Sentences with phrase «major hydroelectric dam»

However, China's current domestic river development policies — which include major hydroelectric dams and a nationwide, south - to - north water diversion project — indicate this will not be easy.

Dams Simultaneous with the hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in highways, several major hydroelectric dams are in the planning or initial construction phase.

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But as this week's Oroville, California dam crisis illustrates, hydroelectric energy technology comes with a major yet infrequent risk: Catastrophic collapse and flooding.

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.

Fifty - six hydroelectric dams span the Columbia, Snake, and other major tributaries in the basin.

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.

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The Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex has two major dams — Santo Antonio and Jirau — in Rondonia, within 200 km of Pando, that will cost an estimated ten billion dollars, although the global financial crisis may create problems for this investment.

Employing a political ecology framework, I endeavor to articulate the multiple levels at which this issue unfolds, describing the correlation between the circulation of climate change discourse and the resurgence of hydroelectric power at the global level; how this situation has been engaged at the national level within contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades.

Located in America's Pacific Northwest - in close proximity to a number of power - producing hydroelectric dams - the Giga Watt Project is proving to be North America's new major crypto mining player.