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ANZ The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited commonly called ANZ, is the fourth largest bank in Australia, after the Commonwealth Bank,… |
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BNP Paribas BNP Paribas is one of the main banks in Europe. It was created on 23 May 2000 through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas.… |
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Industrial Commercial Bank of China ICBC is a joint-stock commercial bank based in the People's Republic of China. Founded in 1984, ICBC was the world's biggest bank as of March 2009. ICBC's most… |
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KBC KBC, established in 1998 from a merger between two Belgian banks (the Kredietbank and CERA Bank) and the Belgian insurance company ABB, is an integrated bancassurance… |
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Santander Grupo Santander is a banking group centered on BancoSantander, the largest bank in the euro area, which originated in Santander,Cantabria, Spain. Santander focuses activities… |
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Belo Monte dam project The Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River is currently the largest dam project under consideration anywhere on the planet, and would be the world’s third largest in installed… |
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Gibe III Dam The Omo River is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in southwest Ethiopia and northern Kenya. In the Lower Omo Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,… |
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Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Project Located on the Sesan River, just below the confluence of the Srepok River in Cambodia's Stung Treng Province Province, the large 420MW, $816 million Lower Sesan 2 hydropower… |
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Nam Theun 2 dam The US$1.45 billion Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, in the small Southeast Asia country of Laos, is supposed to generate revenue for the cash-strapped Lao government by exporting… |
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Patagonia Dams: HidroAysén HidroAysén - owned by European company Endesa and Chilean company Colbun - plans to dam two of Chile's most powerful and pristine rivers, the Baker and Pascua Rivers.… |
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Theun-Hinboun expansion project If built, the Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project would displace up to 4,800 people and effect another 48,441 people living downstream on project construction lands and in host… |
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Xayaburi Dam Located in Northern Laos, the proposed Xayaburi Dam is the most advanced of eleven large hydropower dams planned for the Lower Mekong River's mainstream. The US$ 3.8 billion… |
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Eurosibenergo and En+ Group Eurosibenergo ESE (also known as "En+Power") is an electricity generation company which owns majority shares in 4 major Siberian hydropower plants: Irkutskaya, Bratskaya,… |
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Bujagali: Inspection Panel Investigation Report Links to World Bank report on the project. |
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EuroSibEnergo’s Hong Kong IPO Threatens Rivers of Siberia and Lake Baikal A report presenting the environmental risks associated with EuroSibEnergo’s plans to use the proceeds from its IPO to build two mega dams around Lake Baikal. |
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Gary Hughes' Patagonia blog Gary Hughes is International Rivers' campaigner on the Patagonia dams |
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International River's page on the Gibe III Dam |
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International Rivers photo stream of Xayaburi Dam |
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International Rivers: Bujagali project |
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International Rivers: Xayaburi Dam International rivers focus page |
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International Rivers' Patagonia Campaign |
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International Rivers' webpage on Belo Monte |
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Power Surge: The Impacts of Rapid Dam Development in Laos This report of International Rivers chronicles the social and environmental debt created by the dam-building boom in Laos. |
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Save the Mekong Coalition The coalition brings together NGOs, local people, academics, journalists, and others from within the Mekong countries and internationally. Its objective is to urge the Mekong governments to keep the Mekong flowing freely. |
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Stop Gibe 3 Dam Joint NGO website against the Gibe 3 Dam |
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The Mekong River Commission The MRC was formed on 5 April 1995 by an agreement between the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam. The countries agreed on joint management of their shared water resources. |
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Wikipedia: El Quimbo Dam Wikipedia page on the El Quimbo Dam |
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Belo Monte dam project Apr 29, 2010
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Laos - Theun River Basin Mar 18, 2009
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Massive Protests Against HidroAysen Jun 11, 2011
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Pictures from International Rivers Jul 06, 2011
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Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project - Laos Mar 23, 2009
