(August 1, 2006) View report
China power shortages (2003-2006)
(August 1, 2006) View report
China electricity rate hikes (2004-2006)
(July 1, 2006) View report
Finding the true cost of China’s west-east hydro
(May 24, 2006) Probe International Special Report: Grainne Ryder argues that China’s new electricity regulator should initiate a full-cost review of state dam-building in earthquake-prone Yunnan province.
Finding the true cost of China’s west-east hydro
Probe International Special Report: Grainne Ryder argues that China’s new electricity regulator should initiate a full-cost review of state dam-building in earthquake-prone Yunnan province.
China begins construction of controversial Mekong power plant
(February 18, 2006) Over the objections of its neighbours, China has begun building a dam on its portion of the Mekong River, which will be second in size only to the Three Gorges project, Agence France-Presse reports.
Ertan’s market failure and the World Bank’s outlook for China’s power sector
(February 22, 2006) The World Bank has given China’s second-largest hydropower project a satisfactory rating on its financial performance, despite its failure to meet the Bank’s financial targets and its near-bankruptcy in the first five years of operation.
Negotiating Riparian Recovery
(March, 2005) Applying BC Hydro Water Use Planning Experience in the Transboundary Se San River Basin by Grainne Ryder
Nam Theun 2 dam will destroy the livelihoods of poor villagers
(November 18, 2004) Ten years ago, the World Bank helped finance Thailand’s Pak Mun dam. Many of our supporters will remember that this mega-dam wiped out a productive fishery, flooded farmland, and impoverished dozens of thriving communities in northeast Thailand. The World Bank promised the villagers fair compensation and new rural livelihoods in model resettlement villages. In fact, the villagers were given mostly barren land, on which they could not survive. Most left the resettlement villages in search of jobs elsewhere.
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.
PRESS 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.
World Bank dam poses huge risk to Laotian farmers
(August 23, 2004) If Nam Theun 2 is built, the developers themselves predict "a collapse in the aquatic food chain," along the Xe Bangfai, a large Mekong tributary in central Laos. This would affect more than 40,000 people.
Tapping into the Death Star
(July 7, 2004) How Carl Pechman (a Probe International consultant) and a team of Santa Cruz-based transcribers worked tirelessly to get the now-infamous Enron tapes into the public domain.
PRESS RELEASE French-led hydro venture in Lao PDR is uncompetitive and obsolete, says new report
(July 1, 2004) Power consumers, rural poor would be better served by smaller projects.
World Bank financing Nam Theun 2
(February 18, 2004) World Bank financing for Nam Theun 2 clearly contradicts the Bank’s energy policy advice dispensed to Thailand and other developing countries over the past decade.
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