Posted in Dams, Energy, Mining, PPP/IIRSA, Transportation on Jun 5th, 2009
No surprise here: Brazil has approved the environmental permit for the Jirau Dam on the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary. Along with the planned San Antonio Dam, the Jirau forms the 6,450 MW Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex. This complex is intended to supply power for mining, metal processing and agriculture, and to ease river [...]
Chilean Patagonia: International Rivers deployed two large banners at Home Depot’s annual shareholder meeting in Atlanta, GA, USA, on May 28, demanding that the corporation sever ties with the two companies pushing plans to dam 5 rivers in wild Patagonia. Inside the meeting, protesters brought their demands directly to the company’s board. The action came [...]
Posted in Actions, Calls To Action, Dams, Energy on May 27th, 2009
Two activists were arrested at a Home Depot in Glendale, CO, near Denver, after hanging a banner off the building that read, “Dam Home Depot, NOT Patagonia!” Home Depot is under pressure from International Rivers and allies for its ongoing financial involvement with the main Chilean interest promoting 5 dams in Chilean Patagonia. Home Depot [...]
17 people were arrested in three separate anti-coal protests in West Virginia on May 23. In the first, eight people were arrested for hanging a “Never Again” banner and locking down to a dump truck at a mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain. In the second, two were arrested for boating onto the Brushy Fork [...]
Stories of mines and resistance from around the hemisphere: Ecuador: Social movements are preparing for a showdown with President Rafael Correa over a proposed Mining Law, which is due to come up for a final vote in the National Assembly this week. The last few weeks of struggle have been marked by protest and police [...]
Posted in Actions, Dams, Energy, Transportation on Oct 30th, 2008
Three activists accused of carrying out sabotage actions for Galician independence are being tried by the Spanish government: Maria Bagaria is accused of setting fire to trucks being used to build a hydroelectric power station and is facing 3 years in prison; Giana Gomes and Ugio Caamanho are accused of using explosives to destroy an [...]
Roughly 120 members of the indigenous Enawene Nawe tribe seized control of a hydroelectric dam construction site in the Brazilian Amazon (Mato Grosso state) on October 13, burning it to the ground. “They came armed with axes and pieces of wood, banished the employees and later set fire to everything” said construction site coordinator Frederico [...]
This story is a little dated but we only just heard about it and wanted to bring it to you anyway. On Sep. 18, 200 people including indigenous people, fishermen, local residents, environmentalists and members of groups including the American Indian Movement and Rising Tide marched in Portland, OR, to demand the removal of PacifiCorp’s [...]
Excerpted from a Tehran Times article: Electrobras, a Brazilian state-owned [power] company … confirmed the execution of five hydroelectric projects in Peru, which will increase the country’s electricity supply, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) reported on Tuesday. During ExpoPerú 2008, an investment promotion event held in Sao Paulo, the Peruvian minister of energy [...]
On September 3, Guerrero state police arrested a prominent opponent of La Parota dam on an expired arrest warrant and held him for 20 hours, in the latest example of the government’s determination to impose the dam by force. In 2004, Jacinto Solís Vázquez and 6 other members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities [...]