A previous California resources secretary proposed
building bigger dams on California's rivers as a solution to the water crisis.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
Likewise, he said the push for
building big new
dams is misguided.