(January 15, 2001) A central China settlement was put under official guard for months after villagers protested the destruction of their homes, as part of a local government plan to rebuild the area to accommodate Three Gorges dam migrants.
A leader of Embera Katio assassinated
(January 15, 2001) Amazon Alliance reports that Armando Achito Lubiaza, a leader of the Embera Katío people of Colombia, was assassinated on December 25, 2000. Armando Achito was serving on an international commission looking into human rights violations associated with the Urrá Dam.
Letter from EDC President and CEO, responds to WCD questions
(January 11, 2001) EDC’s Ian Gillespie responds to Patricia Adams’ letter regarding EDC’s accountability and its adherence to the findings in the World Commission on Dams report.
Sold down the river: tribe’s home to be a valley of the dammed
(January 7, 2001) Even in the dry season, and even in this time of war and uncertainty, the Salween River is a majestic waterway. … But now ominous signs have appeared, signs that promise disaster for the people of the Salween and their god.
China’s giant dam faces huge problems
(January 7, 2001) When China started building the giant Three Gorges Dam here in 1993, its leadership sought to use the undertaking — the country’s most ambitious engineering project since the Great Wall — to highlight the superiority of its socialist system. But now, halfway into the construction, some Chinese officials, engineers and activists say the project has instead become a testimony to malfeasance, incompetence and systemic weakness.
Debt relief needs an epiphany
(January 5, 2001) Forgiving the poorest countries’ loans is only a start, say Sara Stratton and church groups campaigning for reform.
Asian Development Bank responds to Theun-Hinboun report
(January 1, 2001) Letter from the ADB responding to concerns expressed in Bruce Shoemaker’s December 2000 Theun-Hinboun Report.
Export Credit Agency finance in Indonesia
(January 1, 2001) EDF report concludes that ECAs played a major role in financing environmentally and socially unsustainable investments by assisting foreign investors in supporting Suharto’s system of economic and political monopolies.
Africa’s Development Crisis – Another Berlin Conference is Possible
(January 1, 2001) A huge chunk of the external debt of African countries is composed of debt contracted in questionable circumstance. Two-thirds of Nigeria’s over $28 billion external debt was contracted between 1983 and 1998 when the military held sway.
Where things stand with Fortis’s proposed Chalillo dam
(December 24, 2000) 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.
Letter to the WCD Chair, signed by the ADB President
(December 22, 2000) Following is a letter to the WCD Chair, signed by the ADB President, and information about a workshop organized by WCD at ADB’s headquarters from February 19-20, 2001.
Three Gorges Probe – flood control; resettlement; water clean-up and conservation
(December 15, 2000) Yangtze flood control chief says, keep the alarm bells ringing
Corruption in the third world is our problem
(December 13, 2000) Britain is slow to punish businessmen who offer bribes abroad.
Three Gorges dam a time bomb, reports Asiaweek
(December 11, 2000)… China’s Three Gorges dam is a time bomb with problems to match its colossal girth …
Loan given to build hydropower dam abroad
(December 11, 2000) China’s Exim Bank agrees to provide credit for the construction of the first overseas BOT project by China’s power industry: Kirirom I Hydropower Plant Rehabilitation Project, in Cambodia.
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