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Ch. Karnchang already causing food insecurity near Xayaburi dam site

Construction on the controversial Xayaburi Hydropower Project just recently began, but local communities have already felt the impacts. In June 2012, we traveled down the Mekong River in Laos for five days to visit 15 of the villages near the dam site.

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From blog: International Rivers by Kirk Herbertson on 2012-07-12 05:54:00

RBS & ECGD offer billions in public money to expand Caspian fossil fuel infrastructure

While the Tory government forces through unpopular cutbacks to the NHS, education and pensions, British public institutions plan to invest hundreds of millions – if not billions – of pounds into new fossil fuel infrastructure on the Caspian. Both the British Export Credit Agency (the ECGD – recently rebranded “UK Export Finance”) and the Royal [...]

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From blog: Platform by adminbt on 2012-07-11 10:33:56