07-06-2005, 01:01 AM
Here is the first cut of the PREAMBLE:
Quote:
Mitigation of Hydroelectric Plants
A resolution to increase the quality of the world?s environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Mikitivity
Description:
The NationStates United Nations,
RECOGNIZING that many large watersheds and river systems cross international boundaries, and thus represent a shared resource between riparian nations;
OBSERVING the international nature of the economic benefit of abundant and healthy anadromous fish populations, such as salmon, which are born in small mountainous freshwater streams where they remain as fry and parr before transforming into smolts, then travel hundreds of kilometers down major river systems to reach the sea where they live most of their adult lives, and later return to the same streams where they were hatched in order to breed, to ocean and freshwater commercial fisheries;
AWARE that salmon represent an important source of Omega-3 fatty acids, though farmed salmon tend to have higher concentrations of dioxins and PCBs than wild salmon;
NOTING the desire to increase the maximum electrical output of existing hydroelectric plants by raising the head, or maximum storage height of the plant, or to design new hydroelectric power plants in order to meet growing electricity demands as part of an alternative to relying upon other forms of power generation;
BEARING IN MIND that the operation of large-scale hydroelectric plants alters the unimpaired (i.e. natural) water temperature and sediment load in the water downstream of the planet;
TAKING NOTE of the fact that since many migratory species, including anadromous fish, can not tolerate significant long-term deviations in the natural variations in water temperature and / or sediment loads, that there have been declines in many natural species populations;
CONVINCED that in order for hydroelectric power to be of net beneficial use, that the environmental and commercial impacts on reservoir releases must be managed or mitigated in a sustainable way;
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I plan to work on the activating clauses next. With these, I'm going to talk about Temperature Control Devices, Fish Ladders, and find some way to address sediment loads and bank erosion issues. The resolution will close by calling upon nations that share international water ways to work closely together. I might want to stress again that salmon are often caught in the ocean, where they truely are an international resource, even if the fish are born in the mountains of a single nation.
Quote:
Mitigation of Hydroelectric Plants
A resolution to increase the quality of the world?s environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Mikitivity
Description:
The NationStates United Nations,
RECOGNIZING that many large watersheds and river systems cross international boundaries, and thus represent a shared resource between riparian nations;
OBSERVING the international nature of the economic benefit of abundant and healthy anadromous fish populations, such as salmon, which are born in small mountainous freshwater streams where they remain as fry and parr before transforming into smolts, then travel hundreds of kilometers down major river systems to reach the sea where they live most of their adult lives, and later return to the same streams where they were hatched in order to breed, to ocean and freshwater commercial fisheries;
AWARE that salmon represent an important source of Omega-3 fatty acids, though farmed salmon tend to have higher concentrations of dioxins and PCBs than wild salmon;
NOTING the desire to increase the maximum electrical output of existing hydroelectric plants by raising the head, or maximum storage height of the plant, or to design new hydroelectric power plants in order to meet growing electricity demands as part of an alternative to relying upon other forms of power generation;
BEARING IN MIND that the operation of large-scale hydroelectric plants alters the unimpaired (i.e. natural) water temperature and sediment load in the water downstream of the planet;
TAKING NOTE of the fact that since many migratory species, including anadromous fish, can not tolerate significant long-term deviations in the natural variations in water temperature and / or sediment loads, that there have been declines in many natural species populations;
CONVINCED that in order for hydroelectric power to be of net beneficial use, that the environmental and commercial impacts on reservoir releases must be managed or mitigated in a sustainable way;
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I plan to work on the activating clauses next. With these, I'm going to talk about Temperature Control Devices, Fish Ladders, and find some way to address sediment loads and bank erosion issues. The resolution will close by calling upon nations that share international water ways to work closely together. I might want to stress again that salmon are often caught in the ocean, where they truely are an international resource, even if the fish are born in the mountains of a single nation.