Year: <span>2013</span>

Year: 2013

Amur, Angara, Baikal Lake, Shilka, Yenisey

RWB appeal to China Yangtze Power Co on Social and Environmental Impacts of of Sino-Russian Hydropower Development

????????????????:Trans-Sibirskaya?Nizhne-Angarskaya?????????????? ??????   To: Mr. Zhang Cheng, General Manager China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd. CC: Mr. Cao Guangjing, Chairman of the Board of Directors Subject: Controversial side-effects of Sino-Russian hydropower trade: Social and Environmental Impacts of Trans-Sibirskaya and Nizhne-Angarskaya Hydropower Projects Date: 14.03.2013 Dear Mr. Zhang, Rivers without Boundaries is …

Baikal Lake, Selenga

Buriat NGO and RwB urge Kuwait Fund not to harm Lake Baikal

  Today, on the March 14, the Day of Action for Living rivers Against Large Dams  the Buryat Regional Organization for Lake Baikal"(BROB) and the Rivers without Boundaries International Coalition addressed His Excellency Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait, who …

Shilka

Acting Governor of Zabaikalsky Kray disapproves Hydropower Plant on Shilka River

  As the International Day of Action for Rivers approaching  in Russia  we see  unusually constructive cooperation of  local communities, NGOs, provincial governments and agencies.  Most amazing that high officials set the tone, although most of them are completely unaware of this environmental date. On March 12th, local media Bag …

Amur, Featured, Yenisey

Rivers without Boundaries Warns China Export-Import Bank against Risky Loan to Russian Hydropower Company

Contacts:Eugene Simonov ( ??), International Coordinator, Rivers without Boundaries: tel.+86-15041144074simonov@riverswithoutboundaries.org, Aliona Zenkova, Financial advocacy coordinator, Rivers without Boundaries: tel.+86-13488687464alinazenkova@gmail.com, RwB web-site: www.transrivers.org INFORMATION RELEASE March 14, 2013 Rivers without Boundaries Warns China Export-Import Bank against Risky Loan to Russian Hydropower Company On this International Day of Action for Rivers and …

Solidarity

International Rivers needs a Campaigns Director

International Rivers is based in Berkeley, California. International Rivers believes that healthy rivers are vital to a healthy planet, and that people should have a voice in development decisions that affect them. International Rivers is looking for a seasoned Campaigns Director to help lead our work with activists, organizations and …

Amur, Yenisey

Why En+Group promises to deliver electricity to China are hard to fulfill

?????? Rivers without Boundaries Coalition warns that promises by EN+ Group to supply China with “green hydropower” electricity are based on highly dangerous projects and unsustainable planning approaches, pose threat to globally recognized biodiversity and well-being of local communities, have no backing among experts and criticized by the public. From …