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Hydro Dams
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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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.”
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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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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Hydropower dams can harm coastal areas far downstream
Hydropower dams degrade water quality along rivers. Water that flows downstream is depleted of oxygen, which harms many aquatic animals.
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Sold down the river
After a decade of work and $13.4 billion — nearly double the price tag promised in 2012 — there are now serious doubts the project will ever perform as designed. Equipment is falling from overhead lines in locations so remote it takes days to reach them before repairs can even begin. Muskrat Falls power is so unreliable that an aging thermal plant the project was meant to replace will remain open for years to come.
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