Hydropower boom in Latin America fueled by corrupt practices of the Odebrecht and other major construction corporations and supported by loans from China, Germany and multilateral banks continues to displace and threaten local populations. Hidroituango, Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam project, which promises to produce 13% of country’s electricity by 2019, …
In Gornozavodsk (Japanese: 内幌町, Naihoro) town on Sakhalin Island, on May 14, 2018 a long anticipated coal-mud flood consumed several buildings and farms and now creeps towards the highway and nearby rivers. Coal miners are routinely allowed to store waste in dangerous locations, displace local residents, pollute salmon-spawning rivers and …
On May 10 a dam supplying water for export-oriented commercial rose-growing agricultural farm burst in Kenya causing death and devastation. According to dam managers it served for decades without causing concern, but last week caused a major disaster triggered by heavy rains. The Patel dam was one of a number …
Rt Hon. Theresa May MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London, SW1A 2AA April 28, 2018 The Ilisu Dam and Turkey’s use of water as a weapon of war Dear Prime Minister, We write as civil society organizations to draw your attention to the imminent impoundment by Turkey of the …
An article published by Chinese scientists shows changes in fish species assemblages along Yellow river during last 50 years due to dams diversions and invasive species .. From the beginning of the 1960s in China, 32 large and medium-size dams in the main stem and hundreds of smaller ones in …
In 2016-17 The RwB Coalition and allies have been trying to get response from Chinese banks about environmental and social safeguards used when lending to Yamal LNG Project. We still have no response. This article in China Dialogue by Jenny Johnson contains new details on this growing threat to …
