As the World Bank returns to the big dam business with the inauguration of Laos’ largest hydropower project, many are concerned that the Bank-financed dams “will serve as a template for a big dam culture led by private sector investors with little interest in the environmental and social impact of these projects.”
On November 4, 2010 the World Bank’s Inspection Panel received a complaint from a Lebanese citizen representing himself and approximately 50 Beirut inhabitants who say that a World Bank water project will have negative impacts environmentally and economically. Management at the Bank has until December 13, 2010 to respond to the complaint.
The Annual Meetings are often an opportunity for civil society representatives to meet with World Bank staff to whom they wouldn’t otherwise have access. BIC developed a training session to make sure advocacy opportunities with World Bank Executive Directors are used to their fullest. More than 30 international civil society participants came together to learn …
NGOs challenge the institution at the 2010 Annual General Meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington, DC, October 6th through 10th.
Since the beginning of the 90’s there have been warnings on the potential impacts of the hydroelectric project on the rivers Paraguay and Parana and its surrounding areas.
The construction of an imense hydroelectric dam in Cachuela Esperanza, which the government of Evo Morales plans to install in the Northeast is not feasable in technical, economic and environmental terms, as warned by Jorge Molina, expert of the Hydraulic Institute of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés de La Paz.
President Evo Morales announced on tuesday that the study and final design for the construction of a massive hydroelectric plant in Canchuela Esperanza, northeast Bolivia, have been concluded. The plant will generate 990 megawatts, almost the cureent energy demand of the whole country.
Every year about 30 thousand tourists from Europe, Asia, North America and Israel visit Rurrenabaque, known as the Pearl of the ecotourism in the Amazon, which runs the risk of becoming a dusty and polluted town of transit.
Bolivian Deputy Minister of Environment Juan Pablo Ramos and Director Environment Luis Beltrán submitted irrevocable resignation from their posts on Friday of last week, after government officials tried to force them to sign an environmental permit for the construction of a highway in the Chapare region of Cochabamba.
Municipal mayors in the Pando departament, located in the Bolivian Amazon, decidided to expel several NGOs, foundations and companies operating in their territories.