Sentences with phrase «on dam construction»

So there's an 18 - per - cent contingency on dam construction components like the powerhouse, the dam itself and a 10 - per - cent contingency built in to non-construction components.

Not exact matches

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

It has been just over one year since construction began on the Site C hydroelectric dam and generating station in northeast British Columbia.

Iluka said on Wednesday its senior operational team had since conducted further inspections of the dams, received more information from Sierra Rutile about their construction and enlisted the help of an independent geotechnical consultant, Knight Piesold.

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.

Over the past year, improvements to the 182nd Street dam on the Bronx River have been taking place, in preparation for construction of the -LSB-...]

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.

«I was here sometime in July on the Accounting to the people tour, we cut sod for the construction of the Bolga - Bawku road and the Tamne Dam.

«We must therefore ask pertinent questions on how much the Federal Government allocates for rehabilitation of dams, construction of irrigation facilities and storage facilities to boost agriculture in the southwest.

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).

Janos Vargha «s campaign against to stop construction of a dam on the river Danube brought communist hardliners to their knees — and set the scene for the raising of the Iron Curtain

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

But as countries seek new energy sources to drive economic growth, a surge in dam construction on the eastern flank of the Andes could further threaten fish migration and sediment flows, Elizabeth Anderson, a conservation ecologist at Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues warn today in Science Advances.

Her team documented 142 hydropower dams that are operating or under construction on headwaters in the western Amazon Basin, and another 160 that are under consideration.

Combining data on precipitation, topography, habitat changes, dam construction, and pollution, the researchers created detailed maps of the threats to rivers around the world.

Asia has the highest number of dams proposed or under construction on transboundary basins of any continent with 807, followed by South America, 354; Europe, 148; Africa, 99; and North America, 8.

Senegal's outbreak of schistosomiasis has been blamed on several development projects in the basin of the Senegal River, including the building of two dams and the construction of irrigation schemes.

Brazil's environmental agency, Ibama, issued a license to the consortium Norte Energia SA on Wednesday to begin construction of the dam, which is expected to cost $ 16 billion and would flood 199 square miles of forest.

The dam is slated for construction on the Xingu River in the midst of the Amazon rainforest and upstream from a national park that is home to indigenous groups.

An amendment proposed in Brazil may soon make it impossible to challenge the construction of hydroelectric dams, like this one on the Madeira River.

«The construction of large dams then slowed down for the last 20 years as we became more aware of their negative effects on people and ecosystems.

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under construction on the Blue Nile in northern Ethiopia, near the Sudan border.

(06/29/2005) Following the construction of a dam in Tanzania, the Kihansi Spray Toad sits on the brink of extinction.

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

The Amazon rainforest is seen near construction of the Belo Monte dam complex in the Amazon basin on June 15, 2012, near Altamira, Brazil.

Their epic passage has since been obstructed by poachers that have left sturgeon critically endangered in the wild, along with the construction of the pair of hydroelectric dams at the Iron Gates, the scenic 83 - mile long stretch of the Danube separating Serbia on one side with Romania on the opposite bank.

In 1936, Still visited the construction site of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River northwest of Pullman and while there he created at least 10 photographs, a few sketches and two paintings.

In the late - «60s, shortly before he died, I remember my father's excitement at finding and buying three gelatin silver prints from Margaret Bourke - White's series of images on the construction of Fort Peck Dam, near Billings, Montana.

He held his first exhibition in Stockholm in 1950, where he worked briefly as a design engineer, followed by his first exhibition in Pakistan three years later in Warsak, near Peshawar, where Gulgee was involved in a dam construction project on the Kabul River.

We should similarly file statements indicating the impact of real estate development; the construction of buildings, dams, and levees; and other major projects — on the increased vulnerability to hazards they will impose on others.

Environmentalists believe construction of the dam on the river Chichkhan, on top of the waterfall, would «imperil [Trchkan's] very existence,» according to ArmeniaNow.

Construction of a planned dam on the Kura (Mtkvari) River in the Turkish province of Ardahan would redirect much of the river's water from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, leading to «an ecological and economic catastrophe» in Georgia, officials from the Georgian Green Party are cited as claiming in a recent article by the Georgian publication Democracy & Freedom Watch.

The company needs to agree to remove its four dams [JC Boyle, Copco 2, Copco 1 and Iron Gate (shown above, and the iron gate dam area, pre - construction, which is shown below)-RSB- on the Klamath River.

• Myint Zaw, Myanmar, who launched a national movement to stop construction of the Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River.

«There is a tsunami of hydropower dam constructions happening here and nobody really knows about it,» said Britton Caillouette, director of «Blue Heart», a documentary that focuses on efforts to halt the hydropower plans.

On March 8th, news broke that Dalton Avancini, president of construction empire Camargo Correa, would confirm that his company paid R$ 100 million (US$ 30 million) in bribes to two political parties — President Dilma Rousseff's Workers» Party (PT) and it's main ally in the ruling coalition, PMDB — in exchange for construction contracts for the Belo Monte Dam.

The marvelous California Spillway Risk Analysis was completely undermined by inadequate construction of both the main and emergency spillways, lack of aeration retrofit (though implemented on other dams), lack of maintenance, and fragile power line design.

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 of 2016.

The battle to save the Franklin continued, the case going to the High Court of Australia, which stopped construction on the dam in 1983.

Facing heavy government scrutiny and restricted use of tools like email or social media, 2015 Goldman Prize winner Myint Zaw launched a national movement that successfully stopped construction of the Myitsone Dam on Myanmar's treasured Irrawaddy River.

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

We mapped distribution of 292 dams (under construction and proposed) and projected effects of these dams on terrestrial ecosystems under different scenarios of land - cover loss.

Despite a lack of foreign investors, the Chinese government began construction on the dam in 1994 and completed it almost a decade later.

«There is a wealth of experts in their fields producing evidence, year after year, on the extreme negative consequences of dam construction; I am yet to see any robust evidence that the benefits of dams can outweigh these consequences,» she concluded.

In Rio Blanco on February 20, 2016, Berta Cáceres, COPINH, and the community of Rio Blanco faced threats and repression as they carried out a peaceful action to protect the River Gualcarque against the construction of a hydroelectric dam by the internationally - financed Honduran company DESA.

Brazil's proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over.

Since run of river projects don't use reservoirs on the scale of the large dams, you've really only got the embedded emissions from construction to pay back before you're producing clean power.

Turkey's «Prince of Pop» has been breaking hearts and turning out hits for well over a decade, and last fall he capitalized on his stardom by releasing a single to benefit a campaign to stop construction of the Ilısu Dam.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

After decades of protests against what would be the world's third largest hydroelectric facility, Brazilian officials finally approved construction on the controversial dam at Belo Monte just one month ago — but hope is