Month: <span>May 2017</span>

The RwB Appeal to Hanergy Co. to Cancel Hydropower Projects Threatening Free-flowing Rivers of China, Russia and Myanmar!

  A river worshiping ceremony in Mawlamyine, on the Salween delta in Mon State. Source: International Rivers @ Flickr To: Li Hejun, President, Hanergy Holdings Co. Hanergy Holdings Co. Board of Directors, Hong Kong Stock Exchange Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Re: Hanergy Hydropower Projects Dear Mr.Li and Hanergy Board …

China excludes from the "Silk Road Economic Belt" a hydropower plant in the Lake Baikal Basin ?

Local Buryat community thanks China Exim Bank for abstaining from harmful hydropower project, but the Government of Mongolia and construction companies still hope to revive it. In November 2015, the Egiin-Gol Hydropower Plant was named among the five largest projects of the Sino-Mongolian cooperation within the framework of the Silk …

Environmentalists warn Shenzhen Stock Exchange about risks of the Amazar “Belt and Road” project in Russia

  Environmental Paper Network and 7 other organizations on May 10 have sent a letter expressing our concerns to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and other interested parties who need to be aware of the risks of investment in the Amazar Pulp and Saw Mill Project in Zabaikalsky Province of Russia. …

“Save the Blue Heart of Europe” Campaign Scores Important Victory at Viosa River

The Rivers without Boundaries Coalition congratulates Balkan friends with an important victory!!! Viosa River © Gernot Kunz Big win for the protection of Europe’s last big wild river, the Vjosa in Albania! On May 2, the judges of the Albanian Administrative Court in Tirana announced their decision against the construction …