Tag: <span>Basin management</span>

"Hi, WB President Jim Kim, STOP DAMS, for we do not have other planet to be resettled to!"

Despite overwhelming evidence, that large dams are no solution to energy and climate and damage severely our environment, the WB top official stubbornly support suicidal course his institution is taking. He bluntly ignores the fact that by supporting large dams everywhere from Mongolia to Africa his institution is destroying most …

Greenpeace: China funded Egiin Gol Hydro – the last drop for the Lake Baikal

The Minister of natural resources of remote Buryatia Republic Mr. Yury Safyanov came to Moscow to seek response to extreme concerns voiced by local villagers living on Baikal lakeshore about Chinese dam building in upstream Mongolia. People of Buryat villages gathered 60days ago in Kabansk and requested from WB, Mongolian …

Would Ecological Civilization take the Silk Road?

  RwB’s International Coordinator Eugene Simonov on March 5 took part  in the 2016 Annual Meeting of Heilongjiang Provincial Association for Northeast Asian Studies/  in Harbin City. Environmental Section of the Meeting gathered  members of the Amur-Okhotsk Consortium from Japan, Mongolia, China and Russia. Dr. Simonov summarized  most important environmental …

Lake Baikal locals appealed to China’s agencies

  To: Dr.Chen Jining, Minister of Environmental Protection of China; CC: Mr. Gao Hucheng, China Ministry of Commerce; Mr. Liu Liange CEO, China EXIM Bank; Mr.Chen Xiaohua, CEO, Gezhouba International Co. Dear Dr. Chen: We are addressing You as participants of public hearings on ESIA for "Shuren HPP" Project taking …

A New Wildlife Refuge established on the Shilka and Upper Amur River

It finally happened…. One more battle for Nature has been won by our joint efforts! The Governor of Zabaikalsky Province signed the decree to establish Verkhneamursky (Upper Amur) Wildlife Refuge in Mogochinsky district of Zabaikalsky Province on the area of 239,639 hectares. It took several years to prepare feasibility assessment …

Strategic Assessment for the Silk Road

“Pure Growth Vitamins” from BRICS Magazine Huge cross-border projects that will be financed by new development institutes threaten to create dangerous differences in environmental standards ‘race to the bottom’. However, the problem can still be solved. Three separatet disasters in the Russian Far East in 2005, 2007, and 2010 that …