Category: <span>Baikal Lake</span>

Professor Mackay: Shuren dam in Mongolia may be the most important threat to Selenga river delta

  Anson Mackay, Professor of Environmental Change at UCL (UK), conducts research on detecting pollution in Lake Baikal and the Selenga River. His short article “Lake Baikal: incredible ecosystem threatened by Mongolian dam and pipeline” shows how new dam initiatives of Mongolia may drastically exacerbate already existing problems of unique …

RwB Mongolia Explains the Reasons for Compliant to the World Bank Inspection on Selenge Basin Dams

Ulaanbaatar – Today Rivers without Boundaries Mongolia addressed domestic and international media with the following message. In mid-February, community representatives from Russia and Mongolia – along with several of environmental and human rights NGOs – submitted a request for an investigation to the World Bank’s independent accountability arm, the Inspection …

People of Selenga-Baikal Basin address the World Bank Inspection Panel

People living in the basin of the Selenga river in Russia and Mongolia, together with a number of environmental NGOs, filed a petition to the World Bank Inspection Panel demanding that the feasibility studies of dangerous hydro-electric power plants (HPP) projects must be postponed and the WB MINIS project thoroughly …

Does the World Bank still want to destroy Selenge River? Ask the US Government…

Rivers without Boundaries is thrilled to report that "Power for People" campaign we participate in has important new support from unexpected ally – the US Government!!! Now we hope that the biggest WB donor will object to ill-concieved Mining Infrastructure Support Project(MINIS) in Mongolia that supports feasibility studies for several …

Russian government protects Baikal from impacts of Mongolian hydropower

Russia is concerned about Mongolia’s plan to construct the Shuren hydroelectric power plant on Selenga River that could adversely affect the ecosystem of Lake Baikal. At a recent meeting of the National Security Council One return free product class thailand pharmacies as expensive cradle-cap–big: look myorderstatus need highly my http://tietheknot.org/leq/where-can-i-buy-nitrofuraton.html …