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Dam Hydropower a major greenhouse-gas producer, researchers say		25 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Dam Hydropower a major greenhouse-gas producer, researchers say Although hydroelectric power is often heralded as a green alternative to fossil fuels like coal, scientists now say that in terms of greenhouse-gas production, hydro projects may be just as damning. Ahem. New research reveals that the initial flooding involved in creating hydroelectric dams releases large amounts of carbon from plants that are kille ...
Topics: climate, dams, energy, hydropower, news (all these topics)

Less Salmon, More Dammin' Northwest salmon to lose critical habitat; Bush admin to keep dams		01 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Less Salmon, More Dammin' Northwest salmon to lose critical habitat; Bush admin to keep dams A double dose of salmon news today: The Bush administration yesterday announced its intention to cut by more than 80 percent the miles of rivers and streams designated as critical habitat for threatened and endangered Northwest runs of salmon and steelhead. The plan, which is subject to a 60-day public comment period, was dr ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, United States (all these topics)

Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Stream Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Stream Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment An extraordinary experiment got underway this past weekend, as four large valves at the base of Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona were cranked open to release up to 41,000 cubic feet of water a second. Scientists hope that the water will push sand, silt, and sediment downstream to rebuild beaches and sandbars along ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Kvetch Hetchy Schwarzenegger admin will consider undamming Hetch Hetchy		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Kvetch Hetchy Schwarzenegger admin will consider undamming Hetch Hetchy To the surprise of, well, just about everybody, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) resources secretary announced yesterday that he will pull together a thorough assessment of a project once considered entirely fanciful: tearing down O'Shaughnessy Dam and restoring Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetc ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, dams, energy, national parks, politics (all these topics)

The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back		05 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Powell and the Glory Lake Powell is drying up; Glen Canyon is coming back Lake Powell is dropping by a foot every four days, thanks to ongoing drought in the West -- and many enviros couldn't be happier about it. Veteran conservation leader David Brower called the completion of Glen Canyon dam in 1963, and the subsequent drowning of the canyon and its many side canyons to create Lake Powell, the greatest disappoin ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, lakes, Utah (all these topics)

The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Dam Bush administration tweaks dam regulations to favor industry		28 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Dam Bush administration tweaks dam regulations to favor industry The Bush administration has just proposed a regulatory change that would grant the hydropower industry exclusive rights to appeal Interior Department rulings on dam licensing and operation -- and deny those rights to states, Indian tribes, and environmental groups. Many privately owned dams, bui ...
Topics: dams, Department of Interior, energy, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

I Hope You Like Dammin', Too Bush Administration Won't Remove Northwest Dams to Save Salmon		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
I Hope You Like Dammin', Too Bush Administration Won't Remove Northwest Dams to Save Salmon The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will not remove dams from the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest as part of its efforts to save endangered salmon runs. According to Bob Lohn of the National Marine Fisheries Service, "Our work shows that you can achieve recovery w ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest (all these topics)

A Dam Shame A paddler travels one of India's great rivers before a dam changes it for good	Dan Oko	08 Jun 2004	Main Dish
Except for the occasional palm or banana tree, the Himalayan canyon walls look like those carved by the Salmon River in Idaho: The hillsides are brown and dotted with pine groves, and the boulder-strewn banks of the river give way to stretches of white sand. But this is the Bhagirathi River, half a world away from the Rocky Mountains, and I am on what is billed as the last expedition ...
Topics: dams, energy, India (all these topics)

School of Continuing Fish Education	Suzy Becker	16 Mar 2004	Ha.

Topics: dams, energy, fishing (all these topics)

Out With the Old Growth, in With the Nu Nu River Dam Threatens Unique Chinese Ecosystem		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Out With the Old Growth, in With the Nu Nu River Dam Threatens Unique Chinese Ecosystem A massive dam project planned for the Nu River in southwestern China threatens to wreak havoc on a region that contains one of the world's least-disturbed temperate ecosystems. The area, designated by the U.N. as a World Heritage Site, contains old-growth forests, 7,000 species of plants, and 80 rare or endangered animal species -- all to ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Big Duddy Missouri River management plan to be election-year hot potato	Amanda Griscom	03 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Basically, the Army Corps has flipped us the bird -- at a time when it's supposed to be saving the birds." Hello, Big Muddy. Photo: FWS. That's how Eric Eckl, spokesperson for American Rivers, sums up the Army Corps of Engineers' new plan to manage the Missouri River, released on Friday to blistering protest and threats of a new round of lawsuits from the environmental community. The p ...
Topics: American Rivers, Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri, Missouri River, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend The Army Corps of Engineers blew up the Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Va., yesterday, allowing the Rappahannock River to flow unmolested from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay for the first time since 1910 -- and making it the longest free-flowing river feeding into the Chesapeake, ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, California, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

Sweet Chile O' Mine Greenpeace Activist in Chile Tells It Like She Sees It		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, dams, education, energy, Greenpeace, hydropower, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, South America, wilderness (all these topics)

