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Dam the Puelo River Basin? No Way!
Puelo River BasinAndres Amengual I’ve just returned from visiting the Tagua Tagua Park, which borders the beautiful blue-green waters of...
Zombie Dams: Five Projects That Just. Won’t. Die.
zom·bie dam /ˈzämbē dam/ noun 1. A proposed dam project that activists successfully halt before it’s built, only to see...
Chileans Stand to Defend the Maipo River
Yeso River, tributary of the Maipo River.Monti Aguirre From the high, icy glaciers of the Andes Mountains, the waters of...
Chixoy Reparations at Last: Checks Are In
Teodora Chen, massacre survivor, receives the first check for reparations.La Prensa Libre A ceremony to honor Mother Earth was the...
Bad Student: Has the World Bank Learned Its Lessons?
Last week, I attended the World Bank meetings in Lima to highlight the World Bank’s checkered history with financing large...
The Many Faults of El Quimbo Dam
Protesting El Quimbo DamPolinizacionesIn June of this year, dam builders began filling the reservoir behind El Quimbo Dam in Colombia....
How Hydroelectric Power May Undermine Brazil's Pledge to Slash Greenhouse Gases | Vice News
Brazil’s new pledge to slash its national carbon footprint by 43% by 2030 sounds like exactly the kind of aggressive...
Does the World Bank's "Success Story" on Dams Still Hold Water?
The World Bank will hold its Annual Meetings next week in Lima, in the face of stiff competition from new...
Press Release | Brazilian Indigenous Resistance Movement Wins Prominent UN Environmental Prize
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2015 2015 Equator Prize recognizes Munduruku efforts to defend the Tapajós River from new...
Brazil Threatens to Withhold Licence for Belo Monte Dam Over Mitigation Worries | The Guardian
Indigenous Munduruku men survey the quarry site for the Belo Monte dam.Taylor Weidman/LightRocket via Getty Images This article first appeared...