Hydroelectricity

Danger May Force Thousands To Move From Three Gorges Dam

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Yangtze River, Video, Bank Collapses, Hydroelectricity, Liu Yuan, Three Gorges Dam, Landslides, China, World News

SHANGHAI -- Another 100,000 people may have to move away from China's Three Gorges Dam due to the risk of disastrous landslides and bank collapses aro...

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PHOTOS: Tribes Rely On Primitive Fish Threatened By Hydroelectric Dams

AP | By JEFF BARNARD | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Northwest Indians, Hydroelectric Dam, Endangered Fish, Confederate Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Hydroelectricity, Fish Threatened, Lamprey, Fishing, Indian Reservation, Animals, Lamprey Threatened, Green News

OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) -- As long as American Indians have lived in the Pacific Northwest, they have looked to a jawless, eel-like fish for food. T...

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African Water Rights in DeNile

Peter Guber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Bangs, The Nile Valley, Ethiopia, Peter Gruber, Hydroelectricity, Valley of the Nile, Africa, World News
Peter Guber

What happens when a group of film and television producers -- master modern storytellers -- travels to Africa, the cradle of Man and the source of all storytelling, on adventure? They find stories, some with an unexpected twist.

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Big Hydro Falls Behind

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Hydroelectric, Bp, Clean Coal, Wind Energy, British Petroleum, International Rivers, Coal, Dirty Coal, Solar Energy, Dams, Hydroelectricity, Hydropower, Climate Change, Solar Power, Green News
Patrick McCully

The fact that wind is now a bigger and more dynamic industry than hydro means that the new renewables industries will increasingly have more economic and political clout.

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Amazon Dam Project: Nine Companies Win Bid For Controversial Hydroelectric Dam

AP | MARCO SIBAJA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Hydroelectric Dam, South America, Bid, Xingu River, Companhia Hidro Eletrica Do Sao Francisco, Hydroelectricity, Belo Monte Dam, Amazon Dam, Amazon, Amazon River, Green News

BRASILIA, Brazil — A consortium of nine companies has won the rights to build one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams, Brazilian authoriti...

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