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Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin

DeSmogBlog

The Bayou Bridge pipeline has left a dam across the Atchafalaya Basin affecting the fisheries, the birds, the otters, minks, raccoons, and nutria,” Meche said. Tags: Bayou Bridge pipeline Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Energy Tranfer Partners

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U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Utilizes Planet Data to Monitor Endangered Species Populations and Their Critical Habitat

Planet Pulse

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for monitoring parts of the Missouri River Basin to make sure that the Endangered Species Act is adhered to, while ensuring the Missouri River Mainstem System dams continue producing energy. For more than 20 years, the USACE and U. Fish and Wildlife Service to the USACE.

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Indigenous leader in Philippines 'red-tagged' and killed over dam opposition

Eco-Business

The killing of nine Indigenous leaders by police during an operation in the central Philippines on 30 Dec 2020, has drawn widespread condemnation from environmental and human rights groups, politicians, lawyers, and Catholic bishops.

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How much dam water is needed for fish and energy?

Envirotec Magazine

Research into water flow and fish passage through dams in the US suggests new options for meeting energy and environmental needs, writes Alexandra Freibott for the US Dept of Energy and Pacific Northwest Laboratory. Hydropower dams provide reliable renewable energy, but they also have a direct impact on the environment, especially fish.

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Aether makes diamonds out of dirty air

AGreenLiving

Miners have built dams and rerouted rivers to expose riverbeds, adversely affecting fish and other wildlife. years of carbon footprint and a price tag of nearly $40,000. The main troubles in the diamond business start in the extraction phase. All of the company’s gold is fairly mined and comes in yellow, white or rose gold.

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

DeSmogBlog

Also not mentioned: NRG’s Petra Nova project doesn’t actively capture carbon, despite its $1 billion price tag. That makes the Boundary Dam project in Canada the world’s only operating coal carbon capture project. The company was originally slated to reach this milestone by October 2018.

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Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors

DeSmogBlog

In response to massive protests against the RENACE and OXEC dams in 2015 and 2016, FUNDESA director Salvador Paiz wrote various pieces about extremist environmentalists, describing environmentalists across Latin America as a “terrorist network” and calling out the leader of the dam protests, Bernardo Caal Xol, in particular as an outside agitator.