Sentences with phrase «of dam projects»

To meet this need, the government approved hundreds of dam projects around the country, privatizing rivers, land, and uprooting communities.»

«The arts organization I was working with, and where the piece was exhibited, asked me not to use any text, because it would inevitably have contained aspects of criticism of the dam project,» she told TreeHugger.

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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.

Horgan has already backed several other projects — the Site C dam and an LNG terminal — that environmentalists oppose, and his government would fall without the votes of three Green MLAs, so he likely can't back down.

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

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Once the political reality of British Columbia is determined, next steps on energy projects like Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the Site C dam will follow.

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.

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

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.

Jan. 7, 2015: Special Meeting to approve the inter-governmental agreement between the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Village of North Aurora and the Fox Valley Park District for the North Aurora Dam Removal Project / 3:30 p.m. / Cole Center / 101 W. Illinois Ave., Aurora

These projects target habitats of priority species of conservation concern, and include dam removals, invasive species management, wetland restoration, and more.

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.

However, 70 % of the $ 1million for each of the constituencies will be spent on government's priority projects, such as the «One district - one factory, one village one dam, warehouses for planting for food and jobs, among others.

The project which is estimated to cost $ 100 billion, and if completed would be the world's largest hydroelectric plant is more than twice the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China.

The Nyabarongo case thus demonstrates a level of local benefit not normally associated with large dam projects.

Some of the infrastructural projects include the Tema Harbour, the Akosombo Hydro - Electric Dam, the Tema township, the Tema Oil Refinery and the Tema Flour Mill.

This article explores aspects of Rwanda's flagship dam project that indicate the government's wider approach to development politics.

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.

He used Sudan's recent dam projects as one of the examples of this «responsible governance.»

During the 1st Republic, they opposed the construction of the Akosombo Hydro - Dam and the establishment of the Volta River Project; the constructions of the Tema Township and Harbour; the constructions of the Okomfo Anokye Hospital, the Motorway and the Job 600 (State House Complex).

The episode is not unique; just over a week ago, on October 29th, 218 workers shut down two construction sites of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam Project in eastern Cameroon.

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.

On the construction of the Tamne dam, President Mahama said, construction of the project stalled during the rainy season to allow the area to dry up for continuation.

He said the number is part of the total of 320 small dams and dug - outs planned to be constructed in 64 districts in northern Ghana as part of the government's One - District - One - Dam project.

Milwaukee County officials say they still have unanswered questions concerning plans to demolish and remove Estabrook Dam and are calling for the state to require an environmental review of the project.

The Tamne Irrigation dam project has been on the wish list of the people of Bawku and surrounding towns since the 1970's.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

The president, Nana Akufo - Addo who gave the keynote address at the 33rd Farmers» Day celebration in Kumasi on December 1, 2017 said that in line with the government's target of promoting all - year - round cropping, 320 small dams and dugout in 64 districts in the Northern Region have been earmarked to be developed under the One - Village - One - Dam project.

The hostel was among a number of projects the president commissioned and inspected during a two - day tour that also saw him cut the sod for work to begin on the Bolgatanga - Bawku - Pulmakom Road and the Tamne Irrigation Dam in the Garu - Tempane District among others.

Lawmakers cut Astorino's plans for an enhanced Kensico Dam from the budget; an extensive project to revamp the area was announced by the county executive back in October and would have poured upwards of $ 17 million into a revamped reflecting pool and skating rink.

The accelerated state funding will leverage $ 10 billion in direct capital investment to create thousands of direct jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges; parks, dams and flood control projects; upgrading water systems and educational facilities; and investing in energy efficient improvements to commercial and residential buildings.

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).

«We understand that the capacity for the TDI project already exists and so we don't think this will lead to the creation of additional dams,» he said.

As part of that funding stream, Wilmington has also been tapped to receive $ 400,000 for Lake Everest Dam Improvements and other natural stream restoration and culvert projects.

The $ 138 million dam reconstruction — believed to be the largest public works project in the Catskills — was completed two years ahead of schedule.

In addition, the Budget includes $ 102 million for the Department of Environmental Conservation to advance flood control, coastal erosion and critical dam safety projects.

INDIAN LAKE — In an executive session following the February Indian Lake Town Board Meeting, the Abanakee Dam Project was given the nod to move forward at the end of the 2016 whitewater rafting season.

Given both the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and the state Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) refusing to allow a water draw down, the project now includes the building of a coffer dam, thus the increase from the $ 970,000 original forecast.

------------------------------------ Congressman Chris Gibson announced the House adopted a bill to extend the deadline for the start of construction of the hydroelectric project at the Cannonsville Dam.

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A lecturer at the University of Ghana has called on the government to implement its flagship «one village, one dam» project to enable farmers to ensure year - long supply of water to their farms, even in the dry season, thereby increasing their yield.

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.

Now, to foster a less confrontational way of advancing projects, the hydropower industry, environmental and human - rights organizations, and representatives from banks and governments have negotiated a mechanism for evaluating, and perhaps mitigating, the impact of dams before they are built.

The council began investigating the beaver option after learning that the state was considering artificial dam projects that might cost billions of dollars.

Estimating that most large - scale projects need something on the order of Can $ 1 billion to become economically viable, Ball says that the Boundary Dam project wouldn't be able to go forward without a steady stream of revenue from the sale of CO2.

«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.

The range of possible actions to hurricanes is limited to evacuation, large - scale engineering projects such as floodgates and dams, loss prevention (insurance), and the self - organization of society in recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of a hurricane disaster.

Not to be outdone, the modern Chinese government has undertaken a massive project to control the flow of this ancient waterway, erecting Three Gorges, the world's largest dam, to block it.