Sentences with phrase «planned hydropower dam»

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Nearly 100 hydropower dams are planned for construction along tributaries off the river's 2,700 - mile stretch, which flows through Burma, China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

Such seismically active regions are exactly where hundreds of dams 15 meters or higher are either under construction or being planned, most of them to supply hydropower to India or China.

Now, Bhutan plans to build an array of new dams and quickly ramp up hydropower capacity to 10,000 MW by 2020 — a goal that is becoming increasingly controversial.

«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.

However, in February 2011, Chinese officials revealed plans to resume the Nu River dams as part of China's 12th Five - Year Plan, which aims to add up to 140 GW of new hydropower capacity to meet its renewable energy targets.