Water-powers of CanadaMortimer, 1911 - 397 páginas |
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Water-powers of Canada Canada. Commission of Conservation,Sir Clifford Sifton,Leo German Denis,Arthur V. White Visualização integral - 1911 |
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Water-powers of Canada Canada. Commission of Conservation,Sir Clifford Sifton,Leo German Denis,Arthur V. White Visualização integral - 1911 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Agreement Annual Report approved banks basin Brunswick Canadian Niagara Power canal cent chap chute Commissioners construction creek cubic feet DEVELOPED Horse-power discharge DISTRICT diversion drainage area Elec electrical energy electrical power estimated falls and rapids feet per second flow GAUGE Georgian Bay Government Governor in Council Grand falls granted Grist mill Head in feet hydraulic Hydro-Electric Power Commission International Waterways International Waterways Commission irrigation John river Lake Erie lands Lawrence lease legislation lessee license Lieutenant-Governor in Council low-water maps miles long mill dam minimum Minister Montreal mouth municipalities navigation Niagara Falls Niagara Falls Park Niagara river Nova Scotia Ontario Power Order in Council Ottawa River possible power development Power Light trical power purposes Province of Ontario quantity Quebec Railway regulations respecting saw mill Sess square miles storage stream thereof Toronto transmission tributary United Vict water privilege water-power watershed Welland Welland River
Passagens conhecidas
Página 357 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 341 - For the purposes of this treaty boundary waters are defined as the waters from main shore to main shore of the lakes and rivers and connecting waterways, or the portions thereof, along which the international boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada passes...
Página 346 - India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise...
Página 70 - So long as this treaty shall remain in force, no diversion of the waters of the Niagara River above the Falls from the natural course and stream thereof shall be permitted except for the purposes and to the extent hereinafter provided.
Página 70 - The HIg-h Contracting Parties agree that it is expedient to limit the diversion of waters from the Niagara River so that the level of Lake Erie and the flow of the stream shall not be appreciably affected.
Página 345 - This International Joint Commission shall have jurisdiction over and shall pass upon all cases involving the use or obstruction or diversion of the waters with respect to which under Articles III and IV of this treaty the approval of this Commission is required...
Página 346 - Commission is authorized to examine into and report upon the facts and circumstances of the particular questions and matters referred, together with such conclusions and recommendations as may be appropriate, subject, however, to any restrictions or exceptions which may be imposed with respect thereto by the terms of the reference.
Página 345 - IV of this treaty the approval of this Commission is required, and in passing upon such cases the Commission shall be governed by the following rules or principles which are adopted by the high contracting parties for this purpose : The high contracting parties shall have, each on its own side of the boundary, equal and similar rights in the use of the waters hereinbefore defined as boundary waters.
Página 64 - The Commission, therefore, recommend that such diversions, exclusive of water required for domestic use or the service of locks in navigation canals, be limited on the Canadian side to 36,000 cubic feet per second, and on the United States side to 18,500 cubic feet per second (and in addition thereto, a diversion for sanitary purposes not to exceed 10,000 cubic feet per second, be authorized for the Chicago drainage canal), and that a treaty or legislation be had limiting these diversions to the...
Página 9 - ... The following order of precedence shall be observed among the various uses enumerated hereinafter for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which tends materially to conflict with or restrain any other use which is given preference over it in this order of precedence: (1) Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes; (2) Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation; (3) Uses for power and for irrigation purposes.