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  • Rejecting Dams as Climate Solutions at COP26

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on April 14, 2022

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) took place in Glasgow from 31st October to 13th November 2021. It is one of the most important climate summits…

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  • Call for Contributors: Run-of-the-River Hydropower Dams

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on March 24, 2022

    Calling on researchers with particular knowledge and experience about so-called “run-of-the-river” dams to collaborate with Dr. Ian Baird and Dam Watch International on developing an in-depth article about how…

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  • Las Placetas Hydroelectric Complex Threatens Ecosystems and Communities in the Dominican Republic

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on February 7, 2022

    The central mountains of the Dominican Republic- home to diverse flora and fauna and the highest peaks in the entire Caribbean- are under threat from the

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  • Canadian Senator Speaks on Behalf of Communities Calling for Accountability of Hydro

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on January 11, 2022

    On December 14, 2021, Honourable Mary Jane McCallum spoke to fellow Canadian senators about the need to carefully consider the impacts of hydroelectricity in the context of…

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  • Proposed Lakhwar Project, India Will Affect at Least 50 Communities

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on January 10, 2022

    The proposed dam involves a massive 204 m high dam on river Yamuna at a place called Lakhwar upstream of the Dehradun town with storage capacity of 580 Million…

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  • The Invisibilized Costs of Hydroelectricity

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on November 25, 2021

    The pristine river systems of the world have been dammed for various purposes like irrigation, hydroelectricity, and storing water in reservoirs for drinking purposes. Hydroelectricity is generated by the…

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  • Belo Monte Dam has tripled greenhouse gases in the eastern Amazon

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on October 24, 2021

    Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River 2017, photo by Fernanda Brandt (CC)   Research published in the Science Advances journal shows that greenhouse gases in the eastern Amazon have…

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    Open Letter to the PM of India Regarding Unjustified Hydropower Development

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on September 13, 2021

    Civil Society Organizations and researchers in India have written an open letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change regarding the recent announcement that…

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  • Hydropower is not a climate solution

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on August 25, 2021

    In August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their most incriminating report yet on the state of the global climate crisis. This…

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