Cortlandt Town officials say progress is being made in repairs to the Furnace Dock Lake Dam. Town officials will likely vote at the Dec. 11 Town Board meeting to allow the town Engineering Office to seek bids for the project. Town engineers then have about a month of prep work, during which they expect a permit to begin work from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Cortlandt officia ...

India's proposed 850-MW Rattle hydropower project has been awarded environmental approval by the Apex Committee of the Union Ministry of Environment in Dehli, HydroWorld.com has learned. The Rattle hydroelectric plant, to be constructed under a build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) arrangement in India's mountainous Jammu and Kashmir state, will be constructed by GVK Power Infrastructure Limited. The proj ...

Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Minister Vu Huy Hoang last week told the National Assembly's Q&A session that the MoIT and local authorities since late 2009 had rejected 117 substandard hydropower projects "All projects having heavy impacts on the environment and people's life will be removed. The inspection of many other projects, which are either operational or under construction and planning, w ...

Hydropower projects shelved in response to environmental concerns and community relocation issues last year have resumed in recent months in western China. But the bulk of the nation's planned hydroelectric dam projects are still on hold due to nagging cost gaps between hydro and traditional thermal power plants. Hydroelectric dams are expensive to build, and the industry says hydropower tariffs are too low ...

Prime Minister Akil Akilov November 28 chaired a working meeting of relevant ministers and agency directors to discuss issues related to design and construction of small and mid-sized hydro-power stations, News.tj reported November 28, quoting a source in Akilov’s secretariat. Akilov gave the conferees specific instructions to accelerate work on hydro-power stations presently under construction, as well as ...

The dam's redesign is touted as a fix for widespread environmental concerns, but only the project's financial backers appear convinced. Bhuddhist monks led almsgiving and chanting in the Lao valley, where the dam will soon form a concrete barrier across the mainstream Mekong River. The monks were begging forgiveness from mother nature. Construction of the dam has drawn strong local and international opposit ...

Norwegian Ambassador to Pakistan Cecilie Landsverk has said that Pakistan is on the priority list of Norway with special focus on trade and investment and energy. The ambassador was talking to LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar here at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. LCCI Senior Vice President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, Vice President Mian Abuzar Shad, former Presidents Bashir A Baksh, Mian Misbahur Rehman, f ...

SK E&C and KOWEPCO signed a concession agreement for the Xe-Namnoy hydroelectric power project with the Laotian government constructing 410MW hydroelectric power plant as build-operate-transfer (BOT) form in the Mekong River area in Laos. The project groundbreaking in May 2013 and total construction cost will be KRW 750 billion. SK E&C and Korea Western Power Corporation (KOWEPCO) signed a concessio ...

Pakistan hopes that the new Chinese leadership will help clear a $448 million loan pledged for the strategically important Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project located in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). A loan for the 969 MW project had previously been put on the backburner due to a controversy regarding the award of a multibillion rupee project to a Chinese firm. In August 2012, the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakista ...

Hydropower hot spot Bhutan takes a plan to reach hydropower operatives from global arena for better utilization of its untapped potential of over 25,000MW. "With known high potential in hydropower, Bhutan is a place of interest for many big players from the whole globe. It was clearly visible during all our recent business road shows in many countries. It is a good opportunity for Bhutan to utilize foreign ...