Sentences with phrase «new dam project»

«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Matthews saw this take place in Nepal, where low water levels rendered a brand - new dam project ineffective and cut off the water supply farther downstream.

Ms. Aguirre works as part of International Rivers» Latin America program to support local movements for the protection of rivers; to identify new dam projects in Latin America and to examine their...

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In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

Huge new projects like the Aswan Dam in Egypt have upset water balances in the soils and created new problems of salinity where none existed before.

His advice to remove stressors on the land, such as dams, ditches, berms, and sand (where you can), and dig a new 3.5 - mile stream channel to let the water flow naturally across the watershed became the cornerstone of the project.

Appropriates $ 40M to address a variety of capital needs including: the creation of new public access projects to connect hunters, anglers, bird watchers, and other outdoor enthusiasts to untapped State - owned lands; providing for air monitoring infrastructure and information technology investments; and health and safety repairs for dams, State lands, fish hatcheries, and other State infrastructure.

Wilson resident Marek Kobialka, a construction engineer with the Niagara Power Project, recently received, on behalf of the New York Power Authority (NYPA), an award from the Western New York Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI - WNY) for superior work practices related to the repair and restoration of the dam face of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant (featured in the background).

Hydropower projects involving new dams are also not eligible for certain renewable subsitide.

But freshwater fish are beginning to return, thanks to an $ 86 million project financed by the World Bank that saw construction of a new dam and dykes.

The Yangtze's newest dams include several smaller projects that are necessary to alleviate sedimentation caused by the Three Gorges reservoir.

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.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

The byproduct of more universal schooling — or perhaps its main product — was the American teenager, «a New Deal project» much like the Hoover Dam, wrote cultural critic Thomas Hine.

«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date, with images of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Upcoming: Co-curator with Cris Dam of Dam Stuhltrager of Williamsburg on Warren exhibition this May at One Art Space in New York City and project managing for CYLAND's On My Way, parallel with the 54th Venice Biennale this Spring at Ca» Foscari University in Venice.

SOL LEWITT R647: Map of Amsterdam with the area between the Dam, Art and Project, Utrechtse - Brug, Zeeburgerstraat and Achtergracht removed 1976 Paper map with area removed 25 3/4 x 32 inches (65.5 x 81.3 cm) © The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Her work has been shown in New York at Flipside, Smack Mellon Studios, Pierogi, The Rotunda Gallery, The Sculpture Center, PS 1 / MOMA, ES Van Dam, and the Lesley Heller Workspace; In the Bay Area at Don Soker Gallery, Limn Gallery, the Richard L. Nelson Gallery, the Crocker Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Jay Jay Gallery, The San Francisco Center for the Book, SOMARTS, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; in LA, at the Brewery Project and Another year in LA; In Houston at Project Row Houses and Fotofest.

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 post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

Washington, DC 6 December 2017 A new report by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace estimates that in 2016, as a result of a new class of policy tools, almost $ 5 billion was spent on efforts to offset the impacts that new highways, dams, mines, and other infrastructure and development projects have on nearby species -LSB-...]

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

It is interesting to note that in California Gov. Jerry «Moonbeam» Brown pushed legislative reform of the state's environmental law (CEQA) to fast track and streamline concentrated solar farm installations without regard for loss of bird life and the habitat the birds live on (e.g. insects); and more recently has fast tracked the installation of expensive batteries on its electric grid in record time without the usual delays for environmental clearances (see: «A Big Test for Big Batteries», New York Times, Jan. 14, 2017) but apparently did not even have on a back burner a project to fix the open and notorious Oroville Dam spillway defects and deficiencies.

Yet almost all new dams being built in China are being registered as CDM projects.

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

While conventional hydropower will continue to grow as dams are completed in China, Brazil and a scattering of other countries, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Turkey, there exists enormous potential for non-conventional hydroelectricity generation from tidal and wave projects, as well as from small in - stream projects that will not require new dams.

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 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.

Dave Steindorf, special projects director at American Whitewater, a river advocacy nonprofit, believes conditions in the energy market have created a new incentive to remove some hydroelectric dams.

The article «A decade on, controversy still surrounds China's Three Gorges Dam» in the journal Probe International says, «Despite the problems, the Three Gorges will be joined by a wave of new hydropower projects over the next decade — mostly spread across China's mountainous and earthquake prone southwest.»

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Meanwhile Brazilian companies continued to invest in projects that would drive large - scale deforestation in other Amazon countries, including dams, energy exploration, industrial agricultural developments, and new roads, suggesting that even though deforestation has been ebbing in recent years, there may be leakage to surrounding countries.

The dam is in the middle of a decades - long project to replace all of its turbines (which date back to 1963 - 64) with new, more efficient turbines one at a time.

While many environmentalists are cheering the removal of dams as a way to bring health back to rivers and restore fisheries, a new project slated for Alaska could put one of the nation's tallest dams in place in the

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My bet is that in 20 years, British Columbians will be very happy that Site C was built, in the same way most of us are very happy previous B.C. governments built the B.C. Ferry system, the WAC Bennett dam, Expo 86, the Coquihalla and other B.C. highways, the 2010 Winter Olympics, the new Port Mann Bridge, the Golden Ears Bridge and other controversial (and expensive) projects.

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.