Sentences with phrase «by dam projects»

Local people can also be displaced by dam projects, causing further deforestation when these people resettle elsewhere.

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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.

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

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Perhaps inevitably, dam projects have thus frequently created poverty and damaged ecologies, for example by causing displacement and by undermining useful ecological phenomena like annual flooding that spreads irrigation water and fertile soil.

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.

GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES NY WORKS PROJECTS TO RESTORE AND REPAIR FLOOD CONTROL SYSTEMS AND DAMS IN THE HUDSON VALLEY added by dskriloff on April 16, 2012 View all posts by dskriloff →

Lawmakers cut Astorino's plans for an enhanced Kensico Dam from the budget; an extensive project to revamp the area was announced by the county executive back in October and would have poured upwards of $ 17 million into a revamped reflecting pool and skating rink.

-- The NPP's one village one dam project in the Northern region will be funded by the $ 1m / 1 constituency programme

The accelerated state funding will leverage $ 10 billion in direct capital investment to create thousands of direct jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges; parks, dams and flood control projects; upgrading water systems and educational facilities; and investing in energy efficient improvements to commercial and residential buildings.

But freshwater fish are beginning to return, thanks to an $ 86 million project financed by the World Bank that saw construction of a new dam and dykes.

The Yangtze's newest dams include several smaller projects that are necessary to alleviate sedimentation caused by the Three Gorges reservoir.

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.

Some 85 percent of all large dams will have passed their projected life spans by 2020.

Stories about microbial hitchhikers, the largest dam - removal project in North America, and issues raised by the new era of personal genomics are among the winners of the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

The dam, part of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric scheme in Slovakia, is bitterly opposed by neighbouring Hungary, which was a partner in the project but has now pulled out.

Only by acting together, with joint cross-border projects and transfer schemes — not to mention promises not to bomb each other's dams — can nations effectively harness their water supplies.

Leslie brings home the cost of such projects by following an engineer, a bureaucrat, and, most powerfully, activist Medha Patkar, who has threatened to drown herself in the rising waters behind India's giant Narmada dam.

Alternatively, some historians consider electronic books to have started in the early 1960s, with the NLS project headed by Doug Engelbart at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), and the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS projects headed by Andries van Dam at Brown University.

On 10 December, the day after the conference, we organize a field trip for interested participants to two community projects in Makueni county, southeast of Nairobi, operated by the African Sand Dam Foundation (ASDF).

Then, in 2006, the long - held vision by Birdlife Africa's Mark Anderson to build a major artificial S - shaped breeding island project to encourage the lesser flamingo to breed on the dam, got the go ahead with funding from Ekapa Mining.

Photo: The desolated village of Arenal, with a main street paved by lava, was covered a few years later when Costa Rica's largest hydroelectric project, the Lake Arenal Dam, created an extensive water reservoir.

Carolina Caycedo Be Dammed Exhibition: October 14 - December 20, 2013 Main Gallery Opening reception: November 16, 6 - 9 pm RSVP recommended: https://opening16nov2013.eventbrite.com/ Be Dammed is a research - based project by artist Carolina Caycedo that explores concepts of flow and containment,...

I know that you have been deeply troubled by the environmental disruptions in China and the enormity of their consequences, in particular the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.

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.

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.

Concurrent with The Family Acid, the project space features selections from The Day the Dam Collapses by renowned photographer Hiroshi Watanabe.

Hikaru Fujii: ASAHIZA — Ningen wa, doko e iku November 15 - 21 Eurospace, Shibuya Born and raised in the village of Tokuyama, Gifu Prefecture, Tazuko Masuyama began making photographs in 1977, at the age of 60, in order to document her home, her neighbors and their environs before they were inundated by a planned dam project, and continued shooting until her death in 2006 (the dam was completed in 2008).

Be Dammed is a research - based project by artist Carolina Caycedo that explores concepts of flow and containment, investigating correlations between the mechanisms of social control and the unethical aspects of public works infrastructural projects including large water dams and reservoirs.

One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, the Turkish town of Hasankeyf, could see its cultural and natural richness lost by 2013, drowned in the reservoir for the Ilısu Dam, a controversial project that has lately drawn renewed attention.

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The dam builders have tried to address one of the problems with traditional dams by designing projects that divert water through tunnels to power turbines rather than constructing large reservoirs, and by capturing silt and sending it back into the riverbeds.

Look at the Three Gorges Dam in China, a project that has been damned by virtually everyone.

The Indian government has put large hydroelectric projects on the Indus in Kashmir, and the vast majority of electricity created by these dams is routed south out of the state of Jammu - Kashmir.

But IMHO in following the dam constructions and flow and sedimentation delays, it was pretty clear that for several years the Carribean was impacted by the changes to the Orinoco from huge hydroelectric projects in the region.

On the one side are entrenched business and political interests dead - set on building a massively impactful hydroelectric dam, unmoved by the social, environmental, and cultural upheavals the project entails.

Washington, DC 6 December 2017 A new report by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace estimates that in 2016, as a result of a new class of policy tools, almost $ 5 billion was spent on efforts to offset the impacts that new highways, dams, mines, and other infrastructure and development projects have on nearby species -LSB-...]

View across Baker Lake impounded by Baker Dam to the glaciers on Mount Baker that feed this hydropower project.

In a controversial move, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved three large hydro dam projects, despite concerns raised by civil society on the extensive adverse social and environmental effects these projects can have.

Large - scale CCS projects in the power sector are now a reality, demonstrated by: * The world's first large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oproject — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of 2016.

Among these developments is the Myitsone Dam, a 6,000 megawatt hydropower project proposed by a Chinese state - owned dam developDam, a 6,000 megawatt hydropower project proposed by a Chinese state - owned dam developdam developer.

Vimal Bhai is the founder of Matu Jan Sangathan, a collective that has been advocating for rights of communities impacted by large hydropower projects and dams in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

A keynote address was given by Mike Monea, SaskPower President of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Initiatives, who provided an update on the Boundary Dam CCS project.

Because of this, the area around Olympic Dam is favored by solar project developers for near - term development of concentrating solar power projects.

The article «A decade on, controversy still surrounds China's Three Gorges Dam» in the journal Probe International says, «Despite the problems, the Three Gorges will be joined by a wave of new hydropower projects over the next decade — mostly spread across China's mountainous and earthquake prone southwest.»

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Copeland said that he thought Ivanpah was an important milestone in the US energy landscape and in that regard it was similar to the Hoover Dam, another milestone project worked on by Bechtel.

Such waters are being threatened by several upstream dam projects in neighboring Turkey.

In many cases, such areas would be difficult to defend by dikes and dams, and such a large sea level rise would require responses ranging from potentially large and expensive engineering projects to partial or nearcomplete abandonment of now - valuable areas as critical infrastructure such as sewer systems, gas lines, and roads are disrupted, perhaps crossing tipping points for adaptation (Kwadijk et al., 2010).