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From December 2008 World Rivers Review: Special Focus on River Restoration We talked with some of the world's best experts and advocates for dam removal to find out what lessons they have learned on this complex topic, and what hopes they have for reviving the world's dammed rivers. Below are their answers to a few questions about what it takes to create a successful dam decommissioning campaign. 1. When approaching a dam removal project, what is the first thing you have to know, the first step, the first thing you would tackle? Helen Sarakinos, whose group, the River Allian

December 2008 World Rivers Review: Special Focus on River Restoration The financial crisis is sending shock waves through the global economy. Stock markets are plunging around the world. Governments are bailing out banks and other companies at a staggering pace. Many people are losing their jobs, houses, and retirement accounts. The free enterprise system has lost its luster. Global power is shifting to China and other cash-rich countries which are now expected to bail out Western banks and companies. Even while the financial crisis has absorbed our attention, the world's ecosy

Chinese hydropower developers and financiers have figured prominently in the renewed push for hydro development in the Mekong Region. This feature article published in the journal Watershed introduces the new hydropower proponents, describes the regional context that has seen warming relations between Chinese and the Mekong Region’s political and business elites, and discusses the implications of China’s growing role. Download the full article or the text-only version. Download the full edition of Watershed journal.

In: Cultural Survival. The lives of indigenous Ngobe indigenous people have drastically changed as they are being forcibly relocated to give way to Chan 75 dam by AES in partnership with the Panamanian government. Isabel Becker is a tiny but tough Ngobe woman from the village of Charco la Pava in the Changuinola River valley in western Panama. She's lived there all her life. At the age of 59, she has nine children and a multitude of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Isabel never had the opportunity to learn to read or write, and she speaks only her native Ngobe language. Until

The Ngöbe people of Panama are facing imminent destruction of their homeland as a result of Chan 75 hydroelectric dam.Cultural Survival reports on the current situation. As we reported in the last issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly, the Ngöbe people of Panama are facing imminent destruction of their homeland as a result of a hydroelectric dam. Since then, things in Panama have become significantly more desperate. AES, the American company that is building the dam, began dynamiting Isabel Becker's land after pressuring her to sign it over to them on a document she couldn't read.

Por David Biller, Business News Americas El proyecto hidroeléctrico de 900MW La Parota de la eléctrica federal mexicana CFE se ha visto retrasado por años debido a la oposición de la comunidad local, dijo a BNamericas el subdirector de programación de la compañía, Florencio Aboytes. Según el ejecutivo, CFE está revisando el proyecto principalmente a causa de la oposición de los lugareños y se espera que el gobierno del estado de Guerrero tome parte como mediador en el conflicto. Al preguntársele cuándo podría desarrollarse el proyecto, Aboytes indicó: "

La notte scorsa ho ricevuto una telefonata da Henry Paulson. Il ministro del Tesoro mi chiedeva di mandargli subito del denaro per salvare le imprudenti banche di Wall Street. Per la nostra famiglia, mi ha spiegato Paulson, il conto ammonterà a 7mila dollari. Se vogliamo pagare per tutti i membri di International Rivers con cittadinanza americana, arriveremmo a 1,2 milioni di dollari. Tale contributo permetterà di pagare per un mese il salario e i bonus di Jamie Dixon, l’amministratore delegato della JP Morgan Chase, e far sì che le banche possano tirare un po’ il fiato, scaricando sui