Sentences with phrase «large hydropower dams»

Thirteen large hydropower dams are proposed for the main stream of the Nu River in Tibet and Yunnan Province in China.

«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»

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As a result, many private landowners and corporations can leverage easier environmental permitting to build small hydropower dams for a fraction of the time and cost of large dams.

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.

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.

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Roughly 16 percent of the world's electricity comes from hydropower, most of it from large dams.

Because most large dams in the United States were built before 1980, the country's hydropower capacity has remained relatively stable in recent decades.

This push to demolish large dams on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest, which got 70 percent of its electricity supply from hydropower as of 2009, has been criticized by influential policymakers, such as House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R - Wash.).

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.

About 17 percent comes from hydropower, much of it from large dams in the northeast.

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.

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.

Other flexible low - carbon resources could include geothermal and hydropower dams with large reservoirs.

Kenyan Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has dedicated her life to fighting the construction of the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.

Controversy over the Chinese dams recently led the European Climate Exchange (ECX), the world's leading market for trading carbon credits, to renew its ban on large hydropower Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), which are carbon credits issued by the CDM executive board.

By March 6, 16.32 million CERs had been issued for 132 dams, and China accounted for 71.52 per cent of the 653 large hydropower projects in the world that have been registered or are seeking registration under the CDM to sell CERs, according to International Rivers.

Large - scale hydropower dams certainly can provide a lot of power and are a renewable resource — assuming the water source doesn't decline, an real concern with climate change but something beyond the scope of this piece.

In the worst - case (large dams flooding forested areas) hydropower's greenhouse gas emissions and effects on biodiversity can be as bad as any fossil fuel.

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Though it's certainly true that hydropower is a better option than profligate burning of coal for China, surely there are more eco-friendly ways to tap into China's world - leading hydropower resources than continued building of large - scale dams.

There Are Better Hydropower Options Than Large Dams All of this rightly raises red flags among environmentalists, especially considering the problems with Three Gorges.