The article «A decade on, controversy still surrounds China's Three Gorges Dam» in the journal Probe International says, «Despite the problems, the Three Gorges will be joined by a wave of new
hydropower projects over the next decade — mostly spread across China's mountainous and earthquake prone southwest.»
Not exact matches
In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a
project with several Russian companies to build five
hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged
over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to
project influence there.
Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that
over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large
hydropower projects.
U.S.
hydropower market size is
projected to grow
over 2 % owing to its large untapped hydro potential reserves.
«Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover
over recent decades are
projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability,
hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu - Kush, Himalaya, Andes)...»