Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric dams along»
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 --
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[97] The Akosombo Dam, built on the Volta River in 1965, along with Bui Dam, Kpong Dam, and several other hydroelectric dams provide hydropower.
Study sites were distributed along a 240 - mile stretch downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, which was completed in 1963 for water delivery and hydroelectric power needs.
One measure, a proposal to tear down four dams along a 140 - mile stretch of Oregon's Snake River, has made farmers and hydroelectric companies livid, especially in a year of local droughts and power shortages.
Some of the biggest hydroelectric dams globally that portray engineering marvel have been created along the major rivers such as the Nile and the Zambezi in Africa.
Along these parameters, Beijing seeks to bolster infrastructure by constructing bridges, railways, roads, pipelines, hydroelectric dams, and much more.
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.
Officials, however, are still pursuing the seemingly quixotic construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, along with the controversial hydroelectric Ilısu Dam project.
The struggle over dams in China's west has been brewing for years, fed by the kind of concerns that typically dog hydroelectric projects — land grabs, relocations, corruption, environmental damage — along with the less typical political and spiritual tensions surrounding Tibet.
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.