Sentences with phrase «over dam projects»
Central Government Be Damned But the central government, which is said to be investigating the incident in Sichuan, has also expressed concerns over dam projects like these before.
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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 60 years, a myriad of dams have been built either to provide hydroelectric power, or for irrigation purposes, or as flood protection,» says Bernhard Lehner, a professor in McGill University's Department of Geography and the research director of the project.
Major infrastructure projects — highways, dams, levies, electrical transmission lines, trains and subways — represent investments meant to pay off over generations.
Todd has traveled to the Amazon a dozen times over the course of seven years to document the conflicts surrounding the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, and in early March 2016 he returned to the region as the dam's construction neared completion.
China's Three Gorges Dam — arguably the single-most environmentally and economically destructive project ever undertaken — was in the end completed, after a battle we fought alongside our colleagues in China over the course of 20 years.
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.»
The struggle over dams in China's west has been brewing for years, fed by the kind of concerns that typically dog hydroelectric projects — land grabs, relocations, corruption, environmental damage — along with the less typical political and spiritual tensions surrounding Tibet.
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.
Notable mandates: Successfully fended off a class action certification motion against Canadian National Railway over alleged overcharging for grain carriage; acted for Federated Co-operatives Ltd. in its $ 138 - million acquisition of oil company Triwest Exploration Inc.; Saskatchewan counsel to Wal - Mart Canada Realty Inc. and SmartCentres Realty Inc. on the $ 200 - million sale of shopping centres to Great - West Life Assurance Co. and London Life Insurance Co.; represented Northern Property REIT in $ 70 - million purchase of Nunavut properties; advised Saskatchewan Power Corp. on its $ 1.24 - billion Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Project.