as many miles of habitat (4 square miles and 15 miles of river length), involving this magnitude of budget (approximately $ 295 million) and public works.

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

Coastal erosion occurs due to a combination of factors, including sea level rise, loss of sand supply (from the damming of rivers, shoreline structures that interrupt along - shore sand transport, dredging projects, and the paving of watersheds), and geologic changes in the land.

The Myitsone Dam, a 6,000 megawatt hydropower project, was slated to be built on the critical watersheds of the Irrawaddy River, displacing 18,000 people from nearly 50 villages and submerge their cultural heartland.

Hydropower projects encompass dam projects with reservoirs, run - of - river and in - stream projects and range from small to large scale.

It has usually been assumed that methane emissions are negligible from dam reservoirs in temperate regions and from run - of - river projects.

In addition to displacing river communities, large dam projects like the Three Gorges can cause significant environmental degradation.

While being touted for producing lower - emission electricity, these massive dam projects are wreaking havoc on river systems across China and Southeast Asia.

Dave Steindorf, special projects director at American Whitewater, a river advocacy nonprofit, believes conditions in the energy market have created a new incentive to remove some hydroelectric dams.

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That river - restoration project is slated to begin in 2020, a decade after American Rivers signed historic agreements to remove four dams and restore access to more than 350 miles of salmon habitat on the Klamath Rriver - restoration project is slated to begin in 2020, a decade after American Rivers signed historic agreements to remove four dams and restore access to more than 350 miles of salmon habitat on the Klamath RiverRiver.

The project's extremely high cost and the river's large seasonal variations in flow have led many to believe that after completing Belo Monte, Brazil will build other dams upstream with greater storage capacity to guarantee there will be enough water for Belo Monte to generate electricity year - round.

While many environmentalists are cheering the removal of dams as a way to bring health back to rivers and restore fisheries, a new project slated for Alaska could put one of the nation's tallest dams in place in the

Though sometimes termed small - hydro — which compared to massive dams I suppose is true — run of river projects of multi-gigawatt capacity have been developed.

That's just on land; building the dam (and this is true for both large - scale and run of river projects) disrupts the aquatic ecosystem as well, both upstream and downstream.

The dam in question, a major project between Nyagchu and Tawu County on a headwater tributary of the mighty Yangtze river, requires a large - scale displacement of local Tibetans who have inhabited the ancestral area for centuries.

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.

The Bhagirathi River already is constrained by the 2.4 GW Tehri Dam and hydroelectric project (pictured below), completed in 2006 downstream from Uttarkashi.

As Prof. Weng Lida, former head of the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, points out, in the context of the effect of the Three Gorges Dam project: