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Stories of Resettlement and Resistance Along the Lancang River
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24.5.2013 |
International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed |
| By:
Songqiao Yao
Village above Gongguoqiao Reservoir
International Rivers
Below is a guest blog by Songqiao Yao, China program consultant for International Rivers, describing her March 2013 trip to the Lower Lancang River. You can read about her trip to the Upper Lancang in October 2012 here.
“Now we can still sell some vegetables and feed ourselves, but how are we going to live without land?”
Those were the words spoken by several women selling vegetables at a morning market, whom I met during a recent trip to the lower Lancang River . The market was at Biao Cun, a township by the river. The township and its nearby villages would all be inundated by the Miaowei Dam reservoir, which China plans to build by 2016.
China plans to build and operate ten additional dams on the Lancang River as part of its 12th Five Year Energy Plan . If all are built, more than 30,000 people will be relocated away from their ancestral lands.
10 years of unsettled life
Biaocun morning ... |
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Text of President Obama speech on terrorism
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24.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Politics |
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McDonald's can't shake criticism about nutrition
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24.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
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Fluoridated water
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23.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Opinion |
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$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
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23.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood. |
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$2B in Okla. tornado damage means hard recovery
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23.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood. |
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Ore. officer arrested at Wash. home in assault
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23.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Local |
| A suburban Portland police officer already accused of food stamp fraud has been arrested by SWAT officers at his Vancouver, Wash., home in connection with the sexual assault of a 5-year-old child. |
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Ore. officer arrested at Wash. home in assault
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Firefighters unprepared for Texas blast
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23.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Opinion/Editorial |
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New Paraguay leaders promise more free milk
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23.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack clean drinking water. |
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DR Congo Waits on Funding for World's Largest Hydropower Project
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23.5.2013 |
International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed |
| By:
John Vidal
Date:
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and South Africa agreeing to buy half of the power generated.
In the past 60 years French, Belgian, Chinese, Brazilian and African engineers have all hoped to dam the river.
But decades of civil war, corruption, and the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) reputation as a failed state have limited the hydropower developments at the country's Inga Falls to two relatively small dams, built in 1972 and 1982. These, known as Inga 1 and 2, have a theoretical capacity of 1,400 megawatts but produce about half that.
A new $20bn (£13.2bn) development to generate a further 4,800MW was announced over the weekend in Paris, with work planned to start in October 2015. According to the DRC government, working with European and other consultants, five further stages ... |
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USAID Releases Water Strategy
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22.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
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Complaint accuses Exxon Mobil of anti-gay bias
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
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House preserves its own budget as others face cuts
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Politics |
| House lawmakers are moving to protect Capitol Hill's budget even as they slash programs like education, health research, water projects and housing aid for the poor. |
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Tom Stritikus, Susan Enfield on overcoming poverty and educating South King County kids
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Opinion |
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Okla. mayor wants to require tornado shelters
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| The mayor of the Oklahoma City suburb battered by a monstrous tornado says he is pushing to require safe-room shelters in all new homes. |
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In tornado alley, few dwellings have shelters
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children died in Monday’s tornado, lacked an underground shelter. And no local ordinance or building code requires such shelters in houses, schools or businesses. |
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Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up. |
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Calls for Action at U.S. - India Energy Partnership Summit in DC; Extreme Heat in hits Ahmedabad
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22.5.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York:
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Renton man convicted of killing 1, wounding 3 others in Seattle bus shelter
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21.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Local |
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