Sentences with phrase «dam projects as»

He used Sudan's recent dam projects as one of the examples of this «responsible governance.»

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China has already spent approximately $ 180 billion to complete various projects, but many billions more will go toward building roads, ports, dams, high - speed rail, airports and more — all to «enhance regional connectivity,» as President Xi Jinping put it, and strengthen China's economic clout.

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

His advice to remove stressors on the land, such as dams, ditches, berms, and sand (where you can), and dig a new 3.5 - mile stream channel to let the water flow naturally across the watershed became the cornerstone of the project.

However, 70 % of the $ 1million for each of the constituencies will be spent on government's priority projects, such as the «One district - one factory, one village one dam, warehouses for planting for food and jobs, among others.

As a result, dams have received much criticism from academics in the social sciences, and national and international NGOs, culminating in anti-dam social movements like those seen against the Narmada project in India.

He said the number is part of the total of 320 small dams and dug - outs planned to be constructed in 64 districts in northern Ghana as part of the government's One - District - One - Dam project.

Walsh's campaign has emphasized completing such «unfinished business» as decommissioning the crumbling Binnewater Dam and final site plan review and approval for the Williams Lake Project.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

According to him, the NPP is exhibiting the same attitude its forebears adopted towards Ghana's first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah when he was undertaking development projects such as the Akosombo Dam and several others, projects that are still benefiting all Ghanaians today.

As part of that funding stream, Wilmington has also been tapped to receive $ 400,000 for Lake Everest Dam Improvements and other natural stream restoration and culvert projects.

The range of possible actions to hurricanes is limited to evacuation, large - scale engineering projects such as floodgates and dams, loss prevention (insurance), and the self - organization of society in recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of a hurricane disaster.

Coffer dams — a temporary barrier that allows work on a permanent dam to proceed — are already in place for many projects, such as the Ahai Dam on the Jinsha River, closing off yet more sections of the waterwdam to proceed — are already in place for many projects, such as the Ahai Dam on the Jinsha River, closing off yet more sections of the waterwDam on the Jinsha River, closing off yet more sections of the waterway.

The Water Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy describes as «a survival policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cut off.

Indeed, a host of speakers regarded ARPA — E's effort as an Apollo project, a Manhattan project, and Mike Splinter, CEO of Applied Materials, even called for ARPA — E to be part of a potential Marshall Plan for energy — a road map to a future of clean power, complete with the Hoover Dam of solar, or the like.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

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.

Rodrigues and other experts fear there could be more such cases in the future, as dams, highways, mines, and other development projects planned for the Amazon encroach on indigenous territories.

A project as ambitious as plugging the Red Sea isn't viewed as an immediate fix, but there is a comparable project underway to dam the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf to exploit the evaporative cycle and influx of seawater to generate vast quantities of hydroelectricity.

«Over the past 60 years, a myriad of dams have been built either to provide hydroelectric power, or for irrigation purposes, or as flood protection,» says Bernhard Lehner, a professor in McGill University's Department of Geography and the research director of the project.

As with the one - child policy, though, the systems scientists entrusted with studying the Three Gorges Dam devoted little time to consulting people whom the project would affect most.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

analysis of large scale projects such as dams, desalination plants and water transfer projects 3.

Uncontrolled and unregulated fast - paced development projects such as illegal road construction and dam prospecting within outstanding natural habitats.

Hunger As A Teacher is part of Caroline Caycedo's project Be Dammed, 2010 — , which addresses the privatization of waterways through the construction of dams, and the environmental and cultural effects of extractivism.

He does his own fieldwork, travelling extensively throughout China's rural areas, where entire villages have been demolished due to heedless industrialisation and to make way for vast, disruptive infrastructure projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

While in the Peace Corp, Rich helped dozens of villages, in Sakolnakorn Province, design and build infrastructure projects such as small dams and spillways.

Shibata is regarded as the preeminent Japanese contemporary landscape photographer, concentrating on civil engineering projects such as dams, waterfalls, and irrigation sluices.

Using traditional Song Dynasty landscape painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his paintings and scrolls often explore the effects of environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.

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.

A number of Fellows are also traveling across the country and abroad to present their work at venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (California), Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), Solomon Gallery (Florida), and the Dam Museum of Contemporary Art (Missouri), and in countries including China, Japan, Spain, and Italy.

When I was schoolboy we did projects on the Aswan High Dam, which was seen as a towering human achievement back in the seventies.

Large dams and democracy generally don't go well together, as projects — especially those that displace many people or flood important landscapes — generate strong protests.

Scarano focused on direct threats such as the Belo Monte dam project, as well as successful experiments at restoration, including efforts to revive degraded land using novel techniques, which in some places include planting non-native tree species as a way to create zones that provide suitable habitat for native seedlings to take hold.

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-...]

International Rivers monitors climate - earmarked funds such as the Green Climate Fund to prevent large dams from entering project pipelines, promotes the use of strong social and environmental standards and technical benchmarks, and pushes climate finance away from a business - as - usual approach towards more resilient water and energy solutions.

Todd has traveled to the Amazon a dozen times over the course of seven years to document the conflicts surrounding the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, and in early March 2016 he returned to the region as the dam's construction neared completion.

Ms. Aguirre works as part of International Rivers» Latin America program to support local movements for the protection of rivers; to identify new dam projects in Latin America and to examine their...

A natural gas turbine can reach about 350, while a coal plant equipped with carbon capture — such as the innovative Boundary Dam CCS project in Canada — can release less than 130 kg of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

This project will be the most significant dam removal and river restoration effort in the world — never before have four dams of this size been removed at once which inundate as many miles of habitat (4 square miles and 15 miles of river length), involving this magnitude of budget (approximately $ 295 million) and public works.

These restoration projects are important because they allow streams to flow freely and restore natural benefits when dams no longer function as intended or become unsafe.

Yet almost all new dams being built in China are being registered as CDM projects.

Some sectors, such as those involved in large water resource projects (e.g. building a new dam), are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

Myint Zaw and his colleagues» campaign came to a head when President Thein Sein halted the dam's construction and vowed the project will not proceed for as long as he's in office.

In 2011, in what many see as evidence of hope for Myanmar's fledgling democracy and the environmental movement, President Thein Sein halted the dam's construction and vowed the project will not proceed for as long as he's in office.

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.

While pressuring investors to withdraw their support for large hydropower projects has traditionally been the most effective way to stop a dam, occasionally putting pressure on the host government is enough to stop a project in its tracks — as was the case with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Ruth Buendia.

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For years, the group faced death threats and repression as they stood up to mining and dam projects that threatened to destroy their community.