Google will pay the Oklahoma utility, Grand River Dam Authority, a premium for the electricity generated by the Canadian Hills Wind Project when it comes online this year.
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Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.
The framework on which this is all hung is a historical look at the expansion of surfing from its roots in Hawaii, and exactly how and why it spread to certain sometimes bizarre places, always eliciting passion along the way, like river surfing from dam generated waves in Germany to Cuba, Japan and the Middle East.
Yet unless the remitters became embroiled in a serious crime, often involving drug money, Western lawmakers largely ignored them, focusing instead on trying to dam the river of dirty money that flowed through traditional banking channels--chiefly through the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, and later its amendments, which required banks to file reports of suspicious activity and high-dollar transactions, and to maintain information about account holders' identities.
Dolphin will get just three reserves: Songimvelo, Loskop Dam and Blyde River Canyon.
Simply throwing a new dam onto a river with a diversion would impair some down stream users prior right to use that water.
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In the past week the president (and former general), Thein Sein, has announced that construction of the Myitsone dam across the River Irrawaddy would cease.
Residents downstream from a dam on the Tangipahoa River have been ordered to evacuate Thursday afternoon.
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Reports said the dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north was still operational.
Together with the Brazilian government, he oversaw the building of the Itaipu dam on the Parana River.
One such success story in the report is the removal of Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine.
Similarly, the elimination of Sandstone Dam on the Kettle River in Minnesota opened 30 miles for fish migration and revived recreation in the area.
MW. The Bonneville hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River, near the site of the Oregon windmills, produces a fifth of that all by itself.
Tamil Nadu is involved in a spat with Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam on the Periyar river and says some scenes in the film depict related "issues".
Tamil Nadu was involved in a spat with Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam on the Periyar river and said some scenes in the film, Dam999, depicted related "issues".
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On his release he began to campaign for a big dam on the Iato river, which roared down in the winter rains and dried up in the nine arid months.
In 1999, the ASF led the effort to tear down the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine, which freed up 17 miles of river that had been submerged.
The Marines at Combat Outpost Pennsylvania, in the contentious Helmand Province, are charged with rooting out insurgents along the highway that shadows the Helmand River up to the vital Kajaki Dam.
As many as 1, 500 residents of the northern Illinois city of Marseilles were evacuated after seven barges broke free from a towing vessel and struck a dam on the Illinois River.
Moreover, the state-run National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology website does not provide any specific details on levels of precipitation in the Caroni river basin, where the Guri dam is located.
The World Bank claims to have learned the lessons of equally worthy-sounding schemes that went badly awry, including a dam on the Mun river in neighbouring Thailand, which left many fishermen destitute as their catch disappeared.
Chandler said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had adjusted a nearby dam to drop the river's water level by 2 feet and was regulating the current to make it easier on the divers, whom Chandler directs.
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In eDNA testing of samples taken in 2011, a year earlier, researchers recorded a positive eDNA test of silver carp above the Coon Rapids dam on the Mississippi River, raising alarm that the fish were heading upstream faster than anticipated.
The inundation in the Far North Region has affected more than 26, 000, officials said Thursday, and in neighboring Nigeria at least 15 deaths are blamed on waters rushing into the country from Cameroon's compromised Lagdo Dam on the Benoue River.
"We all admire the beaver for the way it can turn a linear river into a lake with a dam, but the termites turning the desert into a pattern of oases that allow permanent life even in drought periods for hundreds of years - that's much more fascinating, " he told BBC News.
Voters in Tokushima, on the island of Shikoku, are fighting construction-ministry bureaucrats over a new dam for the nearby Yoshino river.
India's dam will divert some of the river down a 22km (14-mile) mountain tunnel to turbines.
They also say that the dam threatens the wetlands at the river's mouth, which are home to migratory birds and the rare shiomaneki crab.
The construction of the Gezhouba dam in 1981 on the Yangtze river also created a barrier to the migrating fish which further affected fish stocks.
Authorities also said that no damage was observed at the massive Three Gorges Dam, located on the Yangtze River, several hundred kilometres east of the epicentre.
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