Sentences with phrase «many dams»

We are putting fingers in the dam wall at the moment.

Early in 2015, he was forced to extend another $ 30 - million loan to Imperial Metals Corp., in which he is the company's largest shareholder, to help with the cleanup after a tailings dam burst at its Mount Polley mine in 2014.

With hydro, you can store more water behind a dam, but just a fraction of what the snowpack holds.

With the dam broken and decades worth of accusations of sexual harassment and abuse finally flooding out, we're hearing more and more apologies from powerful creeps who took advantage of and dehumanized the women around them.

Eighteen percent of all electricity in the United States was produced by renewable sources in 2017, including solar, wind, and hydroelectric dams.

During his career, he has worked at several major facilities throughout Australia and overseas including GoldCorp, Olympic Dam Operations, Kwinana Nickel Refinery, Murrin Murrin Operations, Gordes Nickel, Black Swan and Lake Johnston.

The system is a gravity dam, meaning it relies on its own weight to resist the pressure of water that flows through it.

People attend Dutch National Tulip Day in front of the Royal Palace at Dam Square, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Construction began in 1975, when workers carved a 1.3 - mile - long, 300 - foot - deep, 490 - foot - wide diversion channel to re-route the Paraná River to make way for the dam.

Inside the dam, there are turbines, which turn from the water pressure and connect to electricity generators.

According to a March 2011 data analysis by reporter Phil McKenna at New Scientist, dams may be among the riskier power sources in the world.

From 1951 to 1952, China built the giant hydroelectric dam on the Ruhe River with help from the Soviet Union.

Dams can be amazing sources of renewable, carbon - free energy.

Measuring 643 feet tall and nearly 26,000 feet long, the Itaipú Dam is also the world's largest renewable energy complex.

When you include the deaths caused by the tragic 1975 collapse of China's enormous Banqiao Dam, hydroelectric can be considered one of the riskiest power sources.

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

In 2015, a group of Paraguayan protesters said that over 9,000 people did not receive payments for their work on the Itaipú Dam from 1974 to 1996.

On August 8, 1975, the dam collapsed and sent a wall of water nearly 20 feet (6 meters) high and 7.5 miles wide (12 kilometers) downriver, according to a summary of a chapter in the book «The River Dragon Has Come!»

Officials have not released information on what exactly caused the dam's structural problems, including a gaping hole in the middle of the spillway.

It wasn't enough to compensate for all the excess water brought in by storms, however, and heavy rainfall on Saturday caused the dam to overflow for the first time in its 49 - year history.

Not surprisingly, the state was somewhat unprepared for the dam's water levels to reach capacity, which they did — rapidly — on Thursday.

Daimler went big, bold and driverless last night, debuting America's first street - legal self - driving commercial freightliner on the Hoover Dam.

Here's what Lake Oroville, the body of water contained by the tallest dam in the US, looked like in August 2015, during the height of California's raging five - year drought:

This farm addresses that potential disaster and ensures the possibility of food production in times of scarcity with a system of 27 dams, soaks, tanks and high capacity bores.

At the time, the California Department of Water Resources reported that the dam itself was safe and did not pose a threat to downstream populations.

After the dam's water levels steadily rose from Thursday through the weekend, authorities on Sunday evening ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 residents in several northern California towns.

At 770 feet, it's the country's tallest dam and a key feature of the California water system.

Harris County officials warned residents to evacuate as they released water from overflowing reservoirs to alleviate pressure on two dams, a move that would add to flooding along the Buffalo Bayou waterway that runs through the area.

«The pure volume suggests that the wave is about to overtake the dam.»

Recently, van Dam has had frequent discussions with his broker about compliance and next year's rates.

Norbert Morgenstern, a geotechnical engineering professor that presented the results, said liquefaction occurred because sand in the tailings dam was «loose, uncompacted and saturated.»

«All indications are that costs will increase,» says van Dam.

Like many employers, van Dam has seen annual double - digit increases in health insurance premiums over most of the past decade.

Fixated thoughts, past experiences (whether successes or failures) and rigid ideas act as boulders in this river, damming it up.

Brad van Dam, the CEO of Marich, a candymaker based in Hollister, California, already pays about $ 800,000 a year to cover his 130 employees.

More than 28,000 have disappeared due to climate change, industrialization and hydroelectric dams.

The 1,172 - mile (1,885 - km) pipeline project, owned by Texas - based Energy Transfer Partners LP, is mostly complete, except for a segment planned to run under Lake Oahe, a reservoir formed by a dam on the Missouri River.

It is also used to make Aqua Dams, which are patented large plastic tubes that provide an environmentally sound means of preventing floods.

A subsidiary of Wesfarmers, liquefied natural gas supplier EVOL LNG, has won a deal with Saracen Mineral Holdings to supply 7,000 tonnes of the resource per year to its Carosue Dam operations north of Kalgoorlie for an undisclosed amount.

Subiaco - based SRG has won a $ 6.3 million contract to provide construction work on an irrigation dam in Queensland.

Local waste management company Tox Free Solutions has won a new contract for work at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, along with an extension for ongoing work at Chevron's Western Australian assets, for an undisclosed sum.

So they'll plunk down a data centre next to a hydro dam in the middle of nowhere.»

«There was no way to dam up the over-spilling monstrous flood of life,» wrote London.

Local contractor SRG has picked up another contract for work on a dam in Queensland which is owned and operated by SunWater.

In a Facebook post Tuesday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted that «the dam is about to break on Benghazi,» and that Clinton could be a political casualty.

The original Mifid arrived in November 2007, just as the dam of the financial crisis was about to break wide open.

Iranian hackers infiltrated the computer system at a small dam in a quiet village 20 miles from New York City in 2013, according to a report on Monday.

In a 2017 report, the lobbying group also scored U.S. dams, levees and drinking water facilities as in worse condition than bridges.

After gaining access, hackers can turn off power, prevent systems from shutting down, overheat computers and servers, and interfere with a dam's operations.

And along the way, those hackers may create more havoc than a simple dam breach may suggest.