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World Bank Insists on Inga 3, Skips “Lessons Learned” from Past Big Dams
Map of the dams planned as part of the Grand Inga schemePhoto Credit: BBC The Board of the World Bank’s...
The World Bank’s Inga 3 Project Goes From Bad to Worse
DRC: no energy for the poorGreenpeace/Kate Davison The Inga 3 Dam on the Congo River, which has incited the dreams...
PR – World Bank Hands Inga 3 Dam Over to Private Sector
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berkeley, USA: International Rivers has learned that the World Bank has abruptly decided to develop the Inga...
A Time-Out on the World Bank’s Biggest Dam Project
Under mounting pressure from local and international NGOs, the World Bank has postponed a decision on the Inga 3 Project...
PR – World Bank Indefinitely Postpones Inga 3 Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pretoria, South Africa: The World Bank has just made a surprise decision to indefinitely postpone the board...
Letter from DRC NGOs to the World Bank on Inga 3
In January 2014, a coalition of Congolese NGOs called on the World Bank’s Board of Directors to reconsider the Inga...
Congo River: Death by a Thousand Cuts?
A briefing paper by International Rivers finds that the Environmental Impact Assessment of the World Bank’s proposed Inga 3 Dam ...
Civil Society Letter Calling on US Not to Support Inga 3 Dam
In December 2013, the USAID administrator announced that the US government was considering financial support for the Inga 3 Dam...
Corruption and Infrastructure Megaprojects in the DR Congo
Report details corruption in DRC, potential for marring Inga dam developments The Inga II DamPhoto by Rudo Sanyanga The DRC...
World’s Biggest Dam Won’t Solve World’s Biggest Energy Gap
Is World Bank Throwing Good Money After Bad? From September 2013 World Rivers Review There is a sad irony in...