Sentences with phrase «big dam built»
It will also be the first big dam built in the province since 1984 and will become B.C.'s fourth - largest producer of electricity.
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Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.
Hydro Quebec built that huge dam on the LaGrande, but so far its plans for even bigger dams have been stalled; across North America, people concerned about the rights of the Cree Indians, about the caribou, about the sheer existence of a vast wilderness, have scrapped and battled to rein in the project.
That's why The Nature Conservancy is working on a plan that would invest Chongqing's dam - building money into making the other dams upstream slightly bigger.
A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California's rivers as a solution to the water crisis.
Why not start solving this problem, in our own community, and not with the small stuff, like bags and bottles, but with the big stuff like killing tens of thousands of trees and building unneeded dams and pipelines?
That was one of the big reasons they built the Somerset Dam: to achieve a lower level on the city flood gauge so as to protect property and lives.
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They waged a successful grassroots campaign that resulted in the world's biggest dam builder pulling out of a plan to build on the Rio Blanco, which would have been terribly destructive for Indigenous communities.
In a surprise move, the Brazilian government has announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long criticized by environmentalists and indigenous groups, is ending.
I think everyone in British Columbia would agree that The Big News this December was the final approval to keep building the Site C Hydroelectric Dam on the Peace River near Fort St. John.
Likewise, he said the push for building big new dams is misguided.