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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Do the Congo? Gigantic hydropower dam planned for Congo River		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:44 PM on 21 Apr 2008 Some of the world's largest banks and construction firms gathered with seven African governments Monday to chat about plans for an $80 billion hydroelectric dam on the Congo River. The proposed Grand Inga dam could generate twice the electricity of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam and greatly increase the amount of cheap and clean power currently available in Africa, according to supporters. &qu ...
Topics: Africa, Congo, dams, energy, hydropower, news (all these topics)

Small hydro, big potential 'Run of river' projects set for a boom?	Erik Hoffner	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, energy at home, hydropower, renewable energy (all these topics)

Patagonia: It's a dam ... threat Some of world's purest water and pristine ecosystems under threat	Gar Lipow	15 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, hydropower (all these topics)

A River Runs Through It Grand Canyon flood supported by feds, criticized by park officials		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:08 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Federal flood control managers will let loose a rush of water through the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, which the feds say is necessary to restore sand banks and side pools, and National Park Service officials say is unnecessary, aimed at pleasing hydropower companies, and could irreparably destroy the habitat it's meant to restore. From the Archives ...
Topics: energy, habitat protection, hydropower, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

And you thought the subprime mess was bad for the homebuilding industry ...	Adam Browning	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, hydropower, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

Flooded With Gratitude Green group and Chinese dam owners will work together to address eco-impact		29 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:01 PM on 29 Jan 2008 The company that owns China's problem-stricken Three Gorges Dam is expected to sign a pact with The Nature Conservancy to conduct a feasibility study on flood risk and floodplain management within the Three Gorges Dam reservoir. The Three Gorges Dam Company and the green group have also agreed to cooperate on researching eco-minded management of four more dams that ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, hydropower, Nature Conservancy, news (all these topics)

Move, Ditch! Get Out the Way China will relocate millions more people for Three Gorges Dam project		15 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:04 PM on 15 Oct 2007 China may force another 2 million to 4 million people out of their homes over the next 10 to 15 years to make room for the reservoir building up behind the Three Gorges Dam -- and that's in addition to the 1.4 million citizens who have already been relocated. The "world's biggest hydropower project" is quickly becoming a big pain in the neck, and not just ...
Topics: China, dams, hydropower, news (all these topics)

Frankly, Madeira, We Don't Want a Dam Brazil gives go-ahead to controversial dams in Amazon		11 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Frankly, Madeira, We Don't Want a Dam Brazil gives go-ahead to controversial dams in Amazon Brazil has given the preliminary OK for two hydroelectric dams to be built on a major Amazon River tributary. Business leaders, who say the dams will provide much-needed energy, are impressed; greens, who see the project as a disaster waiting to happen, are depressed. Proponents say the Santo Antonio and Jirau dams c ...
Topics: biodiversity, Brazil, energy, hydropower, news (all these topics)

Natural gas from dams Dam it all	Gar Lipow	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Brazil, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, hydropower, renewable energy (all these topics)

Let's kill this meme Why we gotta knock solar?	John McGrath	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, hydropower, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

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)

Honorably Discharged Supreme Court sides with enviros on licenses for hydroelectric dams		16 May 2006	Daily Grist
Honorably Discharged Supreme Court sides with enviros on licenses for hydroelectric dams Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the first environmental case considered under new Chief Justice John Roberts ... and sided with enviros (supported, this time, by the Bush administration). At issue was a Maine case hinging on wording in the Clean Water Act, which states that applicants for a f ...
Topics: hydropower, Maine, news, politics, renewable energy (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)

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)

English Beat U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals		20 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
English Beat U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals The British government yesterday announced a plan to not only meet but beat Kyoto Protocol requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The nation will aim to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent by 2010 through a combination of regulations and pollution credit trading systems. Industry groups ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, green living, hydropower, nuclear power, ozone, United Kingdom (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)

Tidal Wave of the Future		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Tidal Wave of the Future The San Francisco Bay could soon become more than just a beautiful backdrop to Fog Town: It could become the engine that powers the city itself. This week, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to investigate commercial tidal power, when it signed on to a $2 million pilot project to generate electricity using the tides in the bay. Every day, almost 400 billion gallons of water rush ...
Topics: California, hydropower, water pollution (all these topics)

Bring Back My Bonnie to Me		04 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Bring Back My Bonnie to Me The Bonneville Power Administration, the largest hydroelectric power producer in the Northwest, is abandoning some of its wildlife conservation plans due to financial woes. The quasi-governmental agency is required by law to compensate for any damage it causes to natural habitats; recently, however, the Northwest Power Planning Council criticized the BPA for failing to spend money on mitigation programs, even ...
Topics: hydropower, wildlife (all these topics)

Rose-colorado Glasses		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Rose-colorado Glasses Colorado residents overwhelmingly support the use of renewable resources over fossil fuels, according to a new study by the Wells Fargo Public Opinion Research Program of the University of Colorado at Denver. Three out of every four of the survey's respondents said the state should meet its energy demands through boosting efficiency rather than increasing gen ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, green living, hydropower, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

A Blow to the Solar Plexus		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
A Blow to the Solar Plexus Renewable energy use in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2001, according to a new report by the Department of Energy. Much of that decline stems from a drought that cut hydroelectric power generation by 23 percent, but the DOE's Energy Information Administration also found that in 2001, solar equipment was retired faster than it was replaced. The bulk of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, hydropower, Iran, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Dam Straight!		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Dam Straight! In what environmentalists hope is the beginning of a major trend, 60 dams across the U.S. are slated for demolition this year and hundreds more are targeted for removal. Last week, for example, Portland General Electric signed a deal to remove the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River in Oregon and a smaller dam on the Little Sandy. Typically, dams being dismantled are no lon ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, hydropower, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics)

Schell Game		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Schell Game Even though U.S. President Bush has withdrawn the U.S. from the Kyoto treaty on climate change, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell (D) and four City Council members announced yesterday that Seattle would easily meet what would have been the greenhouse-gas-reduction target for the U.S. under Kyoto. The city promised to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels and to t ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, hydropower, politics, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Dam! An Agency Breaches the Public Trust Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for the removal of the lower Snake River dams?	Rob Masonis	13 Dec 2000	Soapbox
Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river's imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. sea-run rainbow trout). The Snake once produced more salmon and steelhead than any other river in the vast Columbia River basin -- over 2 million f ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, fishing, hydropower, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Northwest, Snake River (all these topics)

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