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Environmental group leader debates dams
Kennewick :: WA :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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Getting rid of the Snake River dams could ignite regional interest in diversifying energy development and support for spending billions of dollars to upgrade highways and railroad systems for more efficient transportation of wheat overseas, the conservation...
Tags: Michael Garrity, Columbia Basin Badger Club, Snake River, American Rivers, environmental group, Kennewick, Environment, Dam, Salmon, Dam removal, Idaho, Dams, Demolition, Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States
International: The Three Gorges Dam in China is beneficial but also disasterous
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 12 hours ago
Credibility The Three Gorges Dam in China is beneficial but also disasterous if you don't know about it, the Three Gorges Dam is a dam built across the Yangzi River in China. It's going to produce so much hydro-electric power that it is equal to 18 power plants.
Tags: China, gorges dam, Los Angeles, Environment, Dam, Hydroelectricity, Three Gorges, Yangtze River, Three Gorges Dam
Richard Todd, Dashing Actor, Dies at 90
Dublin :: Ireland | 2 days ago
Credibility Mr. Todd, who died in his sleep, had been ill with cancer for some time, his spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse. Dark-haired and Irish-born, Mr. Todd simultaneously embodied the dashing romantic hero and the straight-backed British military man. He...
Tags: Richard Todd, Mr. Todd, dam busters, todd died, actor richard, Guy Gibson, Hasty Heart, died aged, best known, war film, Ireland, Dublin, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, The Dam Busters, Todd, The Longest Day, British films, Robin, Stage Fright, Peter Marshall, Pegasus Bridge, Alfred Hitchcock, The Hasty Heart, Dam, Jane Wyman, Little Humby, Bouncing bomb, Jean Seberg, Sean Connery, John Howard
725 watercourses to be built in Punjab: minister
Lahore :: Pakistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Senior provincial Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad said here on Friday that the Phase-I of the Command Area Development Project had been started. Talking to a delegation of cultivators of the area, the minister said 725 watercourses would be built in the first...
Tags: Pakistan, Lahore, Environment, Dam, Rajput clans, Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Rajputs, Chakwal, Names
Are Large Dams Altering Extreme Weather Patterns?
Cookeville :: TN :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Kucher Recent studies and computer models suggest that dams, like the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona (pictured) can boost rainfall Large dams may cause shifting regional weather extremes, causing scientists to wonder if aging dams around the world can withstand...
Tags: large dams, Faisal Hossain, extremes weather, Cookeville, Environment, Dam, Climate change, Climate, Global warming, Disaster Accident
Traveston Dam gets final 'No'
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
Credibility We're working hard to respond to these and other threats, and sometimes this requires tough decisions to be made. "In this context, I want to make clear that in making my final decision on this matter I had regard to the overriding objects of the Environment...
Tags: traveston dams, Traveston Dam, dams proposed, threatened species, Mr Garrett, final decisions, Queensland Coordinator-General, Mary River, gets final, dams gets, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Dam, Traveston Crossing Dam, Precautionary principle
Husty Dam could generate power
Hustisford :: WI :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Members of the Hustisford Dam advisory committee met recently with representatives of Uriel Wind, of Mequon, to conduct an initial evaluation of the potential of the Hustisford Dam to generate hydroelectric power. “As part of the advisory committee’s...
Tags: hydroelectric power, renewable energy, Uriel Wind, Wisconsin, Hustisford, Environment, Dam, Sustainable energy, Hydroelectricity, Landscape, Business Finance, Electricity generation, Energy development, Hydropower
Sewage lake dam safe
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 6 days ago
Credibility Fears that the massive earth dam holding the sewage lake (Musk lake) in the hills east of Jeddah might burst and flood the city appear somewhat exaggerated. An Arab News team went to investigate the dam on Tuesday and it appeared there was little to worry...
Tags: Musk Lake, sewage lake, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Geography of Saudi Arabia, Red Sea, Makkah Province, Disaster Accident, Environment, Dam, Weather
‘Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure’
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 6 days ago
Credibility Researchers at Melbourne University are investigating whether a DNA repair enzyme found in the jumping marsupials could provide a model for preventing DNA damage linked to many skin cancers in humans. "Other research teams have proposed a ‘dream cream’...
Tags: dna repair, opens gay, Dali Prefecture, China, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Social Issues, Dam, Virology, Islamabad, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, AIDS, Immunodeficiency, HIV/AIDS, Sylhet Division, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Yunnan, Pandemics, HIV/AIDS in Australia, Tipaimukh
Security answers still elusive for Dillon Dam
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Colorado — More than a year after Dillon Dam Road was closed due to unspecified terror threats and the ensuing public outcry, restrictions remain intact as local governments work with the Denver Water Board toward a long-term solution. Concrete answers...
Tags: Dillon Dam Road, task force, Lake Dillon Dam, Denver Water Board, Mason Whitney, Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue, CO Colorado DILLON, Stacy Chesney, vulnerabilities assessment, critical infrastructure, Seattle, Lake Dillon, Dam, Silverthorne Colorado, Summit County Colorado, Dan Gibbs, Denver, Christine Scanlan, Dillon Colorado
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