(Sierra Club, Oakland, 23 April 2021) More than a year has passed since the deadly April 10, 2020 coal ash disaster at the US EXIM-financed Sasan coal plant in Singrauli, India. The coal ash disaster was responsible for the deaths of six people and created a massive flood of coal ash that...
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(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 11 November 2020) Many industrialised nations are switching to renewable energy at home. But while they commit to phasing out fossil fuel energy domestically, these commitments are abandoned outside their borders, where they continue to push dirty energy, thus...
more(Amnesty International, Ottawa, 14 March 2020) In 2016, Export Development Canada - a crown corporation that claims its transactions are “environmentally and socially responsible” - approved millions of dollars in loans to Empresas Públicas de Medellin, the company building the HidroItuango dam...
more(Standard Media, Nairobi, 7 March 2019) The Government of Kenya paid Sh10 billion to insure the loans taken for construction of the controversial Arror and Kimwarer dams, but industry experts argue the cost should not have exceeded Sh1 billion. Italian insurer SACE was paid Sh11.1 billion [94.2...
more(Global Trade Review, London, 30 November 2018) BBVA has granted a five-year €16.5mn loan to a hydroelectric project in Colombia with backing from Cesce, Spain’s export credit agency (ECA). The operation has been certified as “green” by consulting firm Aecom in line with the...
more(OECD Watch, Amsterdam, 20 August 2018) NCP finds company failed to do due diligence and breached the Guidelines at Turkey's Ilisu mega-dam. On 20 August 2018, the Dutch NCP released its...
more(Reuters, Ankara/Baghdad, 7 June 2018) Turkey has temporarily stopped filling a huge dam on the Tigris River after complaints from neighboring Iraq, which is suffering water shortages, officials said on Thursday. Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad and Iraq's water minister also said that the two...
more(Financial Tribune, Tehran, 14 March 2017) Multibillion-dollar deals have been signed with East Asian companies to develop dam infrastructure in Iran, including a $1.7 billion agreement with South Korea for developing the Bakhtiari hydroelectric dam and a $341 million Sinosure...
more(Environmental Finance, 15 November 2016, Washington) On a promising note, the US recently led successful opposition to...
more(Global Construction Review, London, 8 July 2016) Chinese companies are playing huge role in bringing electricity to sub-Saharan Africa and can take credit for 30% of new capacity in the region, according to a study published this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While more than...
more(The Reporter, Addis Ababa, 12 March 2016) The long-awaited negotiation between Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and the Italian construction company, Salini Costruttori, has been finalized enabling the latter to commence with the building of the 2,200MW Gibe IV hydropower plant. The two...
more(International Rivers, Berkeley, 3 December 2015) At the Paris COP, 500 NGOs from 85 countries published a manifesto on 10 Reasons Why Climate Initiatives Should Not Include Large Hydropower Projects. The manifesto explicitly refers to the inclusion of large hydro projects in the special terms...
more(Hasankeyf Action Day, Hasankeyf, 20 September 2015) On September 20th, activists, social movements and NGO's joined an international action day for the conservation of Hasankeyf and the Tigris River. Protesting against the Ilisu Dam Project, a large demonstration took place in the 10.000 year...
more(ECA Watch Austria, Vienna, 21 February 2014) On February 20th, the Austrian company Andritz received the “Eyesore of the Year 2013” award for its involvement in three dam projects with tremendous negative ecological and human rights impacts: Xayaburi in Laos, Belo Monte in Brazil as well as...
more(Damocracy, 21 May 2013) Representatives of dam-affected communities and international organizations from South America, the Middle East, Europe, the US, and Africa, today blocked the entrance to the construction site of the Ilisu dam in southeast Turkey demanding an end to the controversial...
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