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The Amazon: Dirty Dams, Dirty Politics and the Myth of Clean Energy
From June 2012 World Rivers Review A growing trend in Brazil and other countries is to portray large hydroelectric dams...
Carbon Offsets Misused by Hydropower Industry
From June 2012 World Rivers Review Brazilian Megadams Make Mockery of Clean Development Mechanism The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is...
Our Rivers Feed Millions
From June 2012 World Rivers Review River systems support the Earth’s highest biological diversity – and the most intense human...
Amazon Forum to Focus on Human Cost of Green Economy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 5, 2012 The Human Cost of a “Green Economy” Affected peoples of Belo Monte and other mega-dams...
Highlighting Rivers at Rio+20
In the preparations for the twentieth anniversary conference of the Earth Summit (aka Rio+20), the word “Rio” flows from everyone’s...
Protect Patagonia Now
Chilean officials granted environmental approval for the HidroAysén project in May 2011, which would build five mega-dams on two of...
Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: A Conflict in the Amazon
This article and video originally appeared on the Yale Environment 360 website As the United Nations’ Rio+20 conference on sustainable...
Colbún Suspends HidroAysén Transmission Line
Well, now we know why HidroAysen has repeatedly pushed back the date for turning in the EIA for its transmission...
Comments on the Jirau Dam (Brazil)
Comments on the Jirau Hydropower Project Submitted to Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd. We are writing to express our concerns...
Jorge Molina Comments on Jirau Dam (Brazil)
Comments on the Jirau Hydropower Project: Transboundary Impacts Submitted to Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd. I am writing to express...