Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric dam on»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.

From 1951 to 1952, China built the giant hydroelectric dam on the Ruhe River with help from the Soviet Union.

Russia and the United States do not have significant hashing power yet, but there is evidence their mining activity is growing.The world's first full - service mining solution providerNestled in Wenatchee, Washington, located close to a number of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, the Giga Watt Project is becoming a significant player in North American crypto mining.Giga Watt is fueled by five megawatts of power dedicated to mining resources, with an additional 50 in development.

A World Bank study indicates that glacial melt it is likely to raise generating costs at hydroelectric dams on rivers fed by melt water.

The participants voiced a wide range of concerns, from the impact of hydroelectric dams on American Indian populations to the E.P.A.'s review of mountaintop removal coal mining permits to the longevity of a green jobs recovery.

Peru is planning a series of huge hydroelectric dams on the 1,700 - kilometer (1,056 - mile) Marañón River, which begins in the Peruvian Andes and is the main source of the Amazon River.

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If the company secured work on a hydroelectric dam in Venezuela, for example, should the power division take the lead, or the group overseeing that country?

It has been just over one year since construction began on the Site C hydroelectric dam and generating station in northeast British Columbia.

In 1999, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt pushed the plunger to dynamite the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine — the first operating hydroelectric dam in the nation ever to be intentionally destroyed, in this case to make way for fiDam on the Kennebec River in Maine — the first operating hydroelectric dam in the nation ever to be intentionally destroyed, in this case to make way for fidam in the nation ever to be intentionally destroyed, in this case to make way for fish.

[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.

The episode is not unique; just over a week ago, on October 29th, 218 workers shut down two construction sites of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam Project in eastern Cameroon.

NYPA operates several hydroelectric dams in the state, some of which are on waterways that are also classified as canals.

When analyzing water, for instance, according to Conservation International, researchers studied the value of the crops dependent on water for irrigation, as well as the value of the energy water generates through hydroelectric dams, among other factors.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

This is eight times the capacity of the Aswan Dam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in ParaguDam on the Nile, and 50 per cent more than the world's current largest hydroelectric dam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in Paragudam, the Brazilian - built Itaipu Dam on the River Paraná in ParaguDam on the River Paraná in Paraguay.

Coming from Washington State, which is highly dependent on large hydroelectric dams for its electricity, McMorris Rodgers is a vocal supporter of hydropower and nuclear energy and has sponsored legislation expanding the development of small hydroelectric dams nationwide — a valuable source of renewable energy.

An amendment proposed in Brazil may soon make it impossible to challenge the construction of hydroelectric dams, like this one on the Madeira River.

Some said their approach was flawed, and, for example, relied too heavily on energy storage solutions and on adding turbines to existing hydroelectric dams to get extra power: see www.pnas.org/content/114/26/672 2

That snow not only provides our drinking water, it powers the hydroelectric dams that keep our lights on.

Existing smelters rely mainly on hydroelectric power — dams that have flooded river valleys across Iceland.

NIGHT MOVES is the fifth film from Kelly Reichardt (MEEK»S CUTOFF) and follows the life of three radical environmentalists who come together to take on a very specific challenge: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Their society is turned on its head when a group of humans, led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke) and trying to restart a hydroelectric dam, stumbles across the apes.

Moving on quickly and before I digress even further, Reichardt's film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard plus Rising starlet Katherine Waterston (click here for more info on her) and focuses on those initial three and their plans of blowing up a hydroelectric dam.

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.

Enter the base of Hoover dam on a guided tour and hear the vibrating hums of rushing water and Hydroelectric Turbines.

Their epic passage has since been obstructed by poachers that have left sturgeon critically endangered in the wild, along with the construction of the pair of hydroelectric dams at the Iron Gates, the scenic 83 - mile long stretch of the Danube separating Serbia on one side with Romania on the opposite bank.

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).

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.

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The Indian government has put large hydroelectric projects on the Indus in Kashmir, and the vast majority of electricity created by these dams is routed south out of the state of Jammu - Kashmir.

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 entailOn 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 entailon building a massively impactful hydroelectric dam, unmoved by the social, environmental, and cultural upheavals the project entails.

Almost all of Switzerland's electricity comes from hydroelectric dams and the country's five nuclear reactors, which on their own account for 40 percent of its electricity mix.

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...

TVA is technically a federal corporation — a government entity that is operated like a corporation — originally focused on providing low - cost energy via flood control and hydroelectric dams, among other initiatives.

Some are already widely deployed, like pumping water behind hydroelectric dams; others are coming on fast, like banks of modern batteries.

From National Geographic: This is much more than an academic exercise in a region that's home to one of the largest networks of hydroelectric dams in the United States, a recent boom in wind installations, and state mandates for renewables on the grid.

Hydroelectric dams will not come up on five Chilean rivers, at least for now.

The tapes captured the head of the climate sector admitting they'd contacted Pinguelli to help with the section on hydroelectric dams, because they knew he'd give them a small number for reservoir emissions.

It's an update on the many positive impacts to the river ecosystem after removal of the Glines Canyon and Elwha hydroelectric dams, writes Russ Finley.

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

Some criticized that paper for relying too heavily on adding turbines to existing hydroelectric dams — which the group suggested in order to increase peak electricity production without changing the number or size of the dams.