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Intercontinental Cry: Having fought tirelessly against the unlawful Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam, the indigenous Ngäbe communities on the banks of Panama’s Tabasará river are today threatened with forced eviction at the hands of Panama’s notoriously brutal security forces.
The 29 MW dam, built by a Honduran-owned energy company, Genisa, received funding from three development banks: the Dutch FMO, the German DEG, and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CBIE). The project was approved by the Panamanian......
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Illegal dam threatens to flood Ngäbe territory; Panama planning forcible eviction
Posted by Intercontinental Cry: Richard Arghiris on February 17th, 2014
Posted in Water Conservation