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Tuesday, May 9, 2006
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
(Published by Development Today)
The Nile Basin Initiative, backed by Sweden, Denmark and Norway, proposes numerous large dams along the Nile. While there are sure to be beneficiaries...
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Monday, February 1, 1999
Over the millennia, life in Southern Africa was measured by the ebb and flow of the great Zambezi River. Every year the river’s waters spilled over into its vast floodplains, irrigating...
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Conferencia de ImprensaO Governo de Moçambique anunciou que na ultima sexta–feira, 21 de Abril, que o Banco de Importação – Exportação da China concordou em financiar a construção da...
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Friday, July 5, 2002
Only six of 35 contracts between the government and independent power
producers (IPPs) passed muster in a review by an inter-agency committee
looking into allegedly scurrilous deals with...
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The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River is one of Africa’s largest dams, and one with a particularly sorry legacy for those forced to make way for it. Just miles from the huge reservoir in the...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2000
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a massive, multi–dam scheme built to divert water from Lesotho’s Maloti Mountains to South Africa’s industrial Gauteng Province. The first...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
BANGKOK, Jul 17 (IPS) - A sharp difference of opinion between the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) and the United Nations Environment programme (UNEP) has surfaced over a flagship venture of...
In the Media
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Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Article from The Nambian
The controversial planned Epupa Hydropower scheme has given way to the development of the Kudu gas–to–power project as Namibia pushes for electricity...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
On October 12, the World Bank’s executive board approved a $45 million loan from their private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), for a controversial hydropower...
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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Des plans grandioses sont en cours de conception pour développer le plus grand projet d’énergie hydraulique dans l’une des régions d’Afrique les plus corrompues et...
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Friday, April 1, 2005
World Rivers Review, V20 N2, p. 6-7 Grandiose plans are being made to develop the world’s largest hydropower project in one of the most politically volatile and corruption–...
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Sunday, February 1, 1998
World Rivers Review: Volume 13, Number 1
This past September, an official think-tank
called Le Groupe de Réflexion Stratég ique (Strategic
Planning Group) publicly released a report...
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Sunday, June 1, 2003
With a
generating capacity of more than 40,000 MW, South Africa–based Eskom is
Africa’s largest energy utility, and ranks as one of the top five energy
utilities in the world. Eskom is...
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Wednesday, October 1, 1997
World Rivers Review: Volume 12, Number 5
The Manantali Dam in Africa's Senegal
River Valley is a "poster child" of bad dams. When
it
was built in the 1980s, it put an...
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Large hydro dams do not "lift all boats"—in fact, they increase the gap between energy haves and have-nots. Electricity passes over a village resettled for Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe Karin...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Four years ago, the 12 commissioners of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) concluded their three–year effort to analyze the world’s record of dams and development by stating: "We have told...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Thank you. I would like to thank NAPE for inviting me to attend today’s meeting. I work with International Rivers, and was invited today to observe this gathering here in Uganda....
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After
months of preparing to come to Ghana to continue with a research on
hippopotamus and crocodile populations at the Bui National Park, where a
400 Mw hydropower Dam is to be...
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Thursday, May 10, 2001
The Lower Kihansi hydropower project on the Kihansi River in Tanzania is causing significant environmental damage, a newly released World Bank report reveals. The Bank's Environmental...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006
A diversion tunnel for recently built dam in Brazil failed during the last week in June, causing an uncontrolled release of the water from the huge upstream reservoir. The failure caused no...
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Monday, March 1, 1999
1. The projectThe Manantali project consists of the Manantali dam on the Bafing river, a tributary of the Senegal river, a 200 MW power station and a network of 1300 km of transmission...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2000
Concerning
About 30,000 people in the
Brong–Ahafo–Region, Northwest Ghana, are threatened with losing their land
and the right to feed oneself due to the construction of the...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2000
I was given the opportunity to take part in the work of the World Commission on Dams, by contributing to the Thematic Review on Social Impacts of Large Dams. In speaking of dams in Africa,...
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Wednesday, December 22, 1999
BackgroundSondu Miriu River, one of the six major rivers in the Lake Victoria basin, drains a total area of 3470 kilometre2 in the Western part of Kenya. The river originates from the...
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