Popular NDP premier implemented an aggressive agenda for B.C.
A pragmatic progressive, John Horgan believed in balanced budgets, engaged with the business community and found common ...
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Environmental Issues in Canada
They’re not doing so well on the environmental front either. Contamination of water bodies from tailings pond and dam failures has become commonplace. In 2014 the Mount Polley tailings dam failure ...
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Switch flipped: B.C.’s $16B Site C power project now generating electricity
BC Hydro says the massive Site C dam project in northeastern British Columbia has started generating power. The provincial electric utility says in a statement that the first of six generating units ...
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Brazil seals $45 billion compensation deal with BHP and Vale after 2015 Brazilian Mariana Dam disaster
Brazil has signed a $45 billion compensation agreement with BPH and Vale for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015. The collapse of the dam near Mariana in 2015 killed 19 people, left hundreds homeless ...
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Dam water release to be gradual, measured
Napocor, which provides missionary electrification to off-grid areas, manages major dams in Luzon, including the Ambuklao Dam and the Binga Dam in Benguet, San Roque Dam in Pangasinan, Angat Dam ...
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Facts about the B.C. Greens who could be kingmakers in the legislature
Pitch to voters: Botterell was an organizer in the fight against the Site C hydroelectric dam. His online biography describes him as dedicating "much of his career to fighting for social and ...
Smithsonian Magazine20d
Salmon Make a Long-Awaited Return to the Klamath River for the First Time in 112 Years, After Largest Dam Removal in U.S.
On October 16, biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) spotted the fish above the former site of the J.C. Boyle Dam in the Upper Klamath River. The dam was one of four ...
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Villagers are wary of plans to dam a river to ensure Panama Canal’s water supply
2, 2024. In a proposed plan to dam the nearby Indio River and secure the Panama Canal’s uninterrupted operation, the community would gain more reliable access to water. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) ...
The Citizen20d
Vaal Dam level continues to drop. Here’s what it stood at this week
The Vaal Dam is the primary feeder for Rand Water, which draws from the Sterkfontein Dam should the Vaal have a distinguished low capacity. Vaal Dam. Image: Department of Water and Sanitation The ...
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Powering Africa: 6,450-MW Ethiopian dam to harness Nile waters for energy
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), positioned on the Blue Nile, is set to become the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa and one of the top ten worldwide. GERD could make Ethiopia a ...
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Why are victims of a Brazil dam disaster suing miner BHP in a London court?
On November 5, 2015, a tailings dam collapsed releasing iron ore sludge into the Rio Doce (Sweet River) in southeastern Brazil. The toxic waste contaminated the river water and damaged its ecosystem.