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Documenting Belo Monte Dam's Risks: Buyer Beware
The Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex – slated to be built on the Xingu River – poses serious financial, legal and...
Swiss Bankers Clean up Their Act
UBS, one of the world’s biggest banks, has been accused of dirty business for years. The Swiss bank helped the...
Weakening of California Global Warming Law
It is great that California voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 23, the initiative that would not let AB32, the global warming...
Cancun and the Future of Offsetting
In the wee hours of Saturday morning in Cancun at the UN Climate Conference, delegates managed to agree to a...
NGOs Call for a Moratorium on BHP Billiton’s Congo Smelter
International civil society groups have called on BHP Billiton to halt its plans for a US$5 billion aluminum smelter and...
Parting Words from Patrick McCully
This is the last official communication from our previous Executive Director, Patrick McCully. Your tax-deductible gift to International Rivers will...
Call for BHP Billiton to Halt Congo Smelter, Inga 3
Mr. Jac NasserChairmanBHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc RE: Proposed BHP Billiton smelter and Inga 3 in Democratic Republic...
Decision on HidroAysén Pushed Back Until April 2011
The proposals to build dams on the largest rivers in Chile’s Patagonia region are being kept alive by the government...
Lobby Work Pays Off in Cancun
At the international climate negotiations it is easy to get discouraged and wonder if the efforts of civil society can...
Lao Dam Conceals Hidden Costs
Originally published in The Nation Amidst much fanfare, French President Nicholas Sarkozy and senior World Bank (WB) and Asian Development...