9. Underlines that the World Commission on Dams concludes, in its report entitled ‘Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making’ of 16 November 2000, that the economic profitability of large dam projects remains elusive, as the environmental and social costs of large dams were poorly accounted for in economic terms;

9. Underlines that the World Commission on Dams concludes, in its report entitled ‘Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making’ of 16 November 2000, that the economic profitability of large dam projects remains elusive, as the environmental and social costs of large dams were poorly accounted for in economic terms;

23. Recognises that the environmental and social impact of large infrastructure projects can be severe; suggests that the criteria provided by the World Commission on Dams, which include options analysis and public participation, form the basis for decision-making in relation to large dam projects;

23. Recognises that the environmental and social impact of large infrastructure projects can be severe; suggests that the criteria provided by the World Commission on Dams, which include options analysis and public participation, form the basis for decision-making in relation to large dam projects;

What we're asking for is to increase the federal wind power incentive to the level of incentive that is provided by the United States, our major trading partner to the south. Second, and equally important, this type of incentive should be extended to other renewable energy technologies at the pre-commercial level—other technologies being biomass from forestry wood waste, urban wood waste, and municipal landfill, wave technologies, as well as run-of-the river, low-impact hydro, using the river as it moves rather than large-storage hydro.

The project will support this by means of three separate operations: - updating the national water plan as a tool for medium- and long- term planning (i.e. spanning the periods 2000-2010/2030-2050) and for developing and using the country's water supply infrastructure; - increasing the protection of large dams in the interests of increasing their safety, by installing monitoring structures and methods compatible with the requirement that there be a rapid interpretation and diagnosis of the regular checks on the state of the structures (soundings); - the rehabilitation of sewage treatment plants by the appropriate national organizations ...[+++], which will receive assistance from European specialists, thus bringing about a transfer of the necessary technology for renovating, operating and maintaining treatment works and revising the concepts of effluent treatment on the basis of efficient technology which is suited to local conditions.