Workers have begun to install monitoring equipment that will measure the impact of the huge explosion planned for Tuesday aimed at demolishing the last cofferdam built for the construction of the Three Gorges dam.
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World Bank funding criticised
(October 1, 1999) A US$40M loan to China, to help fund an US$80M water project in Tibet, has been condemned by Tibet Right groups, human rights activists, Tibet’s government in exile and environmental lobby groups.
Fall 1999 Campaign Letter
In 1991, we proposed a way out of the Third World debt crisis. Now it’s happening.
The Theun-Hinboun public-private partnership- part 1 of 3
(October 1, 1999) A 3-part critique of the Asian Development Bank’s model hydropower Venture in Lao PDR.
China’s Three Gorges
(October 1, 1999) China’s biggest construction project since the Great Wall generates controversy at home and abroad.
An engineer-activist who battles megadevelopment
From Time’s special report A New Generation of Leaders, "…highlighting 25 youthful achievers who have already made important marks in their disparate fields–marks just as likely to be recognized abroad as at home. We consider them to be intriguing, illuminating and sometimes provocative representatives of the talent that is being unleashed by change. These are particularly extraordinary individuals…"
In 1991, we proposed a way out of the Third World debt crisis. Now it’s happening.
(September 21, 1999) In 1997, after hearing about Probe International’s campaign to enforce the doctrine of odious debts, a group of South African activists knew they had found the answer to their quest for a just and principled stand against the accomplices to apartheid.
Jubilee 2000 campaign intensifies
(September 17, 1999) As the “100 days to the millennium” approaches, the anti-debt campaign, Jubilee 2000, has entered a period of intense activity.
Dam talks exclude minority groups
(September 15, 1999) Thai-based environmentalists yesterday accused the American organisers of a conference of going behind the backs of vulnerable ethnic groups in discussing massive Burmese dam projects in private.
EGAT halts Myanmar dam survey
(September 14, 1999) ‘We feel we have enough information to complete the feasibility study, even though it is not really as complete as we would have wanted’: EGAT halts survey work for a dam on the Salween (Nu) River after the death of an employee in a landmine accident.
ABB wins US$ 112-million order for China’s Three Gorges project
Switzerland–ABB, the global technology and engineering company, has been awarded a contract to deliver advanced high-voltage switchgear for the Three Gorges hydro power station in China. The US$ 112-million contract – the third order ABB has won for this major power infrastructure project – was awarded by the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation. Construction is scheduled to begin in the year 2001 and to be completed in 2004.
Finance Minister: Pak Mun dam (Thailand)
(September 14, 1999) Reply concerning the impact of the Pak Mun Dam in Thailand on the people who live and work nearby.
Vietnam revises down power output target
(September 13, 1999) The Vietnamese government has decided to revise down the country’s power output target of this year because of slackening consumption.
Guatemalan citizens harmed by World Bank-financed dam seek justice
(September 10, 1999) More than 17 years after a series of violent repressions stemming from Rio Negro’s opposition to the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric dam, three civil patrol commanders are being tried as material authors of the massacre.
PRESS RELEASE Guatemalan citizens harmed by World Bank-financed dam seek justice
(September 10, 1999) More than 17 years after a series of violent repressions stemming from Rio Negro’s opposition to the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric dam, three civil patrol commanders are being tried as material authors of the massacre.
Patricia Adams
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