Take Action!

All over the world, people are fighting to protect their rivers and their livelihoods from new dams. They are demanding compensation for problems caused by old dams. And they are proposing better alternatives for energy, water supply and flood management. But they need your help to succeed!

Please take a moment to respond to these Action Alerts and make your voice heard!

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• Please take a few minutes to take our website survey. Your feedback is an invaluable resource and we want to hear from you.

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Protect Brazil's Xingu River!

The Xingu River (Sue Cunningham)

The Brazilian government is planning to build the world´s third largest dam on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon. Belo Monte Dam would require diverting nearly the entire flow of the Xingu River, drying up its famous “Big Bend” and its tributary, the Bacaja, home to hundreds of indigenous people. Native people upstream would also be affected by the dam's impacts on fish, their principal food source.

The indigenous people of the Xingu Basin have vowed to "not accept the construction of dams, large or small, on the Xingu and its tributaries.”

• Please send a letter to Brazil´s President Lula and other decision-makers in the Brazilian government telling them that you support the position of indigenous peoples of the rainforest - that Brazil has better ways of meeting its future energy needs than destroying the mighty Xingu River.

• Then make a donation to help reach our $10,000 goal to support Brazilians fighting to protect the Xingu River and their human rights!
  

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Help Chileans Reject Patagonia Dams!

Patagonia, Baker River - protest (Glenn Switkes)

A new study released this summer showed that there's no need to dam Patagonia's rivers; Chile already has more than enough existing and approved generating capacity to meet its energy needs through 2025.

In spite of this, HidroAysén - the consortium planning to dam the spectacular Baker and Pascua rivers in Chilean Patagonia - resubmitted its environmental impact assessment (EIA) on October 20, 2009.

 

• Write to the Chilean government today to urge them to reject HidroAysén's EIA, and to promote less destructive and cheaper options for meeting Chile's future energy needs.
  

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Dam Home Depot – Save Patagonia's Rivers!

The Pascua: A River is Born (Aviva Imhof)

The Home Depot is one of the largest US buyers of wood products from CMPC and Arauco, two companies that are deeply involved in the HidroAysén scheme to build 5 dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in Chilean Patagonia. This multi-billion dollar hydroelectric mega-project would ruin rivers, flood rare endangered forests and destroy livelihoods. The 1,500-mile transmission lines would slice through rare Patagonian forests, creating the world's longest clearcut. We're calling on The Home Depot to use their power to save Patagonia from destruction.

 

• Tell The Home Depot you won't shop at their stores until they protect Patagonia!

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