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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...
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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...
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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...
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Protect Patagonia Now

Chilean officials granted environmental approval for the HidroAysén project in May 2011, which would build five mega-dams on two of...
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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...
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Sinohydro Projects Overseas

This spreadsheet, downloadable below, contains 203 dam projects the Sinohydro Corporation is involved in outside of China. For some of...
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Tropical Dams Dispel Clean Energy Myth

Dead trees in the Petit Saut reservoir, French Guiana Tropical reservoirs are a “methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the...
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The Salween River Basin

Dam Cascades Threaten Biological and Cultural Diversity From its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the...
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The Salween River Basin Fact Sheet

Dam Cascades Threaten Biological and Cultural Diversity From its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the...
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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...