environmental issues and greenwashing

While renewable energy advocates see hydroelectric facilities as largely beneficial, things get complex when the rivers to be harnessed cross international borders.   Bangladesh and India are now at loggerheads over the latter’s proposed Tipaimukh Dam across the Barak River in Manipur. New Delhi is attempting to assure Dhaka that the Tipaimukh hydroelectric project will not adversely impact Bangladesh, but India’s bland assurances are contradicted by a 2005 study by the Institute of Water...Read Full Story

Bangladesh and India: Tipaimukh Dam And Transparency Our previous report on the damaging aspects of the Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project and protests against it generated much reader response. This post has updates on the situation. Asadul Haque at Haque's Talking describes how this has been a hot debate in Bangladesh recently: The Tipaimukh dam issue currently continues to dominate the domain of political, media, intellectual and civil society’s discourse in Bangladesh with a...Read Full Story

What is the power of a blog? What changes can a blog bring? Do bloggers love their country? What price are they willing to pay for that love? Are they brave enough? I am frustrated. I am frustrated because at this moment I am not being able to do anything but to write. Will writing solve this great problem of ours? Will writing solve any problem of ours? After the project of Farakka Dam , India is starting another similar project which is equally (if not more) dangerous for the ecology and...Read Full Story

Definitively Uncertain. Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report, Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States , and adopted a analytical methodology that will likely satisfy few. At times it's reminiscent of Ron Suskind's description of Vice President Dick Cheney's "one percent doctrine" that asserted that if "a one percent chance" that a threat is real exists "we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. . . It's not about our analysis, or...Read Full Story

http://www.newagebd.com/2009/jun/04/nat.html#2 Tipaimukh dam to destroy ecology: experts Staff Correspondent Commissioning of the planned Tipaimukh dam by India will escalate socio-economic and political tension in India’s north-eastern states and also Bangladesh, and imperil the ecology of the region, green campaigners said. After sounding this note of caution, a leading environmentalist on Wednesday demanded that New Delhi must make public all the documents on the Tipaimukh hydro...Read Full Story