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Dozens killed in Burma amid clashes over Chinese dams
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2011
Guardian: Kachin soldiers gather around the body of a comrade they claim was killed in fighting with Burmese government troops near the border with China, in this undated handout photo provided by the US Campaign for Burma. A bloody outbreak of fighting that has ended a 17-year ceasefire between Burmese government forces and a tribal militia was partly caused by the expansion of Chinese hydropower along the Irrawaddy river, conservationists claim.
Dozens of people in northern Burma have reportedly been...
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French analyst cuts EU grain crop views due drought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2011
Reuters: French analyst Strategie Grains on Thursday sharply cut its forecast for this year's grains crops in the European Union due to renewed dry conditions in the Western part of the bloc in May and despite recent rainfall.
Soft wheat saw the largest reduction, at 6 million tonnes, with the estimate of the 2011 crop lowered to 125.6 million tonnes, now 1 percent below last year's 126.6 million tonnes.
"The springtime drought continued throughout May in West Europe, reaching critical levels in many...
Climate change panel in hot water again over ‘biased’ energy report
Posted by Independent: Oliver Wright on June 16th, 2011
Independent: The world's foremost authority on climate change used a Greenpeace campaigner to help write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about renewable energy, The Independent has learnt.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the UN in 1988 to advise governments on the science behind global warming, issued a report last month suggesting renewable sources could provide 77 per cent of the world's energy supply by 2050. But in supporting documents released...
Peru cancels massive dam project after years of protests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2011
Mongabay: Three years of sustained community opposition have brought down plans for a massive dam on the Madre de Dios River in Peru. Yesterday the Peruvian government announced it was terminating the contract with Empresa de Generación Eléctrica Amazonas Sur (Egasur) to build a 1.5 gigawatt dam, known as the Inambari Dam. The dam was one of six that were agreed upon between Peru and Brazil to supply the latter with energy.
"Although this resolution does not prevent the construction of all dams in the Inambari...