Mega Dams and Other Infrastructure
Industrial operations require a vast network of infrastructure: roads, ports, waterways, railways, etc. They cut through forests and communities’ territories in order to transport commodities and minerals to industrial centres. Mega dams, although said to provide “clean energy,” flood forests and generate energy primarily for polluting industries and large urban centres.
Bulletin articles
5 February 2016
Bulletin articles
11 December 2015
Bulletin articles
3 June 2015
The economic model of over-production and consumption directly affects the access of local populations to drinking water as well as their livelihoods. Water, essential to life and considered “sacred” by many traditional peoples, is seized from the territories.
Bulletin articles
4 September 2014
Bulletin articles
4 July 2014
Bulletin articles
4 July 2014
Bulletin articles
4 July 2014