(October 13, 2004) The World Bank is likely to finalize its decision on providing financial support to the $1.2 billion Nam Theun 2 hydropower project in Laos by the end of this year, a senior official at Thailand’s Energy Ministry said Wednesday.
Consultations continue over funding guarantee for controversial power project in Lao PDR
(October 13, 2004) The World Bank would do well to take more than usual care over this decision: powerful people in the U.S. Government are taking a close interest in its lending policies and aren’t happy with the Bank in relation to development funding.
PI News Release: World Bank report confirms Nam Theun 2 is not Thailand’s least-cost power option
(October 12, 2004) A study commissioned by the World Bank reports Thailand has alternatives to the Nam Theun 2 hydro project in Laos that are cheaper and commercially viable, but that they were excluded from the country’s official power development plans.
Green energy for Pehuenche Indians
(September 29, 2004) Pehuenche indigenous people who waged and lost an eight-year legal battle against the construction of the Ralco hydropower dam in southern Chile have signed an agreement to build a green-friendly
micro-hydropower plant to supply them with electricity.
Nam Theun 2 Dam: Locals see only positives
(September 28, 2004) Meeting backs construction despite objections from activists, NGOs.
PI Submission to World Bank Nam Theun 2 Workshop
(September 10, 2004) Based on Probe International’s review of all available information, World Bank and Asian Development Bank funding for the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project would constitute foreign aid abuse.
Contribution to the final report on the Sept. 7 consultation in Paris (France): Nam Theun 2 dam
(September 9, 2004) Invited by the World Bank to attend a day of consultation on the Nam Theun 2 dam project, the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR) elegation came away dissatisfied with the answers they were given.
Mayan Indians seize disputed Guatemalan dam
(September 8, 2004) Hundreds of Maya Indians have seized control of Guatemala’s largest dam and have warned they would cut power supplies if they are not compensated for land and lives lost in massacres when it was built.
Friends of the Earth?
(September 7, 2004) Western conservationists back Indochina’s largest, most environmentally destructive hydro scheme.
Drowned, not downed, trees in the Amazon get nasty
(September 7, 2004) A funny thing happened back when the Brazilian government was building the giant $8 billion dam that bears the name of this town in the eastern Amazon.
A way of life threatened
(September 7, 2004) The Nam Theun 2 dam will double water levels in central Laos’ Xe Bang Fai River and destroy the self-sufficient lifestyle of thousands of people living along its banks, writes Mekong environmental researcher Dave Hubbel.
‘We demand respect for our rights as a people’
(September 7, 2004) The Guatemalan government and the World Bank must resolve damages caused by the Chixoy dam, say activists.
Proposed power dam sparks heated debate
(September 2, 2004) Some critics doubt the Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos is necessary.
World Bank consults on big Laos dam project
(September 1, 2004) The World Bank launched an unprecedented exercise in public consultation yesterday on whether it should back a project to build a dam in Laos in a tributary of the Mekong river.
Criticism dominates first public debate on huge Laos dam
(August 31, 2004) “Don’t let this be a repetition of the Pak Moon dam”, say Thai opponents of World Bank-backed Lao dam.
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