Hydroelectric power

Balkan activists keep fighting for Europe’s last wild rivers

by SABINA NIKSICJuly 10, 2022 GMT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — It took a decade of court battles and street protests, but Balkan activists fighting to protect some of Europe's last wild rivers have scored an important conservation victory in Bosnia.

Colorado lawmakers reject bill to protect natural gas use

By PATTY NIEBERGFebruary 3, 2022 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers rejected state Republican attempts to protect the use of natural gas as cities across the U.S. move toward decarbonization and renewable energy requirements in new buildings.

Portugal limits some reservoir use amid winter drought

February 1, 2022 GMT

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government is restricting the use of some reservoirs for hydroelectric power and irrigation amid an unusual winter drought.

Portugal’s weather agency said that at the end of January all the country was enduring some degree of drought because of relatively low rainfall since November.

Feds reject removal of 4 US Northwest dams in key report

By GILLIAN FLACCUSFebruary 29, 2020 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A long-awaited federal report out Friday rejected the idea of removing four hydroelectric dams on a major Pacific Northwest river in a last-ditch effort tosave threatened and endangered salmon, saying such a dramatic approach would destabilize the power grid, increase overall greenhouse emissions and more than double the risk of regional power outages...