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Costa Rica ready to open hydroelectric plant
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4039710Costa Rica is putting the finishing touches on the largest hydroelectric power project in Central America, as the last generators come on line.The Reventazon dam is expected to produce 305.5...
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Hydroelectric plant ready to open in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is putting the finishing touches on the largest hydroelectric power project in Central America, as the last generators come on line.The Reventazon dam is expected to produce 305.5 megawatts of electricity, enough to power...
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Borneo mega-dam 'nail in the coffin' for local people
VOICED: Borneo mega-dam 'nail in the coffin' for local people
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200-foot-long hole in California dam
Water could pour over an emergency spillway at Lake Oroville for the first time ever, a last-ditch alternative that California officials said they had been hoping to avoid.The California Department of Water Resources said that the...
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Major campaign to safeguard Morocco's shrinking oases
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Drought and desertification are threatening the oases of Morocco despite sustained efforts by the government to manage and increase water resources.
But programs to help small scale farmers withstand...
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CLEAN : Tiny Michigan town in water fight with Nestle
Global food conglomerate Nestle is in a battle with critics in tiny Osceola Township Michigan where residents complain the Swiss company's water extraction techniques are ruining the environment
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What Can Be Saved? Dams threaten wild river
One of Europe's last wild rivers is under threat from development.
Bloomberg
Steel Industry Is Ready for Infrastructure Investments, Nucor CEO Says
Mar.04 -- Nucor CEO Leon Topalian says the American steel industry can handle any increased demand rising from passage of an infrastructure bill in Congress. He appears on "Balance of Power."
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Global warming could be the cause of Australia's severe drought
1. Various of sheep in paddock with no grass
2. Dried-up water hole
3. Kangaroo looking for water
4. Pan over dried-up water hole
5. Cows and one sheep on brown paddock
6. Various of Angus McNeil and dog, gathering sheep
7. SOUNDBITE:...
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State council presser on Three Gorges Dam project
Meiping Village, Hubei province, November 22, 2007
1. Wide Yangtze River pan to Meiping Village
2. Village house
3. Wide villagers talking pan to village and warning sign
4. Close landslide warning sign
5. Tilt down landslide
6....
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Environmentalists claim beavers are destroying woodland areas
1. Wide shot of dam built by beavers
2. Various of Julio Escobar, ecologic scientist walking in the woods
3. Pan from CADIC, Southern Centre for Scientific Research sign to building
4. Set up shot of Julio Escobar, ecologic scientist...
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At least 25 dead as Tropical Storm Olga rips through Carribean
Santiago Province
1. Flood water rushing over Tavera dam
2. Man walking in chest deep water
3. Pull out of flooding around electrical towers
4. Person being carried away in stretcher
5. Various of overflowing river
6. Houses in...
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Protest as Chilean court approves controversial dam project
1. Various of march against hydroelectric dam project in the wilds of Patagonia
2. Various of armoured police truck with water cannon firing at protesters
3. Protester throwing cardboard box at armoured vehicle
4. Tilt down from plume of...
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Barcelona prepares for the dry season one year after a severe drought
Sant Roma de Sau, June 17, 2009
1. Wide shot of Sau water reservoir at maximum capacity
Sant Roma de Sau, April 29, 2008
2. Wide shot of Sau water reservoir empty with medieval village exposed
Sant Roma de Sau, June 17, 2009
3. Mid shot...
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COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TRIBE FIGHT DAM CONSTRUCTION
Spanish/Nat
An indigenous tribe in Colombia is fighting the government over the construction of a hydroelectric dam, claiming that it is ruining their lands and their lives.
For two decades, the Embera indigenous community of northwest...
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Effects on the environment of the Three Gorges dam
Yichang - 15 June 2003
1. Wide shot the Three Gorges Dam
2. Mid shot water pumping out of the dam
3. Wide shot water underneath the dam
4. Wide shot reservoir, part of the Yangtze river
5. Mid shot garbage floating on water
6. Close-up...
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Indians rally against dam projects
1. Aerial Xingu river
2. Pan of Altamira riverside
3. Zoom out from group of Indians to wide of Indian protest meeting
4. Pan of Indians
5. Indian with video camera
6. Man shows drawing of before and after dam building
7. SOUNDBITE...
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Villages set to be submerged as demand for water in cities grows
Beijing, China - July 2008
1. Wide of water fountain in front of Forbidden City
2. Close up jets of water with Mao portrait in background
3. Close up jets of water with national emblem in background
4. Wide of boat in lake at Beihai...
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Non Aligned Summit, Eu-Us Summit, G8, Climate
Acting Cuban President Raul Castro stood in for his brother at the September opening of the Non-Aligned Summit which brings together more than a hundred of the world's developing nations. After acknowledging his brother's illness, Raul...
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Concerns about the impact of theThree Gorges Dam
Yichang city, Hubei province - Nov.30, 2007
1. Wide high shot of Three Gorges Dam in Yichang city, Hubei province
2. Wide of Three Gorges Dam
3. Wide, tilt up of power generating section of Three Gorges Dam
4. Medium of part of power...
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Woman fights plans to build Arcediano dam
1. Wide of house owned by Guadalupe Lara, Arcediano Resident and Plaintiff
2. Medium of Guadalupe looking out of and opening room's window
3. Medium of hanging bridge
4. Medium of Santiago River
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Guadalupe Lara,...
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Special envoy Ruggiero in talks with Qureshi, comment
1. US Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Frank Ruggiero (on right) signing agreement on a dam projects in Pakistan
2. Close up of a still picture on wall showing dam
3. Various of Ruggiero and Javed Iqbal,...
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Iran battles to save one of the world's largest saltwater lakes
Lake Oroumieh in Iran - or at least what's left of it.
It's one of the largest saltwater lakes on earth, but in the past decade, it's shrunk by more than 80 percent to just 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles).
Experts claim it's...
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BORDER TOWNS HOPE FOR BETTER TRADE
People in border towns in the southwest of China are watching Myanmar's political reforms, hoping they might mean a brighter economic future for them.
But with Myanmar's political future still unstable nothing is certain.
Money changes...