Sentences with phrase «large dam projects»

When most people think of hydro - electric power they probably think of large dam projects such as China's Three Gorges Dam, India's dams on the Narmada River, or closer to home (at least to my home) the Hoover Dam.

A study funded by the European BIOFRESH project mapped 4203 freshwater species and 3521 land species on the African continent against preserves, large dam projects, protected species lists, and other factors.

In addition to displacing river communities, large dam projects like the Three Gorges can cause significant environmental degradation.

The Nyabarongo case thus demonstrates a level of local benefit not normally associated with large dam projects.

Not exact matches

The utility says the two spillways alone are 17 - storeys high and five highway - lanes wide, making the contract the project's second - largest, just under the $ 1.75 billion contract inked in 2015 with Peace River Hydro Partners for the dam's foundation and other civil works.

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

From constructing the world's largest dam to building a 26 - mile - long bridge, China is no stranger to ambitious infrastructure projects.

The project which is estimated to cost $ 100 billion, and if completed would be the world's largest hydroelectric plant is more than twice the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China.

It is arguably the first singularly big development project to be completed by president Kagame's government, and is set to be the first of many with a further four Large Dams in the immediate pipeline and the Bugasera Airport under construction.

It is unclear, however, to what extent oil revenues are distributed across the population, and whether there are governance projects beyond dams that benefit people at large.

The $ 138 million dam reconstruction — believed to be the largest public works project in the Catskills — was completed two years ahead of schedule.

Estimating that most large - scale projects need something on the order of Can $ 1 billion to become economically viable, Ball says that the Boundary Dam project wouldn't be able to go forward without a steady stream of revenue from the sale of CO2.

The range of possible actions to hurricanes is limited to evacuation, large - scale engineering projects such as floodgates and dams, loss prevention (insurance), and the self - organization of society in recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of a hurricane disaster.

Not to be outdone, the modern Chinese government has undertaken a massive project to control the flow of this ancient waterway, erecting Three Gorges, the world's largest dam, to block it.

Think of it this way: At the moment, a larger portion of household earnings in China are tucked away in banks, where they are loaned out and used to fund massive infrastructure projects — highways, dams, power plants — which release huge amounts of CO2.

The dam represents the single largest project in that municipality's 11th five - year plan, costing roughly $ 3.5 billion.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

Large dam - building projects in Iraq cut water inflow and eliminated a cleansing spring pulse of snowmelt into the Tigris and Euphrates, which fed the marshes.

Some 85 percent of all large dams will have passed their projected life spans by 2020.

Stories about microbial hitchhikers, the largest dam - removal project in North America, and issues raised by the new era of personal genomics are among the winners of the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

The dam is one of several large hydro projects being built on tributaries of the Amazon River that are expected to damage pristine regions.

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, sealed off the river in June, creating a lake that will eventually stretch for 375 miles and generate 85 billion kilowatt hours of pollution - free electricity a year.

But surely this apparent harmony about the Mekong arises because the river has remained conspicuously free of large dams and other engineering projects to «tame» its waters.

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Students conduct team experiments and learn about the Elwha Dam Removal Project, the largest in history.

Witness the world's largest engineering project at the Three Gorges Dam, then disembark in Yichang.

Photo: The desolated village of Arenal, with a main street paved by lava, was covered a few years later when Costa Rica's largest hydroelectric project, the Lake Arenal Dam, created an extensive water reservoir.

Be Dammed is a research - based project by artist Carolina Caycedo that explores concepts of flow and containment, investigating correlations between the mechanisms of social control and the unethical aspects of public works infrastructural projects including large water dams and reservoirs.

Next week marks the National Parks Service beginning the largest dam removal project in US history: The Elwha and Glines Canyon dams will be removed from the Elwha River in Olympic National Park.

Large dams and democracy generally don't go well together, as projects — especially those that displace many people or flood important landscapes — generate strong protests.

Scientific explanations do not incorporate presumptions about emotional reactions of the planet to human affairs, but it is possible that large scale projects like the Three Gorges Dam and its reservoir create new stresses in the Earth's crust leading to earthquakes.

The dam builders have tried to address one of the problems with traditional dams by designing projects that divert water through tunnels to power turbines rather than constructing large reservoirs, and by capturing silt and sending it back into the riverbeds.

The only large - scale projects are hydro dams that the World Bank is getting back into.

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.

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On the topic of hydro, another large project is Guri Dam in Venezuela.

International Rivers monitors climate - earmarked funds such as the Green Climate Fund to prevent large dams from entering project pipelines, promotes the use of strong social and environmental standards and technical benchmarks, and pushes climate finance away from a business - as - usual approach towards more resilient water and energy solutions.

So during the FDR New Deal era, large dam and hydro projects were built to mitigate these long / short, local / regional water cycles.

In a controversial move, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved three large hydro dam projects, despite concerns raised by civil society on the extensive adverse social and environmental effects these projects can have.

Some sectors, such as those involved in large water resource projects (e.g. building a new dam), are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Large - scale CCS projects in the power sector are now a reality, demonstrated by: * The world's first large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of Large - scale CCS projects in the power sector are now a reality, demonstrated by: * The world's first large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of large - scale power sector CCS project — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oproject — the Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject in Canada (CO2 capture capacity of 1 Mtpa)-- becoming operational in October 2014 * Commissioning activities on a new - build 582 megawatt (MW) power plant beginning at the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi (US, CO2 capture capacity of 3 Mtpa) with CO2 capture expected to commence in the first half of 2016 * The Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end oProject at the W.A. Parish power plant near Houston, Texas (US, CO2 capture capacity of 1.4 Mtpa) entering construction in July 2014, with CO2 capture anticipated by the end of 2016.

Documented since at least the 1920s, induced seismicity also has been attributed to a number of other human activities, including impoundment of large reservoirs behind dams, geothermal projects, mining extraction, construction and underground nuclear tests.

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.

A 320 - megawatt PV project — the world's largest — was completed in late 2013 alongside the Longyangxia hydropower dam in Qinghai.

Vimal Bhai is the founder of Matu Jan Sangathan, a collective that has been advocating for rights of communities impacted by large hydropower projects and dams in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

Hydropower projects encompass dam projects with reservoirs, run - of - river and in - stream projects and range from small to large scale.

It's also home to one of the world's largest mining projects at Olympic Dam.

2012 Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has been a leading voice of opposition to the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.

While pressuring investors to withdraw their support for large hydropower projects has traditionally been the most effective way to stop a dam, occasionally putting pressure on the host government is enough to stop a project in its tracks — as was the case with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Ruth Buendia.