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.
Not exact matches
«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.
Having see what some
big dams have done to Swedish Lappland, for example, I feel like trading some of those
hydropower projects for nuclear energy might have been a net plus for the environment.
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