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dave
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Post Number: 139
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 10:53 pm: | 
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i'm trying to find a topic for an essay for my water resources management class, and i'm thinking of doing the environmental impacts of hydropower in northern ontario...does anyone have any tips on where to find some good information?
*not trying to cheat, just still in the research process and need to see how much i can find on it |
mr_pike
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Post Number: 18
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 7:53 am: |
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Google " Draining of Rocky Island Lake in northern Ontario" |
erhard
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Post Number: 12
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 9:19 am: |
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No study as such, that I am aware of, but some material that might be useful:
* an essay by Hoop describing how the roads that service the power projects are ripping into the intact ecosystem ("back country") to create "front country": opening the forst canopies, introducing species alien to this environment, rutting soil and erosion isssues, trash....
http://wildernesscanoe.ca/DEATH_WILDERNESS_CANOEIN G.pdf
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http://wildernesscanoe.ca/LANGUAGE_ROUTE_PROTECTIO N.pdf
* a trip report on the Mattagami describing the paddler's view of a river that follows the power pulse of the big cities 800km to the south, as the turbines operate according to electricity demands
http://pages.interlog.com/~erhard/mattagam.htm |
dave
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Post Number: 140
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 7:56 pm: |
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thanks guys..it's now a toss-up between that topic, and the correlation between canada's water legislation, the environmental impacts, and the impacts on our drinking water (primarily focussing on native reserves) |
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