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Sardar Superstar India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years		09 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Sardar Superstar India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years For citizens of India, debate over dams is soap-operatic. Take the saga of the country's still-unfinished Sardar Sarovar dam. It has everything: protests, riots, hunger strikes, and long, protracted court battles. Proponents of the $7.7 billion dam on the Narmada River claim that, when completed, it will produce megawatts upon megawatts of m ...
Topics: dams, energy, hydropower, India, news (all these topics)

Profit and Laos Big dam project in Laos aims to minimize environmental and social damage		26 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Profit and Laos Big dam project in Laos aims to minimize environmental and social damage A controversial hydropower dam under construction in Laos will serve as a test case for whether a large dam can be built without trampling too heavily on the natural world and human rights. Supporters, including the World Bank, say the Nam Theun 2 dam will set a new standard for social and environmental responsibility. Activists ...
Topics: dams, energy, hydropower, Laos, news (all these topics)

Village of the Dammed China nears completion of massive Three Gorges Dam, plots more dam-building		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Village of the Dammed China nears completion of massive Three Gorges Dam, plots more dam-building Construction of the world's largest hydroelectric dam -- the Three Gorges Dam in China -- may be completed as soon as May 20, nine months ahead of schedule. The $22 billion dam on the Yangtze River will eventually flood the homes of some 1.3 million people. Evacuees worry they'll be placed in villages with no farmlan ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, news, Yangtze River (all these topics)

It Had to Be Yu In China, Yu Xiaogang is helping locals fight back against dams	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2006	Main Dish
China has spent decades trying to harness its powerful river systems with dams. Enormous hydroelectric projects, most notably the Three Gorges Dam now under construction on the Yangtze River, have devastated local economies and ecosystems. Yu Xiaogang. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Chinese environmentalist Yu Xiaogang, founder of the group Green Watershed, says the people harmed ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking		06 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking Demonstrations against dams in India's Narmada Valley yesterday brought the heavy hand of police, who roughed up protestors and arrested India's most famous environmentalist eight days into a hunger strike on charges of -- get this -- attempting suicide. Medha Patkar's fast started when officials began raisin ...
Topics: dams, energy, environmental justice, India, news, politics (all these topics)

Damalot Jacques Leslie's Deep Water sheds light on dam dramas	Michelle Nijhuis	12 Oct 2005	Arts and Minds
What does hell look like to an environmentalist? In the classic Encounters With the Archdruid, writer John McPhee imagines this particular inferno. The outer ring, he writes, is a moat filled with DDT. Inside lies another moat brimming with burning gasoline, and still deeper are masses of bulldozers and chainsaws. In the middle -- at "the absolute epicenter of hell on earth" -- stands a dam. & ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, dams, energy, India (all these topics)

Hustle and Flow Montana and mining companies to fund massive river cleanup, restoration		03 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Hustle and Flow Montana and mining companies to fund massive river cleanup, restoration An historic financial settlement between the state of Montana and two mining firms has opened the door to a project of ecological scope virtually unprecedented in the U.S.: the removal of Montana's Milltown dam, located at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, and the restoratio ...
Topics: dams, energy, mining and drilling, Montana, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Thrill Spill Cult Water should keep pouring over Northwest dams to aid salmon, court says		28 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Thrill Spill Cult Water should keep pouring over Northwest dams to aid salmon, court says Salmon will continue to find a watery way over several Northwest dams. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week voted to uphold a federal judge's June order for the feds to aid migrating salmon by spilling water over five dams in the Columbia and Snake river systems in the Northwest. A three-judge panel of the a ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, news, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Queen of the Dammed British royals to bolster green rep with efficient mini-hydro plant		25 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Queen of the Dammed British royals to bolster green rep with efficient mini-hydro plant On Friday, a local U.K. council approved Queen Elizabeth's plan to build a mini hydroelectric power plant dedicated to Windsor Castle. The energy-efficient four-turbine plant on the River Thames is expected to supply enough electricity to keep about a third of the castle juiced. It'll be the largest of its kind in the Sout ...
Topics: dams, energy, hydrogen, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

And Squad Said, Let There Be Blight Judge orders dam spills in Northwest; critics may call on higher power		13 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
And Squad Said, Let There Be Blight Judge orders dam spills in Northwest; critics may call on higher power Just two weeks after ruling that the Bush administration plan to protect Northwest salmon was inadequate, on Friday U.S. District Judge James Redden issued an order for large-scale spilling of water at a number of dams that are hindering the ability of juvenile salmon to navigate downstream ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, hydrogen, news, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Salmon and Denial-Ah Federal judge calls Bush admin's salmon plan fishy		27 May 2005	Daily Grist
Salmon and Denial-Ah Federal judge calls Bush admin's salmon plan fishy In a strongly worded opinion, U.S. District Judge James Redden yesterday ruled that the Bush administration's salmon-protection plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest is "contrary to law" because it doesn't take into account how dams affect the fish's chances of recovery. This is ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, news, Pacific Northwest, Snake River (all these topics)

They're Just Not That Into You Low Northwest salmon run confounds fishers, closes fisheries		12 May 2005	Daily Grist
They're Just Not That Into You Low Northwest salmon run confounds fishers, closes fisheries Conservationists, salmon enthusiasts, and fisheries managers along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest are wondering, Is it something we said? They've been stood up by thousands of chinook salmon that were expected to swim up the river to spawn this season, but n ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, Idaho, news, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Washington (all these topics)

Iceland of Make-Believe Little-known facts from a country on the edge of your consciousness	Katharine Wroth	26 Apr 2005	Counter Culture
39,756 -- area of Iceland, in square miles1 39,728 -- area of Kentucky, in square miles2 293,966 -- population of Iceland3 4,117,827 -- population of Kentucky2 10 -- percentage of Icelanders who believe elves "definitely" exist4 0 -- number of successful elf surveys conducted in Kentucky 11.5 -- percentage of Iceland that is covered by glaciers1 3,240 -- square mil ...
Topics: dams, energy, Greenpeace, Iceland, Kentucky, oceans (all these topics)

Announcing: Business as Usual Plan for Colorado River to aid wildlife, preserve intensive water use		06 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Announcing: Business as Usual Plan for Colorado River to aid wildlife, preserve intensive water use Federal water managers this week joined the states of California, Arizona, and Nevada in trumpeting a new 50-year plan to aid native wildlife along parts of a 400-mile stretch of the Colorado River from Lake Mead to the Mexican border. Prompted by a 1997 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser ...
Topics: Colorado River, dams, energy, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Busy Bee Environmental series on Hetch Hetchy Valley wins Pulitzer Prize		05 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Busy Bee Environmental series on Hetch Hetchy Valley wins Pulitzer Prize The best opinion writing takes the unthinkable and makes it a live possibility. That's what Sacramento Bee Associate Editor Tom Philp did with "Hetch Hetchy Reclaimed," his editorial series on breaching the dam that has held Yosemite National Park's famed valley under water since 1923. The Pulitzer board, which yesterday awar ...
Topics: California, dams, energy, national parks, news (all these topics)

Not Just Another Pretty Space An interview with risk-taking park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Nature Noir	Aaron Dalton	23 Mar 2005	Arts and Minds
Jordan Fisher Smith. If you had to guess which federal agents in the U.S. face the greater danger, who would you put your money on: the officers who wage the endless War on Drugs, or the rangers who patrol the green acres of the national parks? Well, it's the rangers. According to a 2001 study by the Bureau of Justice, nature's security guards are twice a ...
Topics: dams, energy, interview, National Park Service, national parks (all these topics)

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)

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