Year: <span>2014</span>

Sentence for Mongolian Goldman Prize Winner and other green activists reduced by 65 years

  Goldman Environmental Prize winner Munkhbayar, who in January 2014 was sentenced to almost 22 years in jail, as well as four of his friends from the Gal Undesten Movement, won significant reductions in their sentences in the City Court of Ulan Baatar.  They were protecting the law prohibiting mining …

World Bank is an unlikely champion for solving water crisis

In an article on “Water-Energy Nexus Reaches Crisis Level in Asia” Parameswaran Ponnudurai very clearly points to most disturbing tendencies in hydropower and thermal energy sectors both severely threatening water resources and freshwater ecosystems of Asia. However, unlike the author RwB doubts that traditional institutions like the World Bank are …

NGOs Meet with the China Three Gorges Corporation on Russian Projects

The International Rivers’ China Program and expert from Rivers without Boundaries Coalition (RwB) on March 20, 2014 met with China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) and discussed interaction with NGOs, standards for overseas investment and possible involvement of the CTGC in the Amur river basin. All relevant departments of CTGC were …

Oxford Scientists came to the conclusion that large dams are uneconomic

Apparently Boguchansky Hydro on Angara River that was completed with making such colossal debts that the electricity price regulation in Russia was changed  to allow owners (Rushydro and Rusal) to avoid financial catastrophe is not an exception but follows common rule. Large dams do not make sense in modern economic …