by faster | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 12, 2020 SNIP: Phoenix-based Pumped Hydro Storage LLC has received a preliminary permit from federal regulators for its Big Canyon Pumped Storage Project – a string of four huge dams near the Little Colorado River, along with...
by faster | Jun 26, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Breaking Israel News DATE: June 26, 2020 SNIP: Weeks of heavy rain have put the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydropower project in the world, in danger of collapse putting 400 million people at risk. The flooding has been described as the worst since 1949...
by faster | Jun 22, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: June 22, 2020 SNIP: In a subarctic fjard estuary just a few miles from frozen tundra, Inuit hunter Karl Michelin says he owes his life to the thousands of barking ringed seals that congregate year-round in local waters. The seals’ jet-black,...
by faster | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Seattle Times DATE: February 27, 2020 SNIP: Years and millions of dollars in the making, a draft federal report on hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia Basin will not settle the decades long fight over saving imperiled salmon in the Columbia and Snake...
by faster | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: November 8, 2019 SNIP: The biggest hydroelectric project in the Amazon rainforest has a design flaw that poses a “very serious” threat to human life and globally important ecosystems, according to documents and expert testimony received by...
