In October, International Rivers paid a visit to
several dam sites and affected villages on the Lancang (Upper Mekong) River in Yunnan, China.
Not exact matches
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.
Water for mineral processing is sourced from rainfall and stored in
several process water
dams and mining voids located on the
site.
At the Belo Monte
site,
several demonstrations culminated in a group of protesters digging a trench through the an earthen
dam that blocks a portion of the Xingu River.
Several other counties in the EU, do however have very large hydro capacities (there is 30GW in Norway alone) and some of these reservoirs are now being converted to pumped storage; e.g. Germany's Thuringia State has identified 13 potential
sites, including 3 existing
dams, for constructing pumped - storage plants that would total 5,130 MW.