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"Jornal do Brasil" Jan. 2008 Article on Reservoir Emissions

Translated extracts from article "Energy Policy: Hydropower and Global Warming" published in Jornal do Brasil, 27 January 2008. For full article in Portuguese click on: http://quest1.jb.com.br/editorias/cienciaetecnologia/papel/2008/01/27/ci...

Alexandre Kemenes, Programa LBA (INPA)

Fizzy Science: Big Hydro’s Role in Global Warming

Patrick McCully

This op-ed first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2006

It comes as a surprise to most people, but the reservoirs behind the world’s dams are likely a major source of global warming pollution. In the case of big reservoirs in the tropics -- where most new dams are proposed -- hydropower can actually emit more greenhouse gases per kilowatt-hour than fossil fuels, including dirty coal.