(urgent) Web campaign against Ethiopia Gibe III dam

[Indi Guy]

Source: BBC

...Tewolde Gebre Egziabher, head of Ethiopia's Environmental Protection Authority, told the BBC the project was "very sensible".

"The advantages for the whole country, the local communities around, even for our neighbouring countries - including Kenya -so much more outweigh the 'small problems' that will be caused on an immediate basis but are not long-lasting."

..."Gibe III is the most destructive dam under construction in Africa. The project will condemn half a million of the region's most vulnerable people to hunger and conflict," said Terri Hathaway, director of International Rivers' Africa programme.

The dam would flood a huge area, creating a 150km-long lake and preventing people from planting their crops on the river's flood plains, as they have done for many generations.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8582682.stm

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"...Western donors and banks..." are funding this dam. Any chance that they really have the best interests of the Ethiopian people at heart? :puke:

BBC news didn't provide a link to the petition, but I tracked it down -- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/save-kenyas-lake-turkana

Please kick this along so that the foreign bankers might get their asses kicked for a change; and the Ethiopian people might have their lives, livelihoods and civil liberties protected.