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Wind Power – Yes, but Not Mega-Wind
The public must come to understand the urgent need to reduce the demand for energy and for non-essential industrial products. Although the arguments can be expressed less harshly, the reality itself is harsh, and it is essential that our societies grapple with it. Only with severely reduced demand can renewables or any of the other elements of a solution offer hope for a transition to some degree of sustainability.
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Streamflow Simulations of the Terrestrial Arctic Regime
Grand River Keeper Labrador has been keeping a keen eye on the weather patterns and hydrology of the Artic regions for several years given our proximity in Canada’s north. This region, often considered as sub-arctic has several common characteristics pertaining to climate, ecological features, and proximity to oceans The Arctic Ocean flow into the Atlantic
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Negative Impacts of Damming Rivers
Rivers act as reactive conduits connecting the continental and oceanic carbon (C) cycles, and all the available evidence suggests that river damming significantly changes the export of organic carbon (OC) to the ocean. Dam construction and closure modify the downstream transfer of OC and essential nutrients, and thus the trophic state of the river system and that of receiving water bodies, including lakes and nearshore marine environments.
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White Papers From a Workshop on Arctic System Hydrology
n September 2000, a workshop was convened to identify several notable gaps in our current level of understanding of arctic hydrological systems. The primary goal of this workshop was to assess the current state of the art in arctic systems hydrology and identify the appropriate roles that NSF-ARCSS could play in supporting the relevant science.
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Labrador group signs declaration to UN to stop hydroelectricity from being marketed as green energy
Grand Riverkeeper Labrador, Inc. (GRL) was one of 340 organizations from 78 countries that called upon the UNFCCC to agree that “Climate mitigation efforts must reject so-called ‘sustainable hydropower”’ as a solution to combat climate change.”
Personal Reflections of the May 17, 2017 Flooding of Mud Lake .
No one in Mud Lake will ever forget May 17, 2017, when the unthinkable happened. Flood waters breached the banks of the channel, and there was no stopping the inundation. Read some personal accounts.
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Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century
North American and European countries built many large dams until 1975, after which both started to abandon a significant part of their installed hydropower because of the negative social and environmental impacts.
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Changes in Snow and Sea Ice in the Arctic
e. As the Arctic warms, ice (both
terrestrial ice and snow, and sea ice) melts, amplifying warmth. And with the loss of terrestrial ice, sea level rises. Because the feedback processes responsible for the observed Arctic amplifica tion in the past remain active today, it is very likely that Arctic amplification will continue for the foreseeable future, With this amplification, sea ice will continue to contract, and glaciers and ice sheets will experience accelerated melting, with concomitant increases in the rate of sea level rise.
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Muskrat Falls transmission fix requires 9,000 new pieces of equipment
This latest chapter of the Muskrat Falls saga; replacement of air flow spoilers on the 161 spans, comes weeks after Hydro announced the vastly overbudget project’s price tag had hit $13.5 billion and an independent report stated at least one of the power plant’s four generating units must be fully dismantled.
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