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Should We Worry About Xayaburi Dam Safety?
The Lao government has been heavily criticized for beginning construction on the Xayaburi Dam without first studying the project’s impacts...
Esteves Backs $14 Billion Amazon Dam Itau Shuns
Billionaire Andre Esteves’ Banco BTG Pactual SA is helping fund construction of a 29 billion-real ($14 billion) dam opposed by...
Citizen Science Supports a Healthy Mekong
From December 2012 World Rivers Review Mapping the Mekong: In 2011, villagers mapped fishing grouds, river-bank farmland, river morphology and...
BNA: Loan Granted for Amazon Hydro Project, Third Largest in World; Protests Lodged
Originally published in Bloomberg BNA RIO DE JANEIRO – The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has approved a 22.5 billion real...
Letter from Cobija – VI Panamazonian Social Forum
Cobija, Bolivia We are the people of all peoples. We are the men from the forest and the women from...
Chixoy Communities One Step Closer to Reparations Deal
27 years after the massacre, the Rio Negro community came together to commemorate the tragedy and mourn the victims at...
Letter to the ADB Expressing Concern about Sekong and Sekaman Dams
Oct. 24, 2012 Anthony Jude, Director Energy Division, Southeast Asia Department Asian Development Bank 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City 1550,...
Communities Downstream from Nam Theun 2 Still Need Support
November 30th, 2012 Ingo Wiederhofer, Senior Operations Officer Sustainable Development Dept., East Asia & Pacific Region World Bank Lao PDR...
BNDES Approves Unprecedented Loan for Controversial Amazon Dam
Financing ignores violations of human rights and environmental safeguards, tarnishing bank’s reputation Brasilia, Brazil: This Monday, the Brazilian National Development Bank...
Spreadsheet of Major Dams in China
Xiaowan Dam on the Lancang River This excel spreadsheet of major dams on the Nu, Lancang, Yangtze, and Yarlung Tsangpo mainstream is based on...