[PDF] The Muskrat Falls Hydro Project eBook

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Release : 2012
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Labrador has significant potential for the production of hydroelectric power, ranking it among the top remaining, undeveloped resources in North America. The proposed Muskrat Falls project at Lower Churchill Falls would be the second major development of Labrador's hydro resource. Hydropower is the leading renewable, noncarbon resource in the world. While no generating resource can be developed without environmental and social impacts, the remote location of the Churchill facilities makes them especially attractive for development. At the same time, their remoteness imposes unusually heavy transmission costs to bring the power to customers -- the load. Because there is no fuel cost, the capital costs of hydro generation and transmission allow planners to have a good idea of power supply costs over the long term.

Author : Gordon Lee Weil
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
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Labrador has significant potential for the production of hydroelectric power, ranking it among the top remaining, undeveloped resources in North America. The proposed Muskrat Falls project at Lower Churchill Falls would be the second major development of Labrador's hydro resource. Hydropower is the leading renewable, noncarbon resource in the world. While no generating resource can be developed without environmental and social impacts, the remote location of the Churchill facilities makes them especially attractive for development. At the same time, their remoteness imposes unusually heavy transmission costs to bring the power to customers -- the load. Because there is no fuel cost, the capital costs of hydro generation and transmission allow planners to have a good idea of power supply costs over the long term.

Author : Stephen Crocker
Publisher : Social and Economic Papers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781894725941

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"For almost a decade now, the 13 billion dollar Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been a central defining problem in the public life of Newfoundland and Labrador. As the essays collected in Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation show, the dam's promise of clean hydro-power has been accompanied by an interconnected assemblage of crises linking together the threat of methylmercury poisoning with catastrophic flooding and cultural genocide for people living near the dam, and unmanageable public debt, suppression of alternative energy and threats to affordable domestic heat and electricity for everyone else. Its planning and development have involved the weakening of public regulatory bodies and the creation of a more privatized and less publicly accountable crown corporation overseeing the operation. Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political and environmental problems the hydroelectric project has caused. It covers issues including Indigenous resistance to the dam; the politics and economics of the project; the role of journalism and social media in covering the event; controversy about the geophysical stability of the dam and interviews people living under threat of flooding and methylmercury poisoning downstream. The volume also contains original artwork and photography about the dam and fictional prose about life in the area around the Falls. Muskrat Falls will be of interest to local readers trying to understand how the dam will change life in the province and to anyone trying to understand and respond to any of the very many other similar, crisis-ridden energy and infrastructure projects being built around the world now. The book provides a rich case study of a crisis for scholars and students interested in areas such as energy studies, environmental humanities, Indigenous studies, critical infrastructure studies, and Canadian studies."--

Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
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Release : 2018
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This report was commissioned by the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project to provide the national and international context in which the Muskrat Falls Project took place. The Commission asked for the report to cover three specific topics of questions: (1) What is the national and international context of the Muskrat Falls Project with regards to cost overrun and schedule overrun? (What are the typical cost and schedule overruns of hydro-electric dam projects? How do hydro-electric dams compare to other capital investment projects? How do Canadian projects compare to other countries?), (2) What are the causes and root causes of cost and schedule overruns? (3) What are recommendations, based on international experience and research into capital investment projects, to prevent cost and schedule overruns in hydro-electric dam projects and other capital investment projects?

Author : Brian Tokar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000049213

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This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa. They offer various perspectives on how a just transition toward a fossil-free economy can take shape, as they share efforts to protect water resources, better feed their communities, and implement new approaches to urban policy and energy democracy. Climate Justice and Community Renewal uniquely highlights the accounts of people who are directly engaged in local climate struggles and community renewal efforts, including on-the-ground land defenders, community organizers, leaders of international campaigns, agroecologists, activist-scholars, and many others. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.

Author : Esha Shah
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3038978108

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Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts.

Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Energy industries
ISBN : 1593921004

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