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Dams: Struggles Against the Modern Dinosaurs 3 Dams Struggles against the modern dinosaurs World Rainforest Movement 2 World Rainforest Movement General coordination: Ricardo Carrere Edited by: Hersilia Fonseca Cover design: Flavio Pazos Cover photos: Yaciretá Dam. Source: EBY and Sobrevivencia-Paraguay © World Rainforest Movement International Secretariat Maldonado 1858, Montevideo, Uruguay ph: +598 2 413 2989, fax: +598 2 418 0762 e-mail: [email protected] web site: http://www.wrm.org.uy European office 1c Fosseway Business Centre, Stratford Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9NQ, United Kingdom ph: +44.1608.652.893, fax: +44.1608.652.878 e-mail: [email protected] This publication is also available in Spanish and French. The contents of this publication can be reproduced totally or partially without prior authorization. However, the World Rainforest Movement should be duly accredited and notified of any reproduction. Published in April 2003. ISBN: 9974-7719-3-5 The elaboration of this publication contents was made possible with support from NOVIB (The Netherlands) and from the Swedish Society for Nature Conserva- tion. This book has been prepared with the financial support of the Rainforest Programme of the Netherlands Committee for IUCN (NC-IUCN/TRP). The views expressed, the information and material presented, and the geographical and geopolitical designations used in this product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of NC-IUCN/TRP or the institutions and organisa- tions providing NC-IUCN with funds. Dams: Struggles against the modern dinosaurs 3 Dams Struggles against the modern dinosaurs World Rainforest Movement 4 World Rainforest Movement I. Rosgal S.A. Dep. Legal N° 326288/03 Dams: Struggles against the modern dinosaurs 5 CONTENTS ABOUT THIS BOOK ....................................................................................... 9 INTRODUCTION Large hydroelectric dams: dinosaurs on their way out .................................... 11 WRM BULLETIN EDITORIAL ON DAMS Dams, forests and people ................................................................................ 14 DAMS: AN OVERVIEW Hydroelectric dams are no solution to climate change .................................... 16 New World Bank Resettlement Policy Is Flawed ............................................. 17 Skanska pulls out of dam-building . or does it? ........................................... 19 International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life ...... 22 Urgent action against the World Bank’s proposed resettlement policy! .......... 23 International forum against dams .................................................................... 24 DAMS: THE STRUGGLES AFRICA Ghana What’s hidden behind the Bui Dam Project? ................................................... 24 Kenya Resistance to the Sondu Mirium Dam project ................................................. 26 Namibia Uncertainty on the future of Epupa Dam ......................................................... 28 Uganda The same old story about dams ...................................................................... 30 The Bujagali Dam, A useless giant .................................................................. 30 Bujagali dam project questioned by World Bank’s Inspection Panel .............. 32 Bujagali dam project comes back under a new disguise ................................. 33 ASIA Burma A dam megaproject for the benefit of the people? .......................................... 35 6 World Rainforest Movement Human rights abuses linked to foreign investment in “development” .............. 37 Revival of the Weigyi dam ............................................................................... 38 China The Mekong Dam Strangles the Life-source of Millions .................................. 39 India The Dandeli dam project scandal .................................................................... 41 Rainwater harvesters and forest protectors of the Aravalli hills ...................... 43 Indonesia Mamberamo dam threatens nomadic tribes .................................................... 47 ADB will not fund Mamberamo dam ................................................................ 49 Laos Dams, conservation and people ...................................................................... 50 Dams generate environmental and social destruction .................................... 52 Planned Nam Theun 2 dam leads to increased logging .................................. 52 IUCN’s controversial role in the Nam Theun 2 dam ........................................ 55 The impact of the Nam Theun 2 dam on indigenous peoples ......................... 57 Nam Theun 2 dam - Fighting corruption World Bank style .............................. 60 The Nam Theun 2 Dam - WWF Thailand’s position ........................................ 62 Asian Development Bank to support proposed Nam Theun 2 dam ................ 65 Malaysia Defer Resettlement of Bakun residents in Sarawak ........................................ 67 Sarawak, field trip to interview people resettled by dam ................................. 70 Opposition to dam megaproject ....................................................................... 71 Conflict caused by Bakun dam continues in Sarawak ..................................... 72 The “progress” brought by the Bakun dam in Sarawak ................................... 76 Why the Selangor Dam? ................................................................................. 76 Bakun Dam project once again relaunched..................................................... 78 Philippines Dam megaproject resisted ............................................................................... 79 Local people against the San Roque dam....................................................... 80 Thailand Local people resist dams ................................................................................. 81 Peoples’ demonstrations ................................................................................. 83 Authorities play “Ethnic” and “Nationalist” cards.............................................. 88 Local people’s resistance to dams .................................................................. 89 Letter to the Prime Minister on Rasi Salai dam ............................................... 90 Free the Mun River! ......................................................................................... 91 For the authorities, reality at the Pak Mun dam does not exist ........................ 92 Dams: Struggles against the modern dinosaurs 7 Turkey The Ilisu Dam and export credit agencies ....................................................... 93 Vietnam Dam in Vietnam hits Cambodians ................................................................... 96 Na Hang dam threatens forests, people and wildlife ....................................... 98 Swedish involvement in dam that will hit Cambodians .................................... 100 Resettlement to make way for massive Son La dam ...................................... 102 CENTRAL AMERICA Belize Pristine forests threatened by dam project ...................................................... 104 Canadian company to dam the Macal River .................................................... 105 Another turn of the screw on the Chalillo dam project ..................................... 106 Costa Rica Indigenous territory threatened by hydroelectric dam ..................................... 108 Opposition to hydroelectric dam ...................................................................... 110 Guatemala A dam and the massacre of 400 people .......................................................... 111 Honduras Peasants demand Government to halt hydroelectric project ........................... 113 SOUTH AMERICA Argentina Environmental justice in action ........................................................................ 115 Bolivia Hydroelectric dam project questioned ............................................................. 115 Brazil Support for Extractive Reserve on islands of Tucuruí Dam reservoir .............. 117 Interamerican Development Bank promotes destruction of Upper Tocantins River...................................................................................... 118 Indigenous peoples restart their struggle against dams on the Xingú river .... 120 Old hydroelectric dam project again threatens Amazon peoples .................... 121 Chile World Bank acknowledges mistake and impacts in the Bio Bio Pangue dam ........................................................................................ 123 8 World Rainforest Movement International Prize awarded to two Mapuche women ...................................... 124 The struggle of the Pehuenche against the Ralco Dam .................................. 124 Colombia “The life and dignity of the Embera people won’t be flooded”: Dueda tu beu ea embera neta Embera ea ...................................................... 126 The U’wa and Embera join forces .................................................................... 127 The Urrá Dam and the death of the Sinú River ............................................... 128 WORLD COMMISSION ON DAMS REPORT/2000 “Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making”, An Overview ....................................................................... 130 REFERENCES ................................................................................................ 141 Dams: Struggles
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