Sentences with phrase «hydro dam project»

In a move to bring the contentious Barro Blanco hydro dam project towards its completion, the Panamanian authorities have given the green light to begin flooding the reservoir.

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.

Not exact matches

Almost every province will need people overseeing big projects — potash and mining in Saskatchewan, petroleum in Alberta and B.C., and hydro dams in Manitoba and Quebec — with job demand for most of these projects peaking around 2015.

The dam is one of several large hydro projects being built on tributaries of the Amazon River that are expected to damage pristine regions.

Similar conflicts are looming throughout the south and west, where efforts to protect the declining populations of freshwater fish, including salmon, sturgeon and the most recently listed species, the Californian delta smelt, are going to affect irrigation, the dredging of rivers and navigation, and projects to build dams and hydro - electric plants.

The only large - scale projects are hydro dams that the World Bank is getting back into.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

On the topic of hydro, another large project is Guri Dam in Venezuela.

So during the FDR New Deal era, large dam and hydro projects were built to mitigate these long / short, local / regional water cycles.

At a CDM executive board meeting in March, the board suspended TUV SUD from auditing hydro projects, as it had approved dams that were later found to have problems.

Though sometimes termed small - hydro — which compared to massive dams I suppose is true — run of river projects of multi-gigawatt capacity have been developed.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

When most people think of hydro - electric power they probably think of large dam projects such as China's Three Gorges Dam, India's dams on the Narmada River, or closer to home (at least to my home) the Hoover Ddam projects such as China's Three Gorges Dam, India's dams on the Narmada River, or closer to home (at least to my home) the Hoover DDam, India's dams on the Narmada River, or closer to home (at least to my home) the Hoover DamDam.