Sentence examples for hydropower dam from inspiring English sources

The most blatant misuse of the program has been to support large hydropower dam projects, said Mr. McCully of International Rivers.

In relation to large-scale plantation, mining and hydropower dam concessions, I also stress the importance of political memories in (re)shaping understandings of landscapes, thus creating particular varieties of memory laden political landscapes, which too are constituted by the past but are also politically mobilized in the present.

NUREK, Tajikistan — The inscription just above a tunnel at the foot of the colossal Nurek hydropower dam in south central Tajikistan is succinct: "Water Is Life".

This month it emerged that Uganda's most ambitious energy project – the Karuma hydropower dam – had been caught up in the spider's web of powerful special interests.

They claim GVK, the infrastructure company building the Srinagar hydropower dam, raised the level of the riverbed by dumping muck from the dam construction into it.

Last week insurgents claimed to have captured Syria's largest hydropower dam, important oil fields in the northeast, an airfield full of usable warplanes and troves of other weapons, corroborating their claims with videos posted on the Internet.

The rapid rivers of Sichuan are packed with hydropower dams.

China's proposed expansion of hydropower dams is not the solution.

In mid-February, the ministry of environment and forests virtually approved six hydropower dams.

The deaths result from conflicts over mining, hydropower dams, plantations and logging, with three-quarters of the lives lost being in South America.

"The hydropower dams under construction, or on the drawing board in Arunachal Pradesh, appear to be an enormous source of anxiety in Assam," he said.