Rivers without Boundaries

Buriat NGO and RwB urge Kuwait Fund not to harm Lake Baikal

  Today, on the March 14, the Day of Action for Living rivers Against Large Dams  the Buryat Regional Organization for Lake Baikal"(BROB) and the Rivers without Boundaries International Coalition addressed His Excellency Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait, who …

Acting Governor of Zabaikalsky Kray disapproves Hydropower Plant on Shilka River

  As the International Day of Action for Rivers approaching  in Russia  we see  unusually constructive cooperation of  local communities, NGOs, provincial governments and agencies.  Most amazing that high officials set the tone, although most of them are completely unaware of this environmental date. On March 12th, local media Bag …

Rivers without Boundaries Warns China Export-Import Bank against Risky Loan to Russian Hydropower Company

Contacts:Eugene Simonov ( ??), International Coordinator, Rivers without Boundaries: tel.+86-15041144074simonov@riverswithoutboundaries.org, Aliona Zenkova, Financial advocacy coordinator, Rivers without Boundaries: tel.+86-13488687464alinazenkova@gmail.com, RwB web-site: www.transrivers.org INFORMATION RELEASE March 14, 2013 Rivers without Boundaries Warns China Export-Import Bank against Risky Loan to Russian Hydropower Company On this International Day of Action for Rivers and …

RUSHYDRO named in fraud

According to www.upi.com and many other media the Russian Interior Ministry said that as much as $33.2 million in state funds were embezzled from hydropower company RusHydro. The Interior Ministry said RusHydro’s plant developer Gidrostroy hired companies that had little staff or equipment. It was also said to have signed …

Water Convention Goes Global

  On February 6, 2013 UNECE Water Convention became officially open to all UN members. This article summarizes our current knowledge of the Convention’s strong and soft sides and emerging challenges for world-wide river-protection civil movement that may or may not help this Convention work globally towards river ecosystem conservation. …

World Bank and renewable energy: the Shuren Dam on Selenge River opens the list of problems

The Bretton Woods Project published a review that explains that new World Bank report warns about the impacts of climate change, but concerns have been raised about its own track record. While the Bank has increased its renewable energy share, its continued funding of fossil fuels and focus on large …