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China plans to build and operate ten new dams on the Lancang River as part of its 12th Five Year Energy Plan. If all are built, more than 30,000 people will be relocated away from their ancestral lands.
Governments and donors have announced their plans to move forward with the Grand Inga Dam on the Congo River, the world's largest hydropower project. Mega-dams have often been presented as...
Sarawak Energy, state developer of the controversial Murum and Baram dams in Sarawak, barred a representative of dam-affected people from participating in a workshop organized by the IFC,...
I’m heading to the Tigris River next week with a bundle of recent news articles under my arm that sets the context for an upcoming international gathering of river defenders in Turkey.
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More than three hundred indigenous people of the Penan, the Kenyah, the Kayan, and Iban ethnic groups protested this morning against the recently finished Bakun Dam, the Murum Dam currently...
This article originally appeared in The GuardianThe dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial...
Representatives of dam-affected communities and international organizations from South America, the Middle East, Europe, the US and Africa blocked the entrance to the construction site of...
Activists in Sarawak, one of Malaysia's poorest states, have denounced local government plans to build 12 hydro-power dams, which they say is an environmental disaster in the making that...
