On July 31, we posted:
“Ten Ecuadorians were arrested while protesting plans for the private Hidrotambo hydroelectric dam along the Dulcepamba river in Chillanes canton, Bolivar province. The arrests came after a six-month land occupation in opposition to the dam. (Got any more info on this? Let us know!)”
Happily, we got a response to this post [...]

Glenn Switkes, Latin America Program Director for International Rivers Network writes in his blog of two new ways that Brazil is flexing its muscle to force through big dam projects. First, the president’s chief-of-staff and presumed future presidential nominee Dilma Rousseff threatened that if the government does not receive favorable terms from companies planning to [...]

July 8: Ten Ecuadorians were arrested while protesting plans for the private Hidrotambo hydroelectric dam along the Dulcepamba river in Chillanes canton, Bolivar province. The arrests came after a six-month land occupation in opposition to the dam. (Got any more info on this? Let us know! This came only from a brief mention in a [...]

If we needed another reminder that the system cannot be reformed, but instead needs to be taken down….
In a post on his blog, Glenn Switkes, the Latin America Program Director for International Rivers Network, looks at Brazil’s current energy infrastructure boom and concludes that becoming part of the government inevitably corrupts even those with good [...]

A truck belonging to the construction company Peter Kiewit Sons’ was torched on Tuesday, July 22 in response to the company’s involvement in widening the Sea to Sky Highway in unceded Coast Salish territory (illegally occupied by the Canadian government as “British Columbia”).
The highway is being expanded to accommodate increased traffic for the 2010 Winter [...]

A coalition of indigenous, community and labor groups in Bolivia and western Brazil has declared an emergency in response to Brazil’s plans to build the Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex, a series of four dams along the Madeira River in the Amazon.
To date, Bolivia has denied permission for two of the dams, one to be built [...]

The Upper Pitt River — located only 40 miles from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — is threatened by plans for a series of hydropower dams. In response to this threat, the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC named the Upper Pitt the province’s “Most Endangered River of 2008.”
In March 2008, more than 1,000 people packed a [...]

The Nicaraguan government has announced that it will open up the San Cristobal volcano for bidding for the construction of a geothermal plant. San Cristobal is the country’s largest volcano.
According to statements made by President Daniel Ortega and Energy Minister Emilio Rappacioli, Nicaragua plans to build enough new geothermal and hydroelectric (read: big dams) energy [...]

The state of Arizona has received two federal grants for Corridors of the Future-related construction projects.
The first is $1.2 million to widen I-10 in Maricopa County, between Sarival Avenue and Loop 101.
The second is $1.8 million to construct a new bridge across the Colorado River, to provide an alternative to the Hoover Dam crossing. The [...]

Five men have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for each of the 26 indigenous campesinas (peasants) that they massacred in Guatemala in 1982, in order to clear the way for the construction of Chixoy Dam. The sentences will run concurrently, so none of the men will serve more than 30 years.
The men were [...]