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• Hudson wrote a new blog post: Tons of Hudson River PCBs Somehow Detoured To Lewiston, NY Instead of Andrews, Texas?   14 hours, 7 minutes ago · View

  Here we go again… Unreal, isn’t it. Looks like some PCBs - whoops, 27 tons of PCBs - may have ended up in Lewiston, New York instead of in Andrews, Texas . Someone took a bit of a wrong turn somewhere, eh? Waste Control Specialists have a facility in Andrews, Texas that has been receiving the toxic sediment [...]

• admin wrote a new blog post: Sesan dam to proceed this year   3 days, 3 hours ago · View

  By Tom Brennan and Sen David for The Phnom Penh Post CAMBODIA’S Royal Group announced yesterday that it would proceed with its Vietnamese partner on a US$700 million hydroelectric plant along the Lower Sesan River, with construction due to start by the end of the year. The 400 megawatt Sesan hydro plant will be located 40 [...]

• Hudson wrote a new blog post: Riverkeeper Captain John Lipscomb Honored With EPA Environmental Quality Award   6 days ago · View

  Ossining, NY - Riverkeeper Patrol Boat Captain John Lipscomb has been honored with an Environmental Quality Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2. Since 2000, Lipscomb has headed Riverkeeper’s boat program, traveling approximately 6,000 nautical miles each year between New York Harbor and Troy to conduct pollution patrols and scientific studies. “I’m so [...]

• Paul Stewart wrote a new blog post: Lancang-Mekong Initiative   1 week, 1 day ago · View

  A foundation for the long term cooperation and prosperity for China and ASEAN by Phạm Phan Long for Viet Ecology Foundation Lancang-Mekong River is the world’s 11th longest river running through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In terms of bio-diversity, Lancang-Mekong is second only after the Amazon. For thousands of years, the river has [...]

• admin wrote a new blog post: Lao Disagrees with Neighbors on Xayaburi Dam   1 week, 3 days ago · View

  International Rivers Decision Delay a Temporary Reprieve for Mekong River Bangkok, Thailand: Government representatives from the four lower Mekong Basin countries agreed today that the decision on the Xayaburi Dam, the first dam proposed for the lower Mekong mainstream, be deferred and elevated to the Ministerial level. According to a press release from the Mekong River Commission [...]

• Paul Stewart wrote a new blog post: Mekong at the crossroads   1 week, 3 days ago · View

  China Dialogue Commotion is growing over a planned dam on the Mekong River. As the deadline for a decision on the project approaches, R Edward Grumbine and Xu Jianchu urge governments to support a construction freeze Into the twenty-first century, the Mekong River has remained one of the world’s last great rivers with only a few dams [...]

• admin wrote a new blog post: Mekong at the crossroads   1 week, 3 days ago · View

  China Dialogue Commotion is growing over a planned dam on the Mekong River. As the deadline for a decision on the project approaches, R Edward Grumbine and Xu Jianchu urge governments to support a construction freeze Into the twenty-first century, the Mekong River has remained one of the world’s last great rivers with only a few dams [...]

• Paul Stewart wrote a new blog post: Nepal Maoists storm Indian hydropower office   1 week, 4 days ago · View

  Press Trust Of India The Maoists in Nepal have stormed a function organised by an Indian hydropower major GMR and demanded the scraping of its project in the western part of the country, alleging it was against the interest of Nepalese. Activists of Unified CPN-Maoist, the largest singly party and the main ally of the ruling [...]

• admin wrote a new blog post: Nepal Maoists storm Indian hydropower office   1 week, 4 days ago · View

  Press Trust Of India The Maoists in Nepal have stormed a function organised by an Indian hydropower major GMR and demanded the scraping of its project in the western part of the country, alleging it was against the interest of Nepalese. Activists of Unified CPN-Maoist, the largest singly party and the main ally of the ruling [...]

• Paul Stewart wrote a new blog post: Shame on the dam builders   1 week, 4 days ago · View

  Op Ed from The Bangkok Post The dispute over whether to build the first hydro-electric dam on our region’s share of the Mekong River has reached an abysmal low point. Governments, businesses and bankers have broken their understanding with Lao residents and civil society. Backers of the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos were to submit plans [...]