(January 28, 2002) Next month, Thailand plans to sign a preliminary contract with Laos to buy $200 million of power a year from Indochina’s largest hydroelectric dam, Nam Theun 2.
When 10-year-olds debate the dam, the people win
When Tim Wilson’s Grade 4 class staged a debate recently on the Three Gorges dam, ‘the people’ took on ‘the government,’ and triumphed.
Legal injunction sought to stop Chalillo
The Guardian newspaper in Belize highlights Probe International’s press release announcing BACONGO will seek a legal injunction to stop the Chalillo dam.
Quick cleanup sparks fears of an environmental time bomb
(January 23, 2002) As China races against the clock to clean up the bottom of the future Three Gorges reservoir this year, experts fear the colossal undertaking could be too little, too late to avert an environmental catastrophe.
CIDA helped pay for report on dam
(January 23, 2002) Assessment firm in conflict of interest. Probe International claims CIDA’s “choice of consultant for conducting an environmental assessment has no credibility.”
Menem accused of taking bribe in 1994 bombing
(January 23, 2002) Argentina is investigating Carlos Menem, the former president, for allegedly taking bribes to cover up Iranian involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre in which 86 people died, the Swiss government said yesterday.
Do like I say in siting dams, not like I do in ignoring critics
(January 21, 2002) The World Bank couldn’t resist and the upper Nile River will never be the same again, thanks to the 200-Mw Bujagali Dam in Uganda.
China races to save history
"[I]t would take 500 years to find all the archeological treasures in the Three Gorges," Associated Press quotes a senior archeologist, while Beijing calls the effort to save relics threatened by dam as the biggest historical salvage operation ever.
Oil-hunting China aims to curb appetite
(January 20, 2002) ‘While striving to secure foreign oil and gas to fuel sizzling economic growth of more than 9 percent a year, [China] is struggling to limit soaring reliance on outside supplies by increasing nuclear and hydroelectric power.’
Fortis facing injunction at dam site in Belize
(January 19, 2002) Environmental groups in the Central American country of Belize are preparing to seek an injunction against Newfoundland-based Fortis Inc. to stop all construction at its proposed Chalillo dam site.
PI in paradise
Earlier this year, Probe International’s Gr inne Ryder spent time in the area of Belize the Canadian-backed Chalillo dam will flood.
Groups seek legal injunction to stop construction of Canadian-backed hydro dam in Belize rainforest
Environmental groups in Belize are preparing to seek an injunction against Newfoundland-based company Fortis Inc. to stop all construction activity at its proposed Chalillo dam site.
Reservoir cleanup begins with a bang
The Three Gorges reservoir cleanup operation blasts off this Sunday when a power plant is blown up live on national television, the Chongqing Economic News (Chongqing jingji bao) reports.
Migrants not above the law, newspaper warns
People displaced by the Three Gorges dam should not regard themselves as "special citizens" above the law, the Three Gorges Project Daily (Sanxia gongcheng bao) has warned.
PRESS RELEASE: Export Development Canada environmental assessment for Romanian CANDU nuke plant a sham, EDC critic
(January 17, 2002) New legislation protects EDC from legal action.
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