Gibe III dam | Gov’t responds to International Rivers official’s article
The weekly press release of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded to a recent article from International Rivers official, an organization dedicated to bring a halt to Gibe III dam – a 1,870 MW mega dam on the south-western Ethiopia to be operational by September 2013. The response was published in last Friday issue … Read more
Ethiopia refuses to halt GIBE III dam
Ethiopia will continue to build Gibe III despite different accusations, CEO of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) told the English weekly Addis Fortune. CEO Meheret Debebe made the remark in response to the call by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee ‘to immediately halt all construction on the GIBE III dam’, in its 35th session held … Read more
On Gibe III dam | Ethiopia’s recklessness in the UN Committee proceedings
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee urged Ethiopia ‘to immediately halt all construction on the GIBE III dam’, in its 35th session held from June 19-29. The decision became public when the Committee published its documents by the end of last week and had been re-posted in this blog.(link) The news, however, is so far ignored by … Read more
On Gibe III dam : Weighing the UN Committee’s decision | Ethiopia
It was by the end of last month, a UN Committee urged Ethiopia ‘to immediately halt all construction on the GIBE III dam’. The issue became public at the end of last week, when the Committee’s documents were published on its website. That is ‘the World Heritage Committee’ (aka ‘Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of … Read more
On Gibe III dam: The ‘analysis’ submitted to the Committee [full text]
As previously reported the World Heritage Committee’ of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) passed a decision that asking Ethiopia ‘to immediately halt all construction on the GIBE III dam’ on its 35th session, held from June 19-29/2011 in Paris, France. The decision was posted in this blog (link). For the sake of forthcoming … Read more
Anti Gibe III activist opposes Renaissance dam | Ethiopia
International Rivers said, on its website, today, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam ‘will flood 1,680 square kilometers of forest in northwest Ethiopia.’ It noted further that ‘filling [the dam's] huge reservoir will certainly impact Egypt, which relies almost totally on the Nile for its water supply. Many fear the project could set off a water … Read more
