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UN Calls for Suspension of Giant Hydroelectric Dam in Ethiopia
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| Sunday, 31 July 2011 05:24
| Charles Kennedy
Posted on 08/01/2011 7:33:07 PM PDT by _a_0_0_
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:33:10 PM PDT
by
_a_0_0_
To: _a_0_0_
First ban DDT and millions die, now ban power so a poor country cant progress with abundant energy.
Sure seems like the UN hates black people.
To: _a_0_0_
... and Rachel Carson and DDT ... save the birdies but kill the kids. He nailed it with a side slap to the EPA I think.
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:36:41 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
To: _a_0_0_
construction endangered the existence of Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the world.I've heard everything. A dam threatens the existence of a lake?
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:37:24 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
To: _a_0_0_
calling for work to be suspended until the negative impacts of the dam can be assessed.
Vs the negative impacts of being forced to live without electricity, running water, sanitation, irrigation.....
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:38:18 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: _a_0_0_
my god, look at what the liberals are doing now...we have genuinely exported liberalism...
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:38:25 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
To: RaceBannon
Egypt fears it won’t get the same amount of water
as before. The British set the amount of water that Egypt would get from the Nile, back when they ruled both Egypt and the Sudan. Ethiopia had no input in the decision.
Now Ethiopia wants/needs the dam for electrical power;
and both Egypt and Sudan oppose giving up any of “their” share of the Nile.
To: CondorFlight
Ethiopia is one of if not the single oldest continuously Christian country in the world. They need to suffer.
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:42:26 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: _a_0_0_
First to say it...Welcome to FR!
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:42:26 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
To: _a_0_0_
Never stopped FDR’s TVA from destroying MY ‘heritage’.....thousands of acres of my G-Grandfather’s land went under water.
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:44:11 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
To: _a_0_0_
The United Nations has come out in support of critics of Ethiopia's massive Gibe III hydropower project, calling for work to be suspended until the negative impacts of the dam can be assessed. Well, one negative impact is that an impoverished country will be more able to pull itself out of poverty, reducing the ability of agencies like the UN to jerk them around at will.
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:45:33 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: CondorFlight
“Egypt fears it wont get the same amount of water
as before. The British set the amount of water that Egypt would get from the Nile, back when they ruled both Egypt and the Sudan. Ethiopia had no input in the decision.
Now Ethiopia wants/needs the dam for electrical power;
and both Egypt and Sudan oppose giving up any of their share of the Nile.”
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Wiki says Lake Turkana is not part of the Nile watershed. Three rivers: the Omo, Turkwel and Kerio flow into it and there the water evaporates. I believe the dam in question is to be on the Omo river which enters on the Ethiopian side.
If the Omo is damned up maybe the lake will go the way of the Aral Sea.
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:59:37 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: _a_0_0_
Will the Etheopians sell water to their neighbors? Water could become the next oil.
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posted on
08/01/2011 7:59:55 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
To: _a_0_0_
...adding that those who were advocating against hydropower electricity generation were condemning Africa and its people to remain in extreme poverty before concluding, "They are concerned about butterflies' lives, but not human diseases."He understands libs and tree huggers very well.
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:02:14 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: _a_0_0_
...adding that those who were advocating against hydropower electricity generation were condemning Africa and its people to remain in extreme poverty before concluding, "They are concerned about butterflies' lives, but not human diseases."He understands libs and tree huggers very well.
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:02:14 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:02:52 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Migraine
If the lake is downstream from the dam, sure.
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:05:16 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
To: JRios1968
Yep, Africa would be a perfect wilderness for the ecotourists if it wasn’t for all of those darn, pesky Africans living there. Wouldn’t be so bad if they would just live in mud huts and pose for photos, but now they electricity. Next thing they will want cars and air conditioners, and the whole place will be ruined. Damned people.
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:11:21 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
To: Norm Lenhart
Maybe not. The Answan Dam has been an ecological disaster.
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:11:59 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: Hugin
Libs and treehuggers are perfectly fine with leaving others in poverty...
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posted on
08/01/2011 8:14:36 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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