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Large hydropower dams not sustainable
6th November 2018
Here is a useful report for a range of units: Resources, Ecosystems, Population & Environment, and some useful links between Water and Carbon cycles. Hydropower has more 'costs' that start to tip the cost/benefit balance against it.
2/2 - We know #hydropower has the potential for enormous impact - both good and bad - in the countries REPP supports. That's why we only invest in small-scale run-of river projects that adhere to @IFC_org Environmental and Social Performance Standards.
— Renewable Energy Performance Platform (@repp_energy) November 6, 2018
Living on the bank of the dammed River #Nile in #Uganda & seeing all the environmental & social destruction, with another so called conservation offset area about to be flooded any day, this is a poignant article https://t.co/G3ijDAjy3Y
— Jane (@MsTig1) November 6, 2018
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Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.
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