Sentences with phrase «dam building in»

Unprecedented dam building in the Indian Himalayas holds serious consequences for biodiversity and could pose a threat to human lives and livelihoods, a team of [continue reading...]

Also, if you know anyone who doubts the scope of what humans have done to Earth systems, show him or her this short animation mapping 200 years of dam building in America (created by James P.M. Syvitski of the University of Colorado and shown at the London Anthropocene conference):

Named by English settlers, the first dam built in the city was in 1842 but the city itself was officially established and incorporated in 1856.

At the EVA International, their work will be woven into Guerrero's larger curatorial vision, which is based on Ardnacrusha, a hydroelectric dam built in 1925 in Ireland that represented technological progress and the promise of modernity.

However, as the Indus has many tributaries water flow continues downstream and the «majority of water experts in Sindh remain unaware of any dam built in Tibet.»

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.

Not exact matches

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

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.

Horgan said that in announcing the decision to build the dam, Premier Clark glossed over very serious issues around consultation with First Nations that have yet to be addressed.

So there's an 18 - per - cent contingency on dam construction components like the powerhouse, the dam itself and a 10 - per - cent contingency built in to non-construction components.

These spoil banks dam up waterways, which in turn worsens floods and builds up pollution.

Initially the smaller dams were built in the mountains, but in 1958 Vice Premier Tan Zhenlin decreed that the dam building should be extended into the plains of China.

We must seem very strange to Christians of the Third World, for example, in talking about love but then building economic dams so that we can control those rains God sends from heaven on the just and on the unjust.

Other dams had preceded this one; m fact, in the 18th century local farmers filed a series of legal suits against the various corporations that built dams on the river.

From Stearns I learned that the dam Thoreau saw was built in 1835 by a Boston business concern in order to supply water to the Middlesex canal and divert trade from Newburyport to Boston.

Sadly, villages that have improved their lot in such ways are sometimes wiped out by agribusiness or by flooding caused by a huge dam built to fulfill the goals of standard, top - down, development based on the individualistic model.

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.

Alas, the building of the new Brewery, Dam Bar and renovation of the main bar and restaurant in 2012 - 13 illustrates true North Country style.

It's actually a dam built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

The move to build dams and dugouts for all year round farming is a campaign pledge by President Akufo - Addo in the 2016 polls.

Additionally it would be wrong to claim that the Rwandan government's way of acting radically differs from that witnessed in past dam building.

There are significant differences between such typical past dam building and the Nyabarongo in Rwanda.

He is interested broadly in the politics of development, specialising in Africa and dam building, particularly in Rwanda and Tanzania.

Dr. Nduom was reacting to the «One Village, One Dam» promise made by the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP,) Nana Akufo - Addo and the ruling NDC's claim that it has been building dams in those areas already.

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.

The presidential candidate for the GCPP, Dr. Henry Lartey says Akufo - Addo's promise to build one dam in each village of the Northern region is an avenue to breed mosquitoes.

President Mahama gave the assurance that government would build an irrigation dam for the people to engage in all year farming activities.

Dr. Nduom made this appeal and more in a video news release issued following the «One Village, One Dam promise made by the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP,) Nana Akuffo Addo, and the ruling NDC's claim that it has been building dams in those areas already.

He added that the opposition leader's campaign promise of building one dam in each of the villages in the three northern regions is also a sham and urged the people to remain focused and have confidence in President John Dramani Mahama to continue with his good works.

In deed they are promising one dam to each district, I'm not sure if all these districts have a running stream so you can build a dam but they have promised is that,» she added.

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.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of constructioIn 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of constructioin 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

«One of the main reasons to build Three Gorges dam [was] to store water in the upper river so as to protect eastern parts of the country,» says Lai Hun Suen, a professor of sustainable development at Chongqing University and a municipal government official.

A new analysis forecasts severe habitat fragmentation in the western Amazon Basin if some of the 160 planned dams are built in the region, where 142 dams are already.

China is building hydropower at a record pace that has resulted in more dams — 26,000 — than in any other country.

And a planned dam, Xiaonanhai, that would be built in the middle of the last remaining untouched habitat of the Yangtze sturgeon, giant salamander and 66 other fish species of concern, says Yan Xie, China Program director for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

When Thailand flooded a rainforest to build a dam in 1986, it created an opportunity to study how isolation affects mammal populations.

For the first time in the two decades since it was built, the dam's reservoir was full last year, slowing down the Olifants's flow through the crocodiles» gorge.

Building small dams in small places doesn't help you with that.»

These structures are small enough to avoid the many regulations large dams face, and are built more quickly and in much higher densities.

Building dams in the Amazon also comes at the cost of endangering biodiversity and indigenous livelihoods.

Most falls in just four months, so the idea is to build dams to store these wet season rains, and irrigate the land during the eight bone - dry months.

They came in droves, supported by infrastructure the federal government built — including the Hoover Dam — and the water those facilities helped supply.

If built, it would be the third - largest dam in the world.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

The dam was built in 1956 to support rice farms.

After a spate of dam - building, the total volume of sediment in the river dropped — but the amount of coarse sand has remained the same.

Toxic species such as Chromulina sp. also have appeared in the Black Sea since the dam was built.