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Tag: <span>River Activist</span>

Tag: River Activist

Featured, Solidarity

๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ข๐š๐ง๐  ๐”๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐š๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ก, ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š

We publish this in solidarity with people of China, India and Bangladesh, who are threatened by the โ€œdam warโ€ on Brahmaputra River started by the governments of China and India . We saw dams built under excuses of economic growth, local development and climate salvation. The cascade on Brahmaputra is …

Central Asia, Featured, Paris worth a dam?, World Heritage Convention

World Bankโ€™s financing role in the Rogun Hydropower Plant facing scrutiny

Eurasianet. Apr 11, 2025 An aerial view of construction works at Rogun. (Photo: president.tj) The World Bank is under fire over allegations of impropriety in financing the Rogun Dam project in Tajikistan. Specifically, bank officials are facing accusations that they failed to comply with procedures to account for potential environmental …

Central Asia, Essential Publications, Featured, Solidarity

How to interact with development banks lending to hydropower projects?

Bankwatch and Rivers without Boundaries have produced a Toolkit aimed primarily at civil society organizations working to challenge the construction of dams and other unsustainable water infrastructure. It focuses on Central Asia, a region where numerous highly problematic dam projects are still planned. As the region lacks an established culture …

Featured, Ob, Paris worth a dam?, Solidarity

Krapivinskaya Hydro – a False Alternative to Coal

As Russian Government is dreaming to restore Soviet Union it seeks to revive most bizarre and harmful infrastructure projects conceived and even partly built during the XX century. Some of those are large dams on still free flowing rivers. Even now, when civil freedoms are suppressed and punished, local activists …

Baikal Lake, Solidarity, World Heritage Convention

Witch Hunt at Lake Baikal Targets Local Environmental Activists

Officials in Russiaโ€™s Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia have publicly denounced activists seeking to block a controversial bill that would ease logging restrictions along the shores of Lake Baikal. In an open letter, 34 regional officials, including six mayors, accused environmental activists of waging a cyberbullying campaign and inciting โ€œinter-social …

Solidarity

Bristol Bay Saved from Mining!

Great news for rivers arrived today! The epic battle for Bristol Bay is, likely, over. And Salmon People won it! RwB congratulates all friends who fought this decades-long battle! The Biden administration banned the dumping of mining waste near Bristol Bay, Alaska, issuing a decree that thwarts longstanding plans to …