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Book La Grande Complex

Download or read book La Grande Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The La Grande Complex  Phase 1

Download or read book The La Grande Complex Phase 1 written by Hydro-Québec and published by [Québec] : Hydro-Québec. This book was released on 1991 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The La Grande Complex

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  • Author : Hydro-Québec
  • Publisher : [Montréal] : Hydro-Québec
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9782551203642
  • Pages : 55 pages

Download or read book The La Grande Complex written by Hydro-Québec and published by [Montréal] : Hydro-Québec. This book was released on 2000 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power Struggles

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  • Author : Thibault Martin
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2011-03-10
  • ISBN : 0887553567
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Power Struggles written by Thibault Martin and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great Whale Project. In the 1970s, both provinces signed so-called “modern treaties” with First Nations for the development of large hydro projects in Aboriginal territories. In recent times, however, the two provinces have diverged in their implementation, and public opinion of these agreements has ranged from celebratory to outrage. Power Struggles brings together perspectives on these issues from both scholars and activists. In debating the relative merits and limits of these agreements, they raise a crucial question: Is Canada on the eve of a new relationship with First Nations, or do the same colonial attitudes that have long characterized Canadian-Aboriginal relations still prevail?

Book Power from the North

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  • Author : Caroline Desbiens
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2013-05-15
  • ISBN : 0774824182
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Power from the North written by Caroline Desbiens and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, Hydro-Qu?bec declared “We Are Hydro-Qu?b?cois.” The slogan symbolized the intimate ties that had emerged between hydroelectric development in the North and French Canadian aspirations in the South. Caroline Desbiens focuses on the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project to explore how this culture of hydroelectricity hastened the erasure of Aboriginal homelands and the manipulation of Northern Quebec’s material landscape. She concludes that truly sustainable resource development will depend on all actors bringing an awareness of their cultural histories and visions of nature, North, and nation to the negotiating table.

Book Megaproject Leaders

Download or read book Megaproject Leaders written by Nathalie Drouin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megaproject Leaders brings together 18 prominent academics who interviewed 16 great megaproject leaders originating from 10 different countries. Based on a reflective methodological approach, these chapters investigate the managing of megaprojects from a human perspective, identify new trends in the managing of megaprojects and identify lessons learned from the personal views of the interviewees. The novel ideas presented will appeal to academics, practitioners and university students.

Book Rock Fragmentation by Blasting

Download or read book Rock Fragmentation by Blasting written by B. Mohanty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of symposium papers covers a wide range of topics on rock fragmentation, from carefully documented case studies to attempts, for example, at fractal representation of the fracture process itself.

Book Taking Back Eden

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  • Author : Oliver A. Houck
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2012-06-22
  • ISBN : 1610911504
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Taking Back Eden written by Oliver A. Houck and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Back Eden is a set of case studies of environmental lawsuits brought in eight countries around the world, including the U.S, beginning in the 1960s. The book conveys what is in fact a revolution in the field of law: ordinary citizens (and lawyers) using their standing as citizens in challenging corporate practices and government policies to change not just the way the environment is defended but the way that the public interest is recognized in law. Oliver Houck, a well-known environmental attorney, professor of law, and extraordinary storyteller, vividly depicts the places protected, as well as the litigants who pursued the cases, their strategies, and the judges and other government officials who ruled on them. This book will appeal to upperclass undergraduates, graduate students, and to all citizens interested in protecting the environment.

Book The La Grande Rivi  re Hydroelectric Complex

Download or read book The La Grande Rivi re Hydroelectric Complex written by Société d'énergie de la Baie James (Québec) and published by Montréal : Société d'énergie de la Baie James. This book was released on 1988 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of environment-related activities in connection with the first phase of construction of the La Grande Riviere hydroelectric complex by the James Bay Energy Society in northern Quebec. Describes what has been learned about protection of the environment through the La Grande Complex.

Book La Grande Complex

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  • Author : Robert Girouard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book La Grande Complex written by Robert Girouard and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes La Grande Complex, a project which involves development of hydroelectric potential of La Grande Riviere in Quebec by building several power plants and reservoirs. Discusses the region, harnessing of rivers, retaining structures, power houses, infrastructure, and James Bay Project.

