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Africa: Concerns About Gibe 3 Dam
Fahamu, 2 February 2012
There is a powerful economic argument for Gibe 3 Dam. But there are also powerful arguments for ensuring that large-scale river-basin development projects provide genuine and ... read more »
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Ethiopia: Gibe III - a Dam Too Far?
Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 20 December 2011
Michael Irgiena doubts if his ten children will ever be fishermen like him, or have any future living on the shores of the world's largest desert lake Turkana in the barren border ... read more »
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Ethiopia: Government Crackdown in Omo Region Intensifies (press release)
Survival International, 3 November 2011
Survival has received disturbing reports of a crackdown on tribal people opposed to Ethiopia's program to remove them from their lands in the Omo region and force them to resettle ... read more »
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Ethiopia: How Ethiopia's Plantations Are Killing Vital Waterway (press release)
Survival International, 28 March 2012
New photographic evidence proves Ethiopia's controversial plantations scheme is killing the Lower Omo River, a lifeline for 100,000 tribal people. read more »
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Ethiopia: New Dam 'Catastrophic' for Kenyan Environment
Inter Press Service, 23 March 2010
Gideon Lepalo describes growing up in Loiyangalani, 20 kilometres from Lake Turkana, as magical. However, he fears the building of Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia, upstream of the ... read more »
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Ethiopia: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
Inter Press Service, 6 February 2010
Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's ... read more »
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Ethiopia: Environmental Group Calls for Investigation on GGIII
Addis Fortune, 3 August 2009
The African Development Bank's (AfDB) independent review mechanism, the Compliance Review and Mediation Unit (CRMU), has accepted a request for project investigation submitted by ... read more »
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Ethiopia: Gilgel Gibe III Hydro Electric Power Project Construction Kicks Off
The Ethiopian Herald, 12 January 2007
The Gilgel Gibe III Hydro Electric power Project envisaged to be executed with 14 billion birr has been launched, according to the project office. read more »
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Ethiopia: EIB Denies Reports that It Won't Finance Gibe III Project
Addis Fortune, 8 June 2009
The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced that it had not taken any formal decision on whether to undertake an appraisal of the Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric generation project ... read more »
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Dear AllAfrica.com manager,
I am not sure, but it looks like that your website stayed fixed on Gibe III dam issue for a while now ( I believe close to two weeks0--all these time in the front page.
Is this coincident or you are paid to propagate just one side of the story for ever!!
If you are out of business and you are no more actual Ethiopian news source; please state so!
Ethics and professional journalism should be the cornerstone of your service. thanks,
Thanks
what about the negative impacts of the recurrent flood that has always been treatening the lives of the indigenous tribes you mentioned? Like other contributions by all anti-Gibe-development campainers, this piece lacks professionalism. It doesn't assess or report positive impacts of the project beyond the 1800 MW energy sought to be produced. For interested readers and even writer of this article, I suggest having a look at the following research work. It employes state-of-the-art tools to assess impacts of the Gibe III project. http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/16/1/2012/hess-16-1-2012.pdf
The author of this article, Patricia Baquero, seems to see this Gibe III hydroelectric project from one angle i.e. Indigenous Peoples' Right. I, as an Environmental & Social Impact assessor myself, understand some of the author's concern. However, the author made a huge gaffe to highlight her argument by saying "this Gibe III Dam will provide power to 400 million people". This claim is dead wrong.
Nonetheless, ESIAs are done to make sure such projects have least side effects on the Environment and Society. No infrastructure project on earth has ZERO Environmental and Social effects. But with the help of ESIA studies damages are minimized. In this case, Gibe III Dam's ESIA study guarantee the project will have a minimum side effect on the environment and society.
Hello, writer of this topic. You mentioned unreasonably that the flooding to the lake will ended.Have forgotten that the plant is hydro electric power(not irrigation)? It is natural to release the water after it hits the turbine and surely the flow of the river will continue steadily the whole year which is more suitable to make irrigatin for dwellers in the down stream. We know well that you are happy to see us suffering from hunger. This is out dated way of thinking. We do not have any other choice beyond utlizing our rivers to eradicate the chronic poverty in Ethiopia. We do not have oil. Our wealth is the green energy-hydropower. This will acccelerate not only the development of Ethiopia but also that of the Eastern part of Africa. God bless my homeland A F R I C A.
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