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Using Offsets to Push Climate Bill

Sunday, June 14, 2009
Originally published in the Albany Times Union WASHINGTON -- When Connie Patterson began expanding her Auburn. Cayuga County, dairy farm in the 1990s -- growing from 100 cows to a 950-cow operation -- she went from spreading manure over fields to housing the liquid waste in lagoons. But that, she soon discovered, was a pretty smelly situation. "It just sits in there, and it cooks, and it has a horrible odor," Patterson said. "It's like nothing you can believe." Patterson spent years searching for a solution, and ultimately installed an anaerobic digester to remove methane from the manure lagoo

Brazil Struggles with Amazon Balancing Act

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Brazil has been attempting to balance the rights of the indigenous people of the Amazon with the demands of economic development. But disputes still remain, and there are fears that they could spill over into violence in a similar manner to land conflicts in neighbouring Peru. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao Paulo.

Home Depot en medio de una controversia en la Patagonia chilena

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Publicado en Atlanta Latino, Bilingual Newspaper A cinco años de haber firmado un acuerdo con proveedores de madera y organizaciones ambientales para proteger el bosque nativo chileno, Home Depot está siendo acusado de apoyar un proyecto que propone construir cinco represas en la Patagonia del país sudamericano que arruinarían cuencas hídricas, inundarían escasos bosques en peligro y destruirían el estilo de vida autóctono del lugar. La imputación es hecha por el grupo ambiental International Rivers, cuyos integrantes protestaron contra la multinacional estadounidense el jueves 28 de

Carbon Trading's Inconvenient Truth

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle In the face of unwavering Republican opposition, Californian Rep. Henry Waxman last week successfully guided a mammoth energy and climate bill through the House Energy and Commerce Committee that he chairs. This should be a thrilling moment for environmentalists. Nineteen years after the U.N.'s panel of scientists first reached consensus on the threat posed by global warming, the United States, for long the world's biggest polluter, is finally poised to take action. But unfortunately, the feeling among many climate-change campaigners is more

Big Dam, Bigger Problems

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Originally published in Los Angeles Times Right now, the Obama administration is participating in its first annual meeting of the African Development Bank, which is mandated to fund critical infrastructure for poor African nations. On the agenda is financing one of the biggest projects ever considered by the bank, the $2.1-billion Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia.The U.S. government has contributed more than $400 million in the last three years to the African Development Bank. It is also Ethiopia's largest aid donor, giving upward of $450 million a year for everything from food and water to mi

Mega-dam to Test AfDB’s Will

Fishermen in Lake Turkana: Filling the dam’s reservoir will drain Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Originally posted in Business Daily Africa Now gathered in Senegal, the African Development Bank hopes to emerge from its annual meeting as the premier financial institution leading the continent out of two major crises: the global financial crisis and the chronic underdevelopment of Africa’s infrastructure.Fishermen in Lake Turkana: Filling the dam’s reservoir will drain Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake. But the Bank’s consideration of Gibe III Dam in Ethiopia will test whether the Bank is really ready to lead Africa on the road to progress. Bank support for the € 1.5

Gibe 3: Big Dam, Bigger Problems

Los Angeles Times  Opinion Right now, the Obama administration is participating in its first annual meeting of the African Development Bank, which is mandated to fund critical infrastructure for poor African nations. On the agenda is financing one of the biggest projects ever considered by the bank, the $2.1-billion Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia. The U.S. government has contributed more than $400 million in the last three years to the African Development Bank. It is also Ethiopia's largest aid donor, giving upward of $450 million a year for everything from food and water to milit

Will Dams on Amazon Tributary Wreak Global Havoc?

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Originally published with video in the McClatchy Newspaper. VOLTA GRANDE, Brazil — The Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, runs wide and swift this time of year. Its turquoise waters are home to some 600 species of fish, including several not found anywhere else on the planet. A thick emerald canopy of trees hugs its banks, except in places where man has carved out pastures for cattle.Now man, in the form of the Brazilian state power company, wants to harness a section of the Xingu by building the world's third-biggest dam.Called the Belo Monte, the dam would drown 200 square m

The Dam that Divides Ethiopians

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Visit BBC News for this story's multi-media coverageListen to Ethiopia: Troubles Downstream on BBC's Crossing ContinentsDeep in the gorge country that falls off the Ethiopian plateau, workers in boots and hard hats are hammering, drilling, blasting and digging their way into the mountainside for the foundations of the vast wall that will, when finished, create the second largest hydroelectricity dam in sub-Saharan Africa.Teams of workers are blasting out the "keyhole" - the slot in the side of the valley that will hold the dam wall in place.Others are finishing the concrete lining to the last

Hydropower Projects Continue to Generate Concern in South Asia

Sunday, March 15, 2009
Originally published in VOA News By Steve HermanNew Delhi Asia is grappling with how to balance its burgeoning demand for energy against protection of the environment and society. The conflict is apparent in some of the region's most ambitious infrastructure projects, which involve building dams, changing courses of rivers and erecting transmission lines to bring electricity to energy, deprived homes and businesses.An ethnic group from the border region of India and Burma, known as Kukis, marches to protest construction of the Tamanthi Dam in Burma.By Indian standards their protest is small an

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