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| Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers Jan 02, 2012 - |
| Sigourney Weaver Narrates Google Earth Tour of Belo Monte Dam Jun 29, 2011 - |
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| Villagers See Negative Impacts from Proposed Dam (Cambodia news in Khmer) Jun 16, 2011 - "River protection groups and villagers along the Sesan River in Ratanakkiri province have appealed to halt the Lower Sesan Dam II project, insisting more studies are needed on the dam's impact on community livelihoods. The appeal followed the government's approval of the dam project during a Vietnam-Cambodia investment conference in Phnom Penh last month. Foy Suth, a representative of riverside fishing communities on the Sesan, Sre Pork and Sekong rivers, said the families who depend on the rivers should be taken in to account. "Construction of the Lower Sesan Dam II would cause flooding so we request the government not to give permission to build this dam." VOA Khmer's Say Mony reports from Rattanakiri province." |
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| Patagonia Rising May 02, 2011 - Trailer for new movie Patagonia Rising. It tells the story and struggle surrounding two of Chilean Patagonia's most pristine rivers: the Baker and the Pascua. These free-flowing watersheds drive biodiversity and are the life source for Patagonia’s most tenacious residents – Gauchos, the iconic South American cowboys. |
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| Manifestación contra las represas en la Patagonia chilena May 02, 2011 - Protests in VALDIVIA against the dam |
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| Protesta Hidroayse?n / 19.30 PM May 02, 2011 - Video on the protests on April 26 |
| Community Video Statements: Our Concerns About The Lower Sesan 2 Dam (part 2 of 3) Apr 18, 2011 - |
| Community Video Statements: Our Concerns About The Lower Sesan 2 Dam (part 1 of 3) Apr 18, 2011 - |
| International Rivers about Belo Monte Sep 27, 2010 - Brent Millikan, Amazon Program Director of International Rivers, speaks about the problems with Belo Monte. |
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| Defending the Rivers of the Amazon, with Sigourney Weaver Aug 30, 2010 - Sigourney Weaver Narrates New Google Earth Animation on Brazil's Controversial Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon Rainforest. |
| The dark side of Ethiopia's dam boom; the fight to project Lake Turkana May 20, 2010 - Interview with Ikal Angelei of Friends of Lake Turkana. Ikal talks about dam development in the region and how Ethiopia is affected by development. |
| Aviva Imhof about International Rivers and BankTrack May 19, 2010 - Video shot during the BankTrack annual meeting in Zuerich, January 2010. |
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| Xingu: Why we don't want Belo Monte Apr 28, 2010 - |
| Risky Business: the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project Mar 22, 2010 - The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, the largest dam in Laos, was hailed by many as they way to reduce poverty and demonstrate best practice in socially and environmentally responsible dam building, still the initial signs have not been promising... |
| Meet Carl Middleton, Mekong Program Coordinator Feb 09, 2010 - Introduction video about International Rivers' campaigner in the Mekong area |
| G: Interview downstream Theun Hinboun river Nov 12, 2009 - subtitled interview downstream Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos |
| F: Interview village in project land Nov 12, 2009 - subtitled interview village in project land, May 2009, Laos |
| E: Interview village 2 downstream Theun Hinboun river Nov 12, 2009 - subtitled interview village 2 downstream Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos |
| D: Interview village downstream Theun Hinboun river Nov 12, 2009 - Subtitled interview village downstream Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos |
| C: Interview Resettled village part 2 Nov 12, 2009 - Subtitled interview resettled village part 2, May 2009, Laos |
| H: Extra footage project site THXP Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about project site THXP, May 2009, Laos |
| I: Extra footage THHP Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about THHP, May 2009, Laos |
| J: Extra footage different uses of the river Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about different uses of the river, May 2009, Laos |
| K: Extra footage the Theun Hinboun river Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about the Theun Hinboun river, May 2009, Laos |
| L: Extra footage village life Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about village life, May 2009, Laos |
| M: Extra footage fishing Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about fishing, May 2009, Laos |
| O: Extra footage processing rice Nov 12, 2009 - Additional footage about processing rice, May 2009, Laos |
| B: Interview Resettled village part 1 Nov 12, 2009 - Subtitled interview resettled village part one, May 2009, Laos |
| A: Still waters, deep trouble; how Equator bank commitments sink in Lao dams Nov 11, 2009 - This video shows how the Theun Hinboun Expansion Project in Laos is threatening the livelihoods of more than 50.000 local people. |
| The Rivers of Patagonia Mar 30, 2009 - The Spanish company Endesa plans to build a series of large hydroelectric dams on the wild rivers of Aysén province, in Chile's Patagonia region. Activists are organizing to stop the destruction of the rivers of Patagonia, Glenn Switkes |
| Mayel Lyang Sut Lom (Voices from the Hidden Land) Part 2 Feb 10, 2009 - |
| Mayel Lyang Sut Lom (Voices from the Hidden Land) Part 1 Feb 10, 2009 - Mayel Lyang Sut Lom is a 20 minute documentary by Tapas Majumdar and Souparna Lahiri that shows the campaigns of the Lepcha community in Sikkim, India, against the construction of large dams in their homeland. |