Book Mercury in the Biogeochemical Cycle

Download or read book Mercury in the Biogeochemical Cycle written by Marc Marcotte and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, major environmental issues are the object of large public debates de spite the fact that scientific knowledge is often insufficient to draw unequivocal conclusions. Such is the case in the ongoing debate regarding the specific contri butions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and of natural climate changes to global warming. At least 10 to 20 years of additional observations will be re quired, before we will be able to conclude, with certainty, on this subject. In the mean time, and as directed by their immediate interests, people will continue to promote contradictory opinions. The media are, in part, responsible for perpetuat ing such debates in that they convey indiscriminately the opinion of highly credi ble scientists as that of dogmatic researchers, the latter, unfortunately too often expressing working hypotheses as established facts. Naturally, in a similarly mis informed manner, pressure groups tend to support the researcher whose opinions most closely represent either their particular ideological battles or their economic interests and, hence, in their own way, add further to the confusion and obscurity of the debate. Only a few years ago, mercury (Hg)contamination in hydroelectric reservoirs was the object of such media and social biases. At the time, analytical data used to support the discourse were themselves uncertain and numerous hypotheses, often times fanciful, were proposed and hastily "delivered" to the public.

Book Boreal Shield Watersheds

Download or read book Boreal Shield Watersheds written by John Gunn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment brings together the work of a renowned international group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic coldwater species of northern glaciated l

Book Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment

Download or read book Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment written by John Glasson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to environmental impact assessment, this text is designed to be used by students of planning, environmental studies and geography.

Book Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project

Download or read book Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project written by James F. Hornig and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning and construction of the James Bay Hydroelectric project began in the early 1970s, when the effect of such projects on the physical and social environment was seldom considered. As the project matured, however, its unique and diverse environmental impacts came under intense scrutiny on both sides of the border. The first mega-scale hydro project to be built in the sub-Arctic, capable of generating as much electricity as fifteen nuclear power plants, its impact includes disruption of vast areas in an extremely fragile ecosystem as well as displacement of native peoples and the introduction of dangerous levels of mercury into their food supply. The debate over these complex environmental issues has been further complicated by political issues stemming from the importance of the project to the economic development of Quebec and the sale of at least ten percent of the electricity generated the United States. The contributors examine core issues of the controversy both in relation to James Bay and to other large hydroelectric projects, such as the Aswan dam in Egypt and the Three Gorges dam in China. Providing insights from an unusual variety of disciplines, the authors offer important considerations that must be taken into account as Quebec assesses additional phases of hydroelectric development of the watershed east of Hudson Bay. Contributors include Raymond B. Coppinger (Hampshire College), Bill Dale Roebuck (Dartmouth Medical School), Will Ryan (Hampshire College), Adrian Tanner (Memorial University), Stanley L. Warner (Hampshire College), Kessler E. Woodward (University of Alaska), and Oran R.Young (Dartmouth College). James F. Hornig is professor emeritus of chemistry and environmental studies, Dartmouth College.

Book Greenhouse Gas Emissions   Fluxes and Processes

Download or read book Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fluxes and Processes written by A. Tremblay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when an unquestionable link between anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and climatic changes has finally been acknowledged and * widely documented through IPCC reports, the need for precise estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) production rates and emissions from natural as well as managed ecosystems has risen to a critical level. Future agreements between nations concerning the reduction of their GHG emissions will - pend upon precise estimates of the present level of these emissions in both natural and managed terrestrial and aquatic environments. From this viewpoint, the present volume should prove to a benchmark contribution because it provides very carefully assessed values for GHG emissions or exchanges between critical climatic zones in aquatic en- ronments and the atmosphere. It also provides unique information on the biases of different measurement methods that may account for some of the contradictory results that have been published recently in the literature on this subject. Not only has a large array of current measurement methods been tested concurrently here, but a few new approaches have also been developed, notably laser measurements of atmospheric CO concentration 2 gradients. Another highly useful feature of this book is the addition of - nitoring and process studies as well as modeling.

Book Climate Rationality

Download or read book Climate Rationality written by Jason S. Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnston unpacks and critiques the legal, economic, and scientific basis for precautionary climate policies pursued in the United States. In doing so, he reveals an alternative approach to climate change policy that would enable the US to efficiently adapt to a changing climate and radically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.