Sentences with phrase «first dam built»

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.

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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.

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.

«One of first things the settlers did was to clear the forests for agriculture and build tens of thousands of dams to run their mills,» says Walter.

Since Egyptians built the first known dam around 2500 BCE, water managers have expected rivers to continue behaving as they have in the past.

Boundary Dam will be the first CCS project built on a commercial - scale power station.

When we first meet Ms. Ryan's character, Alice Bowman, she and her husband, Peter (David Morse), an American engineer supervising the building of a dam in Tecala, are bickering.

Weight has been reduced by 225 pounds, the frame is built from 98 percent high - strength steel for increased payload and towing, and the segment's first - ever deployable front air dam will work in conjunction with the mild hybrid systems to improve fuel economy.

Cars which feature additional Cibie driving lamps and Vantage style air dams and flip - tails are a non-standard modifications added sometimes many years after the cars were first built.

Early San Francisco Water In 1858, John Bensley dammed Lobos Creek at its mouth near Baker Beach and built a redwood flume that carried the water around to Fort Point and modern - day Fort Mason, marking the advent of the city's first permanent water supply.

They also build upon the collective histories of their chosen medium — clay as nature, clay as origin, clay as shelter, clay as dam, clay as vessel, clay as terra firma — and choose to play with those histories in their attempts to give the viewer pause while, simultaneously, addressing twenty - first - century aesthetics and concerns.

Since the 1970s, when plans were first conceived to build a massive hydroelectric dam along the Xingu river in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the forces of development have had to contest with unyielding voices of protest --

There was much controversy when the dam was built in the 1970s, as land was taken from many First Nation families.

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 of 2016.

While the ice build up is likely slow due to decreasing temps, the eventual increasing temperature begins to melt massive ice dams slowly at first with little change down stream.

In the first place, he describes the dam - building boom in Brazil as a crisis of astronomical proportions.

In one of the day's first hints of potential controversy, though, Eroğlu also called building dams «an absolute necessity» for water - poor Turkey, though such projects face stiff opposition from environmentalists and preservationists.

In a brilliant moment of foresightedness, the engineers that first erected the dam in the early 1980s built it on top of gypsym, which dissolves upon contacting water.

Oregon's first hydroelectric power station, the T.W. Sullivan Dam at Willamette Falls in Oregon City, built in 1888, is of the same general vintage.

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.

It argued that it had statutory authority to build and operate the dam, that the First Nations must first prove any Aboriginal Title as against the Crown and that the action was just a backdoor attack on the Crown's approval of theFirst Nations must first prove any Aboriginal Title as against the Crown and that the action was just a backdoor attack on the Crown's approval of thefirst prove any Aboriginal Title as against the Crown and that the action was just a backdoor attack on the Crown's approval of the dam.