International Rivers in the Media
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Opinion piece by Dr. Chris Greacen published in the Bangkok Post that highlights shortcomings in Thailand's energy planning process and calls for reform. Ten days ago the Ministry of Energy...
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Thursday, February 1, 2007
Claiming the Mekong's water resources hold considerable potential for development the World Bank and Asian Development Bank are promoting increased investment in large-scale water...
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Friday, June 1, 2007
This World Rivers Review article discusses the revival of plans to build a cascade of dams on the Mekong River mainstream and the likely implications. While China is midway through the...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
This op-ed first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, July 29, 2007 Floods are the most destructive, most frequent and most costly natural disasters on Earth. And they're...
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Saturday, April 1, 2006
The ADB is promoting the development of a ‘Mekong Power Grid' that, if implemented, would facilitate the construction of numerous hydropower schemes in the Mekong Region. This Bankwatch...
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Saturday, October 1, 2005
The Asian Development Bank has spent millions of dollars over the past 12 years on studies investigating energy options in the Greater Mekong Subregion. All of these studies were heavily...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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En la medida en que los gobiernos van cediendo su lugar y papel a las grandes
empresas trasnacionales nos encontramos con un corrimiento de la confrontación...
In the Media
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Saturday, August 16, 2003
Mugecuo lake, known to local Tibetans as Yeti lake, remains one of China's
few untainted ecological treasures. Situated in the Ganzi Tibetan autonomous
prefecture of Sichuan province,...
In the Media
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Thursday, July 11, 2002
Building yet another dam could threaten an ages-old engineering marvel in
Sichuan and a key part of China's heritage. But the project is going ahead
as authorities smother public...
In the Media
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
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Beijing - A series of dams and
hydro projects in southwestern China's
Sichuan province...
In the Media
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
An immense quantity of fish, mostly surubies (catfish), died trapped in the Paraná River and without oxygen on the fish passage ladder at Yacyretá Dam. Oscar Ruiz Diaz, chief technician of...
In the Media
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
Información General: Una inmensa cantidad de peces, en su mayoría surubíes, murieron atrapados en el Río Paraná y sin oxígeno en la escala de transferencia de peces de la central...
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
The article "A Region's Thirst", which was first published in the Sept 2007 edition of Himalmag, discusses the trends in hydropower development in South Asia and describes...
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Friday, June 1, 2007
A remote Amazonian tribe are blockading a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in protest at a series of hydroelectric dams that will destroy their vital fishing grounds. The...
In the Media
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Originally published in Inter Press Service Kongou has apparently been earmarked as the site for a hydro-electric dam to power the Bélinga project, a 3.5 billion dollar initiative to mine...
In the Media
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Brazil has given the initial go-ahead for the construction of two hydro-electric dams to be built on the longest tributary of the Amazon River. The Madeira River projects have divided...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Brasília - O aviso do edital para o leilão de energia da Usina Hidrelétrica de Santo Antônio, que será construída no Rio Madeira, em Rondônia, foi publicado hoje (1º) no Diário Oficial...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The auction of the Santo Antonio hydro power scheme in Brazil has been capped with a power price of R$122/MWh (US$70/MWh) by the country's electricity regulator Aneel. Last week the...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Brasília - A study on the possibilities of building hydroelectric dams on the Xingu River, which flows through Mato Grosso and Pará states, has been delivered to the National Electrical...
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Brasília - Um estudo sobre as possibilidades de aproveitamento elétrico no Rio Xingu, que corta os estados do Mato Grosso e do Pará, foi entregue à Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (...
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Sunday, October 7, 2007
O Governo Brasileiro Avança com o Projeto de Construir Barragens num dos Principais Tributários do Amazonas Versão Original: Brazilian Government Moves to Dam Principal Amazon Tributary...
In the Media
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Around 500 members of the Movement of Dam Affected People (MAB) blocked the access road to the São Salvador Dam worksite in the early hours of 10/09/2007. The dam which is located between...
In the Media
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Around 600 families-members of the Movement of Dam Affected People and Via Campesina, occupied today, 23 of May at 15:30 hours the Tucuruí Dam in Pará. The occupation is part of the...
In the Media
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Sunday, October 7, 2007
"I am going to coordinate the campaign to defend Patagonia from the US where this and the European market will be the focus," explains Aaron Sanger, the lawyer (50) from...
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Friday, November 17, 2006
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...
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Thursday, June 1, 2006
Al concluir un recorrido por los proyectos de construcción de presas en Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero y Chiapas, integrantes del Movimiento
Mexicano de Afectados por las Presas y en Defensa...
In the Media
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Friday, September 28, 2007
After successfully leading an aggressive campaign in the the US against Chilean forestry companies, in 2003 the lawyer-environmentalist Aaron Sanger achieved an unprecedented agreement for...
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Friday, September 28, 2007
After successfully leading an aggressive campaign in the the US against Chilean forestry companies, in 2003 the lawyer-environmentalist Aaron Sanger achieved an unprecedented agreement...
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Thursday, June 1, 2006
Afectados por presas exigen a Fox parar planes
Al
concluir un recorrido por los proyectos de construcción de presas en
Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero y Chiapas, integrantes del Movimiento...
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