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Friday, July 29, 2011
Originally published in The Saigon Times CAN THO - Local experts yesterday raised their concerns about the construction of 12 hydropower dams along the Mekong River's lower mainstream...
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Originally published by Thomson Reuters SHANGHAI, July 29 (Reuters) - China's securities regulator on Friday approved a plan by Sinohydro Group Ltd, the builder of the Three Gorges dam, to...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
China Power Investment Corporation is forging ahead with its controversial Myitsone dam in northern Burma despite its own assessment calling for the project to be cancelled. The 945-page...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A coalition of Myanmar dissident groups called on China to halt a series of dam projects it is building in the resource-rich Southeast Asian nation, the latest sign of rising hostility...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Originally published in The Financial Times A fiercely contested project to dam two pristine rivers in southern Chile and build five hydroelectric power plants in the glacier-carved...
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Originally published in The Financial Times Aaron Sanger grimaced at the sight of the tumultuous Río Quiroz, a 150ft-wide gush of glacial meltwater surging off Patagonia's Southern Ice...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Originally published in Reuters Laos is forging ahead with construction of a controversial $3.5 billion hydropower dam in breach of an agreement to suspend the project pending approval by...
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Originally Published in the Phnom Penh Post China counts half of all the world's large dams within its borders. During the last 10 years, Chinese companies have also successfully...
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Monday, June 20, 2011
This article was originally published in The South China Morning Post Some workers on Malaysia's biggest dam, due to open next year, claim concrete is being diluted with water - and passing...
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Originally published on Recharge News The hydropower industry has unveiled new guidelines designed to reduce the impact of major dam projects on environmentally sensitive regions.The...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Voice of America interviews Peter Bosshard and Katy Yan about Three Gorges Dam and the lessons that can be drawn for the Nu River. In Chinese.
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Ahead of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Unofficial translation of an opinion piece from a senior China EXIM bank official. Originally published at http://opinion.huanqiu.com/roll/2011-01/1415487.html Abstract: Most Chinese...
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Policy Tools to Protect Free-Flowing RiversPatagonia’s free-flowing Baker River is under threat by dams. © Jorge Uzon ree-flowing rivers have become so rare that they would be classified...
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Calfornia’s dammed Trinity River is flowing more naturally this year, thanks to an agreement to restore environmental flows. © Conservation Lands Foundation river's flow is its...
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ndia is on a large-dam building spree, with more than 5,100 large dams already blocking almost all of its important rivers, and more to come. These dams have had a profound negative impact...
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Yurok elder Jimmy Jones was born after the Klamath dams changed his tribe’s way of life. His grandchildren will hopefully see the removal of the dams and the restoration of salmon. © Bob...
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ivers are often called the planet’s circulatory system. Like our body’s circulation system, the planetary one doesn’t work very well when it’s clogged up. Dams hold back not just water...
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The images in this narrative describe the aftermath of one of the largest environmental disasters man has perpetrated – the death of the Aral Sea, once the planet's fourth largest lake.Lost...
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Business Day AFTER he visited the country in 2001, Ronnie Kasrils exclaimed: "China today is a construction engineer’s dream…. Nowhere is this better symbolised than at the Three Gorges Dam...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
AES, Dangote Industries, Others Prequalified for Power PrivatisationsFresh facts have emerged over the identity of some of the 525 firms that were prequalified last week by the Bureau of...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Originally published in South China Morning Post Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (SEHK: 1398) (ICBC) has remained tight-lipped about accusations from non-governmental organizations...
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How should we use our rivers? Developing countries around the world have often looked to the past when answering this question.This formula - one that assumes that human interventions into...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Originally Published in CBS News It's a story that truly spans the globe: Activists from all over the world, including San Francisco, are trying to stop the construction of a dam in...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Originally published in chinadialogue The Nu River valley in Yunnan province – known as China's Grand Canyon – sits at the epicentre of China's seismic zone. This dramatic landscape...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Originally published in The Asia-Pacific Journal While the Three Gorges Dam was under construction, it was celebrated by China's leaders as a symbol of economic and technological...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
An environmental review commission in the Aysén region of southern Chile has made a potentially disastrous decision, voting to approve the construction of five hydroelectric dams, two on...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Originally published in The Guardian Risk of geological disaster, state cabinet admits, as project is linked to soil erosion, quakes, drought and social upheaval The Three Gorges dam,...
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal BEIJING—Critics of China's Three Gorges dam said an unusual Chinese government statement this week acknowledging serious flaws in the...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Activists fear ecological haven will be destroyed but government says project is vital for economic growth Chilean authorities have approved a £1.8bn plan to dam two rivers in Patagonia...
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