Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric dam»

The reason for this is that utility company Hydro - Quebec has been turning down more clients as the already existing mining operations are already placing a heavy demand for the hydroelectric dam's power.

He also stated that it was a possibility that the hydroelectric dam would not be able to meet all the power needs for the mining projects.

MONY has also been active in helping communities, such as its financial assistance, along with large and small banks, in building a $ 28 million hydroelectric dam project in Massachusetts in 1976.

The federal government is not going to argue against halting construction of the controversial Site C hydroelectric dam in British Columbia while a B.C. court decides if the project violates constitutionally protected treaty rights.

In Thomas representatives of the Saik» uz and Stellat» en First Nations brought an action for alleged damages arising out of the construction and operation of a hydroelectric dam, authorized by the Government of British Columbia, by Rio Tinto Alcan and its predecessors on the Nechako River since the early 1950s.

Evaluated the balance of economic, environmental, and land - use factors in routing a $ 125 million, 700 kilometre interstate electrical transmission line — managing Oregon's first such investigation and approval — and in raising a hydroelectric dam

I think everyone in British Columbia would agree that The Big News this December was the final approval to keep building the Site C Hydroelectric Dam on the Peace River near Fort St. John.

Site C is the third hydroelectric dam on the Peace and, when completed, would provide 1100 MW of electrical capacity, producing 5100 GW hours of electricity annually which is apparently enough to power the equivalent of 450,000 homes per year in B.C..

Counsel for a coalition of Alberta First Nations participating in the environmental assessment of a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Peace River and associated judicial review proceedings.

Leading a team for Conservation International, David Emmett began working in the region to protect critical otter habitat that had become degraded and was threatened by a hydroelectric dam proposal.

Despite decades of legal and political wrangling to halt the building of a massive hydroelectric dam facility at Belo Monte, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, all seemed lost as earth - movers and construction teams began arriving in drove to the site earlier this year.

Shoot me an e-mail at paula at treehugger dot com More On The Brazilian Amazon Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil Brazil Confirms Huge and Controversial Hydroelectric Dam in the Amazon New Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Discovered in Brazil The Amazon Jungle and a New York City Girl

Brazil's proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over.

The fight against the hydroelectric dam has drawn the support of a top Turkish pop star and a Nobel laureate, as well as 37 municipalities, environmentalists, the Turkish Doctors Union, and many volunteers.

After decades of demonstrations and protests against the building of an enormous hydroelectric dam at Belo Monte in the lush Brazilian rainforest, the government has finally given approval to begin construction.

Not only are they in the wind business, they're vested in a controversial hydroelectric dam in Brazil.

The plan for yet a third hydroelectric dam which could supply most of Africa's needs is still in «negotiations.»

In Rio Blanco on February 20, 2016, Berta Cáceres, COPINH, and the community of Rio Blanco faced threats and repression as they carried out a peaceful action to protect the River Gualcarque against the construction of a hydroelectric dam by the internationally - financed Honduran company DESA.

Basic layout of a run - on - the - river / Yangtze River in China is currently the world largest hydroelectric dam.

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Now propose building a hydroelectric dam and watch what happens next.

Berta Cáceres, a Goldman prize recipient in 2015, was killed by gunmen in her home in March 2016 after leading a grassroots campaign against a hydroelectric dam proposed in her native Honduras.

An unusual combination of warm and wet weather in the second half of January and early February melted low - elevation snow, filling hydroelectric dam reservoirs on the Columbia and Snake Rivers and boosting hydro generation.

For example, Colombian documentary filmmaker Bladimir Sánchez Espitia has been repeatedly threatened for his coverage of mining projects and hydroelectric dam development.

Motion means kinetic energy, which can be captured, just like the energy in moving water can be captured by the turbine in a hydroelectric dam.

In particular, the enormous Itaipú hydroelectric dam, a 50:50 project jointly owned with neighbouring Paraguay, was extended to 14GW capacity in 2006/2007.

James Cameron, the multimillionaire producer of the most lucrative movie in history, Avatar, paints his face and joins the disaffected to protest a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon.»

The company she is battling is one of the world's largest gold mining companies, whereas Cáceres had been fighting one of Latin America's largest hydroelectric dam projects that would destroy the lands of the indigenous Lenca people.

Since turbines are the most expensive part of a hydroelectric dam, placing over 11,000 MW of capacity in a run - of - river dam without sufficient river flow to use most of the turbines for much of the year makes the dam economically unviable.

PANAMA CITY, Panama and GENEVA, Switzerland In a landmark decision, Panama's National Environmental Authority (ANAM) temporarily suspended the construction of the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam yesterday over non-compliance with its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

Rather than offering one - size - fits - all solutions that ignore the differences between places and people — the monocultural landscape of the American lawn, the hydroelectric dam on the salmon run, the factory built to overcome the rules of the natural world — cradle - to - cradle designs are informed by the recognition that all sustainability is local.

To build a hydroelectric dam, acres of land must be flooded, which causes decomposition and release of greenhouse gases.

he gigantic Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, located on the Xingu River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, stood just weeks away from beginning operation this week — but the...

On the one side are entrenched business and political interests dead - set on building a massively impactful hydroelectric dam, unmoved by the social, environmental, and cultural upheavals the project entails.

Moreover, Ethiopia — never enamored of the agreement — has announced plans to build a huge hydroelectric dam on its branch of the Nile that would reduce the water flow to Egypt even more.

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 --

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.

It's the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam - the very source and symbol of the energy - sucking, resource - devouring industrial culture they despise.

«The House at Kawinal,» the artist's first solo exhibition in the US, will present a recent performance for video, Life in His Mouth, Death Cradles Her Arm (2016), together with a new body of sculptures inspired in part by the artist's research into the effects of the construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala in the early 1980s.

I know that you have been deeply troubled by the environmental disruptions in China and the enormity of their consequences, in particular the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.

«Mirage» is a sand - devastated luxury villa suited for all play styles, while «Hydro» is a massive hydroelectric dam in Pakistan lined with long - range vantage points perfect for sniping.

Opponents must dodge the floodwaters in «Hydro» as they contend for dominance of this hydroelectric dam facility in Pakistan, filled with treacherous spillways.

All of these courses are unique to Sega Rally 3, though some elements of Sega Rally Revo are noticeably present — it seems that in many cases, the most memorable turns have been cherry - picked for inclusion (in particular, Canyon's long easy right on the hydroelectric dam, and Alpine's multiple hairpins).

The Costa Rican Electrical Institute (ICE) was building the hydroelectric dam to create the Arenal reservoir — now one of the country's most important sources of electric energy.

The Lake Arenal hydroelectric dam was built in 1979 and now produces nearly 18 % of the country's total electricity.

It is the world's largest hydroelectric dam and is considered a miraculous modern engineering feat.

From here we take the zigzagged trail down to the hydroelectric dam on the Urubamba River and then to the bustling tourist town now known as Machu Picchu Pueblo (formerly called Aguas Calientes).

But for all its badass credentials, its power output of a hydroelectric dam and its stunning production - car lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the ZR1 doesn't really seem to want to kill you all that bad.

WHAT: Three radical environmentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard) plot to blow up a hydroelectric dam in order to raise awareness.

That operation is to blow up a hydroelectric dam, one of several that's been erected on an Oregon river, and the intention is as much symbolic as anything: as Josh says, «People are going to start thinking.