river engineering | river works

Upper Salmon Hydroelectric Development

Lower Musquash River Hydroelectric Development

Hydroelectric Development on Rapid River

river bank | riverbank

plan of management | working plan

facility manager | mine development engineers | development engineer | mine development engineer

river bank | riverbank

I am particularly concerned about the Newfoundland government's plan for development on the Main River which is a heritage river in a pristine environment and the home of the pine marten.

Pollution from point and diffuse sources, over-abstraction of water and alterations to rivers and lakes threaten efforts to achieve good status for European waters by 2015.

12. Doubts whether specific operational programmes for functional geographical entities such as groups of authorities including local areas, or sea or river basins will yield additional benefits, in particular in cases where there are no political authorities (including democratically elected authorities) with a sufficiently wide-ranging remit to implement them; calls instead for closer coordination of macroregional, metropolitan regional or environmental-geographic strategies at inter-governmental level and for appropriate consideration to be given to these functional geographical entities within national operational programmes in order to facilitate the use of EU funding for interregional development projects; considers that specific op ...[+++]erational programmes should be an option for delivery in regions where sub-regional delivery provides added value vis-à-vis national and regional programmes and where partnerships have been formed by political bodies for implementation purposes; calls for cross-border groupings to be involved in devising the operational programmes for cross-border programmes, on the basis of the EGTC Regulation;

10. Asks the Commission and the Member States to ensure that flood risk management measures focus on the prevention of damage through changes in land use and through giving rivers more space where possible; considers that such measures, which work with nature and not against it, would protect people, property and the environment and help achieve environmentally sustainable water management and land use planning, as well as the EU objective for biodiversity and the EU climate change adaptation strategy;