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India: Ecologically disastrous dams may get the go-ahead
2015-03-06 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In mid-February, the ministry of environment and forests virtually approved six hydropower dams. This is the latest in an 18-month-long debate on the ecological impact of dams in Uttarakhand. In June 2013, floods severely damaged parts of the state. About 6,000 people died, and tens of thousands of pilgrims were stranded. The disaster destroyed six villages, buried dozens of others in silt, and wrecked highways. Within days of the disaster, environmentalists and villagers alleged dams aggravated...
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Movement to Take Down Thousands of Dams Goes Mainstream
2015-01-28 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: This spring, for the first time in more than two centuries, American shad, striped bass, and river herring may spawn in White Clay Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River in northern Delaware. Early one morning last month, a five-person crew waded into the frigid creek and pulled down most of a timber-and-stone dam that had blocked the river's flow since the early years of the Revolutionary War. The White Clay Creek dam was the first ever removed in the state of Delaware, but it was far from...
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More Chinese Dams on River Shared with India Raises Concerns
2014-11-17 17:05:58| ENR.com: Headline News
India will launch a probe of flash flood risks now faced on the Brahmaputra River, also known a the Tsangpo in China.
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N.C. tightens permit requirements for ash ponds, dams at Duke Energy's Sutton plant
2014-11-08 10:26:30| Energy - Topix.net
Frank Holleman, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, wrote to N.C. regulators in October arguing that their classification of Sutton Lake as a private cooling pond was mistaken. North Carolina environmental regulators tightened water quality rules requirements for Sutton Lake at Duke Energy's closed Sutton Plant, reclassifying the lake as public waters and designating the ash pond dams there as being high-risk.
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Methane emissions may swell from behind dams
2014-10-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Imagine nearly 6,000 dairy cows doing what cows do, belching and being flatulent for a full year. That's how much methane was emitted from one Ohio reservoir in 2012. Reservoirs and hydropower are often thought of as climate friendly because they don't burn fossil fuels to produce electricity. But what if reservoirs that store water and produce electricity were among some of the world's largest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions? Harsha Lake, a large reservoir near Cincinnati, Ohio, emitted...
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