Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric dams planned»

Hydroelectric dams planned for the tropical rivers of Mekong, Amazon and Congo could destroy local fish habitats and cause human populations to relocate, too.

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy — at a big cost

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Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Our plan includes an ambitious program of energy retrofits for public and private buildings, upgrades to maximize our existing hydroelectric dams, and an aggressive move toward renewable technologies like wind and solar power.

It was humdrum stuff — until one official mentioned in passing that this tree - lined curve in the river, a popular picnic spot for Hungarians, was to be drowned by a giant hydroelectric dam being planned in secret by a much - feared state agency known simply as the Water Management.

For the third time in a decade, a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, has rejected as inadequate the U.S. government's plan for making hydroelectric dams safer for endangered salmon and steelhead in the Pacific northwest.

The plan calls for virtually no new hydroelectric dams, but does account for energy gains from improving the efficiency of existing dams.

Together, they're planning to blow up a hydroelectric dam.

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.

The new film «Sudaki Suretler» (Figures in the Water) highlights local resistance to the more than 1,700 dams and hydroelectric power plants planned for Turkey.

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 --

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.

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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.

The Ilisu dam is part of Turkey's Southeast Anatolia Project, an economic development program that plans for 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric projects to boost irrigated agriculture in Turkey's poor and arid southeastern corner, affecting the water available to downstream Iraq.

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

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.

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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.