Sentences with phrase «dam projects like»

Central Government Be Damned But the central government, which is said to be investigating the incident in Sichuan, has also expressed concerns over dam projects like these before.

In addition to displacing river communities, large dam projects like the Three Gorges can cause significant environmental degradation.

Not exact matches

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.

Once the political reality of British Columbia is determined, next steps on energy projects like Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the Site C dam will follow.

Huge new projects like the Aswan Dam in Egypt have upset water balances in the soils and created new problems of salinity where none existed before.

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.

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.

We are calling on the President to also complete important projects like the Biu Dam and other federal roads in the constituency, among them, are the Biu - Numan - Yola and Biu - Gombi - Mubi roads.

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.

Developed countries got some of the flexibility they wanted: For instance, they can purchase emission credits from countries able to cut emissions beyond their required amount, or receive credit for emission reductions achieved through a project like a hydroelectric dam in a developing country.

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.

Flooding is also often a humanitarian disaster when it strikes and can be an aftereffect of big development projects, like hydroelectric dams.

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.

The setting of Lost River is its most compelling feature, a decaying city that owes its existence to a dam project that washed out another city like an aquatic Pompeii.

The byproduct of more universal schooling — or perhaps its main product — was the American teenager, «a New Deal project» much like the Hoover Dam, wrote cultural critic Thomas Hine.

Scientific explanations do not incorporate presumptions about emotional reactions of the planet to human affairs, but it is possible that large scale projects like the Three Gorges Dam and its reservoir create new stresses in the Earth's crust leading to earthquakes.

Having see what some big dams have done to Swedish Lappland, for example, I feel like trading some of those hydropower projects for nuclear energy might have been a net plus for the environment.

A dam to cut this flow sounds like an easily doable engineering project.

She opposed many projects which would have had detrimental impacts on the environment, like the creation of highways and dams.

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