Sentences with phrase «of big dams»

Audience member: We know that the 20th century was the era of big dams, big infrastructure projects.

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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.

Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.

Hydro Quebec built that huge dam on the LaGrande, but so far its plans for even bigger dams have been stalled; across North America, people concerned about the rights of the Cree Indians, about the caribou, about the sheer existence of a vast wilderness, have scrapped and battled to rein in the project.

Up to 25 % expected death rate in any given litter, macrosomic pups that block the canal and kill all the pups to follow, pups that are «too big to birth» so the bitch is euthanized because the owner can't afford a C - section, horrific rectal tears, sectioning dead calves just to get them out and save the dam, uterine atony, hypocalemia... the list of ways that «birth» can kill a dog or a cat goes on and on.

It is arguably the first singularly big development project to be completed by president Kagame's government, and is set to be the first of many with a further four Large Dams in the immediate pipeline and the Bugasera Airport under construction.

Now Wendy's brother is of course is Douglas Alexander, right hand man of Gordun, who got close to the big man way back in 1990 trundling around the UK behind him and being generally helpful, writing speeches that dammed markets, Thatcher and attacking privitisation program's.

The communities of the Town and Village of Horseheads, Big Flats, Elmira, Veteran, Breesport, Pine Valley, Erin, Millport, Lowman, Beaver Dams, Cayuta, Catlin, and portions of adjacent communities make up the district.

Faisal Hossain of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and colleagues looked at the magnitude of the biggest storms near 633 of the world's largest dams before and after construction.

«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.

North of Sacramento, more than 188,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes as the Oroville Dam overflowed, eroding a giant crater into its spillway and threatening to release one of the state's biggest reservoirs.

The dam is the biggest in the world and can generate 18 gigawatts of power.

Its biggest tributaries — the Salt and the Verde — are often stopped dead at a dam east of Phoenix, if they don't run dry before they get there.

«Four famous domestic fishes» — the grass, silver, black and big carps — provide protein and a livelihood to more than 10 million Chinese, yet they are dwindling in the stretch of river beneath the Three Gorges Dam, victims of the dam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research InstituDam, victims of the dam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institudam's development and overfishing, says Daqing Chen of the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute.

Dams and low marine survival rates are two of the biggest threats to many diadromous fishes, which spend part of their life in freshwater and part in the ocean.

Shennongjia, a nature reserve near the dam in Hubei province, is so undisturbed that it is famous for sightings of yeren, or «wild man» — the Chinese equivalent of «Big Foot» — as well as the only slightly more prosaic white monkey.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

Methane emissions from big hydroelectric dams in the tropics outweigh the benefits that this form of renewable energy provides, according to new scientific data

Any of hundreds of dams could be in danger of bursting when the next big one hits.

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy — at a big cost

Flooding is also often a humanitarian disaster when it strikes and can be an aftereffect of big development projects, like hydroelectric dams.

If your dam or borehole is big enough, you can have every last drop — regardless of the impact on locals.

Veterinary pathologist, Dr Cathy Shilton, discovered that many of the toads at the invasion front at Fogg Dam — especially the bigger, older, longer - legged animals — have severe spinal arthritis.

From work by Professor Thomas Madsen and Dr Beata Ujvari at Fogg Dam, as well as Dr Greg Brown's regular counts, we know that most of the big floodplain goannas were killed by trying to eat toads, within a year or so of the toads first arriving.

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.

On this day the Dam Square in Amsterdam in turned into a big field full of fresh tullips were you can pick a bag of them for free!

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Popular holiday spots for families include the majestic Sun City Resort, where everything has been thought of and provided for, the Pilanesburg Nature Reserve, home to the big five and a whole lot of other animals for you to discover, the Magaliesberg Dam and the Motseng Cultural Village which is sure to educate both young and old about the local Batswana Cultural practices and traditions.

My expectation is that, like the low front lip on my SVT Focus, the plastic dam will act as a big snow plow and make it a pain to drive the Volt through more than two or three inches of snow.

The front end gets a single - piece grille, bigger headlights with integrated LED daytime running lights, and a larger air dam accented by a thin strip of chrome trim.

The stock brakes are probably pretty stout, too, but the Callaway package adds another level of decel for longer canyons like this and for hauling your big ski boat down the Davis Dam Grade.

The new Mercedes design language is evident on the flamboyant front fascia, where it gets a huge set of lamps having new E-Class derived detailing, a wider grille panel that comes straight from the S - Class and the AMG styled front bumper with big air dams.

I'm a big fan of the revised front end, with bigger air dams and a somewhat cheeky «Turbo» badge nestled in between the grille slats, but where the Elantra Sport gets real interesting is the rear end.

It does have larger air intakes in the front corners, but they aren't as big as the jag, so the Jag definitely wins that award, but they do sit in harmony with the size of the air dam and the headlights.

The Performance model came with bigger 18 - inch wheels, front air dam, rear spoiler, optional Brembo brakes, and VDC instead of Traction Control.

Expect Ford's next pocket rocket to feature a deep front bumper with a bigger air dam, a wider grille, a pair of vents cut into the hood, model - specific side skirts, and a sizable air diffuser out back.

EXTERIOR The front fascia of the car includes a new and sporty front bumper with bigger air dam, and fog lamps, which are accompanied by silver strips.

Pearce doesn't believe we need more and bigger dams but feels that we need to manage the water cycle better, to return to the ancient ways of «harvesting the water where it falls» but also utilizing high - tech irrigation methods to provide «more crop per drop», and above all, we need to «manage the water cycle for maximum social benefit rather than narrow self - interest».

Its central location on the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert makes it convenient to some of the state's biggest attractions, including historic Route 66, the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon.

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Set up on the hills that overlook the waters of the Gariep Dam, this guest house, despite its modern façade, is big on romance and offers four en - suite bedrooms each with a canopied bed, and one family room.

Although it is only a suburb of Pretoria, Tshwane, it is in close vicinity of many interesting places to visit, such as a Lion park, Cradle of Humankind, Sterkfontein Grottos, Hartebeespoort dam and its huge cultural artefact market, and Bela Bela with the biggest Water Feature Park in South Africa.

All rooms are fully furnished, en - suite bathroom with amenities, fully equipped kitchens, lounge with a TV We are surrounded by many attractions, 2 km away from Kolonnade shopping mall with variety of restaurants, 6 km away from Big Sky Academy and Wedding venues, 10 km away from Pretoria / Tshwane, 25 km away from Cullinan Diamond mine, 45 km away from Lanseria and O.R Tambo airport, 42 km away from Lesedi Cultural Village, Hartbeespoort Dam with Reptiles Park, Glen Afric Game Lodge, Chameleon Craft Market, 55 km away from The Cradle of Humankind, 62 km away from Ukutula Lodge, 65 km away from Johannesburg, Constitutional Hill and Apartheid Museum, 68 km from Soweto and Kliptown.

Having see what some big dams have done to Swedish Lappland, for example, I feel like trading some of those hydropower projects for nuclear energy might have been a net plus for the environment.

If I recall rightly, the flood level was within a metre of the last big flood before the flood - containment Wivenhoe Dam was completed in the 1980s.

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.

That qualification would apply almost exclusively to nuclear reactors with their always - on fuel, dams with big reservoirs and the leeway to control the flow of water, and coal plants with big enough piles of fuel to qualify.

And the right thing simply can not include funding dirty energy and false solutions in any of their forms — fossil fuels and CCS, climate smart agriculture, biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear energy and big dams (and surely a few others as well).

Big hydro is pretty much the same story with the add on that the lake behind the dam covers a lot of ground which requires eminent domain seizures.

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.