(January 10, 2002) For first time since the Pak Mun dam was built ten years ago, a wild Mekong Giant Catfish was caught in the Mun River. This king of fish likely migrated to the Mun River once dam’s gates were opened last year.
Power deal to be signed on Jan 17
(January 9, 2002) EGAT set to finalise controversial Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos by signing a power-purchasing agreement with the project’s owners next week.
China takes on toxic industry
(January 7, 2002) SEPA says it has received 45 accident reports, mostly water pollution, since last November when an explosion in a chemical plant on the Songhua River killed five people.
Earthquake hits Three Gorges area
(January 4, 2002) An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 shook an area 40 kilometres upstream of the Three Gorges dam last month, the Three Gorges Project Daily (Sanxia gongcheng bao) reported.
Chapter 9/11?
(January 1, 2002) Resolving international debt crises – the Jubilee Framework for international insolvency
Fair and transparent arbitration on debt
(January 1, 2002) There is a need for Arbitration on specific types of Loans or debt in particular the odious and illegitimate debts, which are categorised to include the following: Debts that cannot be serviced without causing harm to people and communities.
Out of the vicious cycle of debt
(January 1, 2002) Debt cancellation is all the more legitimate in that it can be justified by several legal arguments, including the notions of "odious debt."
EDC Exposed! Probe International’s Inventory of EDC-Supported Projects
(January 1, 2002) In an attempt to increase public access to information on EDC operations, Probe International has assembled the following information from our extensive files, including 20 years of correspondence with EDC, EDC Annual Reports and news releases, and articles from trade journals, newspapers, and magazines.
Need versus greed? The Bujagali Falls dam project gets go-ahead from World Bank despite criticism
(January 1, 2002) The Bujagali Falls are a site of national pride in Uganda. Twisting blue waters set against a carpet of green land, the Bujagali Falls are a beautiful landmark in comparison to this country’s rough and difficult history.
PRESS RELEASE: Environmental clearance for Canadian-backed hydro scheme in Belize illegal, say conservation groups
Chalillo Press Backgrounder
The story of Nam Theun 2 public consultations
(December 31, 2001) Indeed, public consultation has been honed to a science. The Bank takes it so seriously that for Nam Theun 2, it hired an evolution expert to evaluate formally the effectiveness of the Nam Theun 2 public consultations.
Environmental clearance for Canadian-backed hydro scheme in Belize illegal, say conservation groups
(December 31, 2001) Conservation groups opposing a Canadian-backed
hydro scheme in a Belize rainforest are challenging the government’s
environmental clearance for the project as illegal.
Why should they pay? (Letter to the Editor)
(December 28, 2001) Millions of black South Africans, who lack basic services such as housing, decent schools and hospitals, must toil daily to pay back the billions of dollars borrowed by former apartheid regimes to oppress them.
Where things stand with Fortis’s proposed Chalillo dam
The last few months have seen major developments in the campaign to stop Fortis’s hydro scheme in Belize’s Macal River Valley. Here’s an update of recent events.
Fight for the right to say no
(December 22, 2001) SOME large dams just shouldn’t be built.
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
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