Sentences with phrase «big dams in»

In 1974 there was one big dam in that catchment, the Somerset.

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Almost every province will need people overseeing big projects — potash and mining in Saskatchewan, petroleum in Alberta and B.C., and hydro dams in Manitoba and Quebec — with job demand for most of these projects peaking around 2015.

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.

«There were stars from WCW like Booker T and Chris Jericho, and people thought there was the next big guy in Rob Van Dam.

CALIFORNIA: Things are picking up at Havasu and Mohave lakes, and below Parker Dam, but most action comes at midday and big bass are in deep water.

Charitable donations: Camp Tournesol continues to support the youth drop - in organization The Dam in Cooksville by cooking with the youth weekly, contributing food and time to their big holiday dinner and making a financial donation in your name.

Up to 25 % expected death rate in any given litter, macrosomic pups that block the canal and kill all the pups to follow, pups that are «too big to birth» so the bitch is euthanized because the owner can't afford a C - section, horrific rectal tears, sectioning dead calves just to get them out and save the dam, uterine atony, hypocalemia... the list of ways that «birth» can kill a dog or a cat goes on and on.

It is arguably the first singularly big development project to be completed by president Kagame's government, and is set to be the first of many with a further four Large Dams in the immediate pipeline and the Bugasera Airport under construction.

Now Wendy's brother is of course is Douglas Alexander, right hand man of Gordun, who got close to the big man way back in 1990 trundling around the UK behind him and being generally helpful, writing speeches that dammed markets, Thatcher and attacking privitisation program's.

Westchester County has big plans for this 720 - foot long pit in the county's popular Kensico Dam Plaza.

Faisal Hossain of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and colleagues looked at the magnitude of the biggest storms near 633 of the world's largest dams before and after construction.

«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.

The dam is the biggest in the world and can generate 18 gigawatts of power.

«Four famous domestic fishes» — the grass, silver, black and big carps — provide protein and a livelihood to more than 10 million Chinese, yet they are dwindling in the stretch of river beneath the Three Gorges Dam, victims of the dam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research InstituDam, victims of the dam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institudam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute.

Dams, big or small, have the potential to change a river's water flow, temperature, sediment, and ultimately the patterns in plant and animal diversity.

Dams and low marine survival rates are two of the biggest threats to many diadromous fishes, which spend part of their life in freshwater and part in the ocean.

Shennongjia, a nature reserve near the dam in Hubei province, is so undisturbed that it is famous for sightings of yeren, or «wild man» — the Chinese equivalent of «Big Foot» — as well as the only slightly more prosaic white monkey.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

Methane emissions from big hydroelectric dams in the tropics outweigh the benefits that this form of renewable energy provides, according to new scientific data

Any of hundreds of dams could be in danger of bursting when the next big one hits.

Some of the biggest hydroelectric dams globally that portray engineering marvel have been created along the major rivers such as the Nile and the Zambezi in Africa.

On this day the Dam Square in Amsterdam in turned into a big field full of fresh tullips were you can pick a bag of them for free!

The low 17.1 - degree approach angle was the Colorado's biggest off - road hindrance, and it required diligence to keep the front air dam from stuffing into rocks on the trail or trying to act as a plow in sand and snow.

In fact, the front looks more like one big bumper with a large air dam and dinner plate sized fog lamp and indicator inserts commanding attention.

I'm a big fan of the revised front end, with bigger air dams and a somewhat cheeky «Turbo» badge nestled in between the grille slats, but where the Elantra Sport gets real interesting is the rear end.

It does have larger air intakes in the front corners, but they aren't as big as the jag, so the Jag definitely wins that award, but they do sit in harmony with the size of the air dam and the headlights.

Our clients come from Corning, Painted Post, Elmira, Horseheads, Big Flats, Campbell, Bath, Beaver Dams, and many other places in the Southern Finger Lakes region.

Another big attraction in this area is the Hartebeespoort Dam, known to locals affectionately as «Harties.»

Although it is only a suburb of Pretoria, Tshwane, it is in close vicinity of many interesting places to visit, such as a Lion park, Cradle of Humankind, Sterkfontein Grottos, Hartebeespoort dam and its huge cultural artefact market, and Bela Bela with the biggest Water Feature Park in South Africa.

The home is set in a lightly wooded grounds with two dams — the bigger one with carp in it.

Maybe it stems from our primitive natures, that urge to hit things with the biggest dam stick we can find is still in us.

If I recall rightly, the flood level was within a metre of the last big flood before the flood - containment Wivenhoe Dam was completed in the 1980s.

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.

And the right thing simply can not include funding dirty energy and false solutions in any of their forms — fossil fuels and CCS, climate smart agriculture, biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear energy and big dams (and surely a few others as well).

We remember leading Iceland citizens into their own super malls to oppose the big dams and aluminum smelters; and we recall opposing the super ferry in Kauai; and also singing to tree - sitters up in the redwoods.

It is interesting to note that in California Gov. Jerry «Moonbeam» Brown pushed legislative reform of the state's environmental law (CEQA) to fast track and streamline concentrated solar farm installations without regard for loss of bird life and the habitat the birds live on (e.g. insects); and more recently has fast tracked the installation of expensive batteries on its electric grid in record time without the usual delays for environmental clearances (see: «A Big Test for Big Batteries», New York Times, Jan. 14, 2017) but apparently did not even have on a back burner a project to fix the open and notorious Oroville Dam spillway defects and deficiencies.

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?

U.S. Drought Monitor California http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA Once - In -1200-Year California Drought Bears Signature Of Climate Change http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/08/3600717/california-drought-climate-change-2/ Leading Scientists Explain How Climate Change Is Worsening California's Epic Drought The Water Levels Of The Middle East's Biggest Lake Have Dropped 95 Percent In Two Decades China's Largest Freshwater Lake Dries Up: Is the Massive Three Gorges Dam to Blame?

In the Northeast and Northwest, where a bigger portion of the power is produced with nuclear reactors, hydroelectric dams, natural gas - fired power plants and wind farms, an electric car will produce 76 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a typical gasoline - powered car and 56 percent fewer emissions than a hybrid.

In the United States, the Sierra Club's campaign against dams (which began for traditional conservationist reasons) received a big boost from Big Oil in California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purposeIn the United States, the Sierra Club's campaign against dams (which began for traditional conservationist reasons) received a big boost from Big Oil in California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purposbig boost from Big Oil in California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purposBig Oil in California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purposein California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purpose).

In December 2008, an International Rivers press release alleged that German utility RWE, one of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters in Europe, planned to buy carbon credits from the Xiaoxi dam in Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU laIn December 2008, an International Rivers press release alleged that German utility RWE, one of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters in Europe, planned to buy carbon credits from the Xiaoxi dam in Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU lain Europe, planned to buy carbon credits from the Xiaoxi dam in Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU lain Hunan — which failed to meet World Commission on Dams guidelines — and that would be a breach of EU law.

A sludge dam breach in Martin County, KY, in 2000, sent more than 300 million gallons of toxic coal sludge into tributaries of the Big Sandy, causing what the EPA called, «The biggest environmental disaster ever east of the Mississippi.»

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Of course there are gobs of money at stake, but the truth is that it could become the biggest mine of its type, as well as the world's biggest dam, smack in the middle of the world's largest salmon fishery.

America's 10 Most Endangered Rivers Of 2009 Biggest Dam Removal Project In History Will Restore Health of Klamath River

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 endinIn 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 endinin 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.

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.