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Undamming Rivers Can Offer a New Source for Clean Energy | Yale Environment 360

Conowingo Dam.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Many hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to rivers and fish. Why not remove these aging structures and build solar farms in the drained reservoirs?

SJVN Drops Plans to Construct Tunnel in Luhri Hydro Project | The Hindu

Thursday, August 6, 2015
Bowing to the pressure from farmers and environmental NGOs, a hydro developer has dropped the construction of a controversial tunnel in India.

Fish Shortage Stirs Ethnic Rivalry | Khmer Times

A Cham fishing community on the Tonle Sap River.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
For years, environmental organizations have warned of the devastating effects of dam building and sand dredging on the Mekong. Now the fish shortages are here -- and they're stirring ethnic conflicts.

Sarawak Natives State Conditions for Lifting Baram Dam Blockade | The Malaysian Insider

The blockade at the site of the proposed Baram dam.
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Ethnic tribespeople fighting the proposed Baram hydroelectric dam want the Sarawak government to meet a few conditions before they lift their year-long blockade of the proposed dam site.

Obama Urged to Talk On Gibe 3 Dam | The East African

A dam in Ethiopia.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Environmental activists urged President Barack Obama to raise concerns about an Ethiopian dam's impact on Kenya when he met with government officials in Addis Ababa this week.

Last Rites for the Jade Sea? | National Geographic

Tribesmen in Lake Turkana
Monday, July 27, 2015
Lake Turkana sustains the tribes in Kenya’s remote north, but projects upstream threaten its lifeblood.

The Impending Dam Disaster in the Himalayas | Scientific American

Sichuan earthquake
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Two of the world's most populous nations - China and India - are building hundreds of dams in a violently active geologic zone.

Is China’s hydroelectric revolution as green as it sounds? | Engineering and Technology Magazine

Wednesday, July 15, 2015
China is pursuing an ambitious program of hydroelectric expansion, with a series of mega-dams on the way even bigger than the controversial Three Gorges project. But are there signs that this kind of hydropower might actually make climate change even worse?

Salween Dams Threaten to Drown Refugees Hopes of Returning Home | The Bangkok Post

Shan soldiers patrol the Salween River as plans for a series of hydropower projects threaten to swallow up thousands of acres of land, jeopardizing the return of ethnic minority refugees.
Friday, July 10, 2015
The Thai military government and its Myanmar counterpart have signed a memorandum of understanding on energy, with an eye to expanding Thailand’s import of electricity from Myanmar, by up to 10,000 megawatts. The agreement promotes overseas investment by Thai state-owned and public companies in numerous coal and hydropower projects in Myanmar, including the Hat Gyi, Ywathit, and Mong Ton dams on the Salween River.

Brazilian Indigenous Leader to Address UN Council in Effort to Stop Dam | The Guardian

Members of the Munduruku indigenous tribe dance during a “Caravan of Resistance’” protest in São Luiz do Tapajós against plans to build a hydroelectric dam on 27 November 2014.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
The Brazilian government has violated its own constitution and international law by developing hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon, according to an indigenous leader due to address the 29th United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday afternoon.

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