Tag: <span>Hydropower assessments</span>

NGOs Meet with the China Three Gorges Corporation on Russian Projects

The International Rivers’ China Program and expert from Rivers without Boundaries Coalition (RwB) on March 20, 2014 met with China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) and discussed interaction with NGOs, standards for overseas investment and possible involvement of the CTGC in the Amur river basin. All relevant departments of CTGC were …

Oxford Scientists came to the conclusion that large dams are uneconomic

Apparently Boguchansky Hydro on Angara River that was completed with making such colossal debts that the electricity price regulation in Russia was changed  to allow owners (Rushydro and Rusal) to avoid financial catastrophe is not an exception but follows common rule. Large dams do not make sense in modern economic …

Nelson Mandela: Careful use of our collective life support systems, the rivers entrusted to us as stewards of nature

ADDRESS AT THE LAUNCH OF THE FINAL REPORT OF THE WORLD COMMISSION ON DAMS. LONDON, 16 NOVEMBER 2000 (excerpts)   Friends !   It really gives me great pleasure to be present at and participate in this occasion of the launch of the report of the World Commission on Dams.… …

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 …

Russia urges the World Bank to stop funding projects threatening Lake Baikal

The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology in March 2013 issued an official letter to the World Bank expressing grave concerns regarding the fact that  the World Bank is supporting development of feasibility studies for  Shuren hydropower dam and Orkhon-Gobi water transfer project within a framework of MINIS project …