It Doesn't Look a Day Over 29 Taking Stock of the Endangered Species Act at Age 30		10 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
It Doesn't Look a Day Over 29 Taking Stock of the Endangered Species Act at Age 30 Who knew the Endangered Species Act was a Sagittarius? That's right, this month the act will turn 30. Signed into law by President Nixon in 1973, the ESA aimed to prevent extinctions, bring imperiled species back to viable population levels, and protect the natural habitat needed to sustain wildlife. Five years later, the law ga ...
Topics: dams, energy, politics, Tennessee, wildlife (all these topics)

One Dam Thing After Another Anti-Dam Activists Get Energized in Thailand		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Thailand, wildlife (all these topics)

Hubris on the Yangtze	Worldwatch Institute	24 Nov 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: Friends of the Earth International. 555 -- height, in feet, of the Washington Monument, the tallest structure in Washington, D.C. 575 -- height, in feet, of the new Three Gorges Dam in China (which is also wider than 100 Washington Monuments standing edge to edge) 4.3 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Panama Canal 26.4 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Three Gorges Dam 80 -- number of cr ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Anemone Mine Fluorescent Fish Will Become First Genetically Engineered Pet in U.S.		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Anemone Mine Fluorescent Fish Will Become First Genetically Engineered Pet in U.S. If genetically engineered food ruffles your feathers, get a load of this: The nation's first genetically altered pet, a glow-in-the-dark tropical zebra fish, made its public debut on Friday. Developed by a Texas company and intended to be sold for about $5 a pop in pet stores, the patented GloFish owe their red fluorescence to a gene transferred from a sea anemo ...
Topics: dams, energy (all these topics)

No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros It's been a roller coaster year for environmentalists in Brazil. Last October, with the election to the presidency of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula, for short), they were elated, because he was seen as one of their own. Now, though, enviros say they have been betrayed on virtually ev ...
Topics: Brazil, dams, energy, GMOs, international government agencies, nuclear power, rainforests (all these topics)

Fishing for Answers Bush Administration Admits Role in Klamath Fish Die-Off		19 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Fishing for Answers Bush Administration Admits Role in Klamath Fish Die-Off The Bush administration has finally admitted to its role in last year's die-off of more than 34,000 chinook and coho salmon in the Klamath River basin, which straddles the Oregon-California border: The massive fish kill was caused a ...
Topics: California, dams, energy, fishing, food and agriculture, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water conflicts (all these topics)

Is the Sea Half-empty or Half-full? Kazakh Dam Could Save Northern Aral Sea, But Kill Southern Portion		29 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Is the Sea Half-empty or Half-full? Kazakh Dam Could Save Northern Aral Sea, But Kill Southern Portion A seven-mile dam now under construction could mean total devastation for a large southern section of the already beleaguered Aral Sea, which straddles the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. Once the world's fourth largest inland sea, the Aral has lost half its depth and 90 percent of its volume o ...
Topics: Aral Sea, dams, energy, Kazakhstan (all these topics)

Smelter Skelter Enviros Protest Massive Dam in Iceland		09 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Smelter Skelter Enviros Protest Massive Dam in Iceland Extreme weather and remote locations can't stop the forward march of, uh, progress, as Iceland's Karahnjukar dam shows. The dam, which will be Europe's highest, is being built in a huge wilderness area, much to the dismay of environmentalists. They fear it will drown highland vegetation, change the groundwater balance, and create so much mud that in the dry season the dust blowin ...
Topics: dams, energy, Iceland (all these topics)

Salmon Chanted Evening Historic Deal Will Help Atlantic Salmon in Maine		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Salmon Chanted Evening Historic Deal Will Help Atlantic Salmon in Maine In an unprecedented move intended to save plummeting populations of threatened Atlantic salmon, a coalition of environmental groups, government agencies, a Native American tribe, and a power company yesterday announced a plan to take down dams along the Penobscot River, Maine's longest waterway. The project calls for raising $25 million from ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Maine, marine life (all these topics)

Drowned and Out Three Gorges Dam Causing Unexpected Pollution Problems		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Drowned and Out Three Gorges Dam Causing Unexpected Pollution Problems Unexpected environmental problems are already cropping up at China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower and construction project. After the dam went into operation in June, the reservoir behind it reached 443 feet and was supposed to stay at that level until 2006, but the Chinese government recently announced that the ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, hydropower, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Endesa Nigh Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Endesa Nigh Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam After a six-year protest, four elderly Pehuenche women have agreed to end their opposition to a $570 million hydroelectric dam to be built on their ancestral land in Southern Chile. After lengthy negotiations with the Chilean government and Endesa, the Spanish-owned power company building the dam, the wom ...
Topics: Chile, commercial and industry organizations, dams, energy, hydropower, wildlife (all these topics)

An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
An Ice-cold Reception Protesters Greet Bush as He Touts Environmental Policies in Northwest President Bush made a swing through Oregon and Washington state late last week to talk up his environmental agenda in an attempt to attract eco-concerned suburban voters, but he was met with thousands of protesters who didn't buy his promises to deliver "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Fo ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, Northwest, politics, Portland, wilderness (all these topics)

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