Sentences with phrase «controversial dam project»
The most controversial dam project facing Brazil today, Belo Monte is a struggle about the future of Amazônia.
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Not only will that add to the competition for water, but environmentalists also worry that dams like the controversial project on the Madeira River in western Brazil will block the flow of nutrient - bearing sediments and fish migration routes.
His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the pProject series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the projectproject.
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.
Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.
via: The Guardian Large - Scale Hydropower Controversial Hydropower Project in Chile Enters Environmental Analysis Phase Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Yu Xiaogang on Hydropower and Community in China Three Gorges: China's Own Dam Problem
This past month was anything but short on developments of interest to environmentalists, with a deal being inked to build the Nabucco natural - gas pipeline, European funders pulling out of the controversial IlÄ ± su Dam project, and the final stage of Turkey's ban on indoor smoking going into effect.
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.
Indigenous protesters in Brazil and Sarawak rose up against controversial rainforest dam projects.
TH: The central and some local governments seem to be acknowledging the negative impact of dams, even the controversial Three Gorges project.
My bet is that in 20 years, British Columbians will be very happy that Site C was built, in the same way most of us are very happy previous B.C. governments built the B.C. Ferry system, the WAC Bennett dam, Expo 86, the Coquihalla and other B.C. highways, the 2010 Winter Olympics, the new Port Mann Bridge, the Golden Ears Bridge and other controversial (and expensive) projects.
The federal government is not going to argue against halting construction of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam in British Columbia while a B.C. court decides if the project violates constitutionally protected treaty rights.