Word: dams
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...Australian general practitioner had traveled for twelve days on the Franklin River, a beautifully remote waterway in western Tasmania, without sign of civilization. Suddenly, near the river's headwaters, he heard the racket of construction equipment -- jackhammers, drilling barges, bulldozers and helicopters. They were about to build a dam that would have destroyed everything Brown had just seen. "I decided on the spot that the preventive medicine I should be involved in was the conservation movement," says Brown, 45. He dropped his medical practice and joined the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, which had taken on the state power commission in what...
...northern spotted owl has become to the timber industry what the tiny snail darter was to dam builders -- a symbol for environmentalists, only cuter. In the 1990s, the owl may curb logging in the Pacific Northwest just as the small fish temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Last week a panel of federal scientists called for a halt to logging on up to 40% of the national forest land in Oregon, Washington and California to keep the owl from becoming extinct. An estimated 1,700 pairs survive, a drop of more than half the population since...
...Well, they are conducting their electoral campaign in our country. Last December they still assured us that we would be able to develop our own democracy. But you can't do anything against a dam breaking. The water spills over you. In our first elections, we of the New Forum have been put at a disadvantage. It's obvious. Those with ties to West German parties have the logistics, whatever is needed to run a campaign. We have only private sympathizers. Nor can I bring myself to look into the television camera and say the same short sentence 20 times...
...Engineers and restore much of the natural flow of South Florida's Kissimmee River. Maine Governor John McKernan, facing a challenge from Democrat Joe Brennan, a strong environmentalist, startled the audience at his state-of-the-state address last month by , proposing to breach the 3,500-kW Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. That would allow free passage of Atlantic salmon, shad and other fish for the first time since...
...Turks recently offered to make electric power available to Syria and Iraq from the huge 22-dam Anatolia project, due for completion in 2005. Over the long term, the offer may cool tempers, but in the next few weeks the simmering water war could get hotter as Syria and Iraq get dryer...