Sentences with phrase «say dam projects»

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The utility says the two spillways alone are 17 - storeys high and five highway - lanes wide, making the contract the project's second - largest, just under the $ 1.75 billion contract inked in 2015 with Peace River Hydro Partners for the dam's foundation and other civil works.

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.

The county is currently funding a $ 150,000 project to repair the dam, with work expected to be complete early in 2018, said Poloncarz.

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 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.

«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.

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.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

Mining projects (37 %) and water impounded behind dams (23 %) are the most commonly reported causes of induced earthquakes, but unconventional oil and gas extraction projects using hydraulic fracturing, are now a frequent addition to the database, said Miles Wilson, a geophysicist at Durham University working on the HiQuake research effort.

Canadian environmental group Probe International says that in 2000, Chinese academics pleaded for $ 37 billion for environmental projects relating to the dam's construction.

Vicente Comes, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, which is responsible for the dam project, said that «environmentally - kind alternatives would be studied before a final decision was made.»

«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.

«Any time the river flows through that high and the channel moves or erodes, it will change places on the river,» said Mark Waters, Trinity River Authority project manager at the Lake Livingston Dam.

«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date, with images of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Saskatchewan Power in Canada will start its $ 1.35 billion Boundary Dam coal - fired CCS project this year, capturing a million tonnes annually of carbon dioxide in what it says is the world's first post-combustion coal - fired CCS project.

Carbon capture experts say two important projects will open soon in North America: the Southern Company's Kemper County plant in Mississippi, which will burn coal to make electricity and provide carbon dioxide for oil recovery, and the Boundary Dam coal plant in Saskatchewan, which will do the same.

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.»

Copeland said that he thought Ivanpah was an important milestone in the US energy landscape and in that regard it was similar to the Hoover Dam, another milestone project worked on by Bechtel.

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.

«It's the largest dam removal project in Michigan and the largest wetlands restoration in the Great lakes Basin,» says Pontius.