Sentences with phrase «many hydro projects»

Further east, new hydro projects promise to attract workers northward, as well.

To get the province to give ground, Ottawa initially tried tying a billion - dollar federal loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls hydro project to a change in the fish - processing rules.

Clark's shakedown effort is reminiscent of the manner in which Quebec, nearly 50 years ago, used its geographic leverage to extort Newfoundland's Churchill Falls hydro project into selling it electricity at an enormous discount.

(Durfy stepped down for personal reasons in 2010 and now serves as president of Northland Power, a developer of natural gas, wind and hydro projects.)

«Christy Clark's government continues to prove their failure to perform on major hydro projects,» said Dix.

«Northeast B.C. and it's wildlife have been hammered by coal mines, hydro projects, decades of clearcut logging and thousands of gas well sites,» said Coste.

Most recently, Aegon committed $ 50 million to Climate Investor One, a climate initiative which finances solar, wind, and run - of - river hydro projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

For instance, «hydro projects are one of the main drivers of deforestation in the Amazon by opening up previously unexplored areas,» she said.

Whereas hydropower used to provide the bulk of Kenya's power ongoing droughts have led investors to pull out of hydro projects; power rationing and epic blackouts are common.

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

Although a climate - resilient approach is factored into the designs of hydro projects, China is still likely to suffer from hydroelectric output decline, says Yang.

«In the future, the importance of hydro projects won't be on power generation, but on water management,» Yang explained.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. (INE / TSX) is much more focused on hydro projects, with nearly all of its operations in Canada.

Are changes in landscapes and ecosystems (deforestation, for example) putting our hydro projects at grater risks?

Dan [ANDY REVKIN comments: These are very important points, as anyone would recognize who's followed windmill fights, the nuclear debate, or Canada's conflicts with native communities over new «clean» hydro projects.

Large hydropower projects added a net 19 GW to the world's generation capacity last year; small hydro projects added just under 3 GW net.

Hydropower's stock is also set to rise thanks to the multiple roles hydro projects can fulfil, particularly in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Kaplan of the Conservation Law Foundation said that large hydro projects should be excluded because they're already a staple of eastern Canada's electricity mix.

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

Large hydro projects are projected to generate 2 billion carbon credits by 2020, which could be a lot of hot air.

The hydro project will emit CO2 in its contstruction (and lots of methane if they flood rainforest to build it).

Those benefits also come from new renewable energy projects, like SolarReserve's solar thermal project at Port Augusta, Neoen's wind plus battery project at Jamestown, Sanjeev Gupta's solar and pumped hydro projects at Whyalla, and numerous other climate - safe projects all over Australia.

A further benefit is that one - third of the power from the hydro project, or about 600 MW, will be used in PNG.

(October 2, 2017) Nalcor's Muskrat Falls hydro project will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple - digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power.

Steindorf has been working with an analyst at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for more than a year to identify Western hydro projects that might soon be on the chopping block due to economic pressures.

New storage projects are in the news all over, including a 10 - MW battery coupled to a Southern California Edison gas turbine; a multi-kilowatt flywheel that will store four hours of power for Hawaiian Electric; and a proposed 393 - MW pumped hydro project in southern Oregon's Klamath basin that faces opposition from local tribes.

I was forced during the 1990's to abandon some 15 small hydro projects in various stages of the permitting process at a loss of $ millions.

This town of over 300 community members has a strong ecosystem based economy, and history of clean energy, having installed their first small, community owned run - of - river hydro project in 1981.

Claiming that hydro projects are net producers of greenhouse gases is not new (New Scientist print edition, 3 June 2000) but the issue now appears to be climbing up the political agenda.

The mini hydro project also creates electricity at affordable prices to power farm machinery and improve communication with the addition of radios and television sets.

In a nation like Australia, with no effective energy policies coming from the federal governments, the long - term planning needed for new pumped hydro projects has been sadly lacking.

The objective of the Paraíso hydro project is to yield the power potential of the Paraíso River to generate electricity.

The regulators have also discovered some hydro projects reported a very low electricity tariff, lower than coal power plants and other hydro projects in the same province.

At a CDM executive board meeting in March, the board suspended TUV SUD from auditing hydro projects, as it had approved dams that were later found to have problems.

Small, micro - and pico - hydro projects have even lower environmental impact and in places without grid access can be a great (if inherently limited) source of electricity.

The Tungu - Kabri micro hydro project in Kenya (pictured at left), by Practical Action is a good example of these sort of projects.

But large hydro projects are not included in the UNEP's definition of «renewable», though small hydro is:

«It would incentivize the [resource] development,» he says, including building mines, developing hydro projects and granting timber licences.

When I was writing a book, in 1990 on the Cree and Inuit resistance to a second major Quebec hydro project, this one to be on the Great Whale River, I was told that their Grand Council then had 11 cases before the Courts.

a run of river hydro project, upholding its water license before the Environmental Appeal Board;

Not exact matches

All projects boast excellent infrastructure and access to some of the lowest cost and cleanest power globally from Quebec hydro power.

The two - year program focuses on technical design, project development, and energy management in renewable energy sources, including solar electric, solar thermal, hydro, wind, geothermal, and cogeneration.

Almost every province will need people overseeing big projects — potash and mining in Saskatchewan, petroleum in Alberta and B.C., and hydro dams in Manitoba and Quebec — with job demand for most of these projects peaking around 2015.

But once the final wind, hydro and biomass projects from the 2008 Clean Power Call are completed, there will be few new prospects for clean power developers, or the accompanying construction jobs.

We need to protect the environment by reducing GHGs, and First Nations and local communities in B.C. need the work that our sector can deliver through clean and renewable energy projects such as wind, solar, hydro and biomass.»

Water Power Group is a community - based developer of small hydro power projects in Ontario that use low - impact, fish - friendly turbines.

In addition, it has an extensive development pipeline of hydro and wind projects, with nearly 7,000 MW in development, including 300 MW of projects either under construction or ready to build.

Sports (Olympic games), music festivals, major religious events (a Pope visits the UN), major technological events (astronauts return from the moon; a hydro electric project is completed, etc.) illustrate the type.

Thus, China has an interest in ensuring that India remains a water - secure country, although China's current major hydro - engineering projects demonstrate that the Chinese government is focused, first and foremost, on addressing China's own serious water scarcity challenges.