NO DAMS WILL BE

Less commercial traffic puts Allegheny locks, dams low on priority list

Officials say the river’s locks and dams receive less federal money than others because they are not used much by commercial marine vessels, compared to other waterways regionally and nationally. (News Source: Valley News Dispatch - 14:02:19)

Flooding kills at least 100 in Philippines

The death toll from flooding in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana climbed to at least 100 on Monday, disaster officials said. (News Source: CNN - 09:05:35)

Musconetcong River being restored, dams removed

It’s a stretch of the Musconetcong River few people see. A murky lake the size of a football field, deep with sediment and riddled with long plumes of algae, spills over a 30-foot dam into a gorgeous, wild stretch of river. (News Source: Daily Record - 08:14:05)

Lori Pottinger: The Wrong Climate for Big Dams in Africa

Diversifying Africa’s energy sector would help its climate-adaptation efforts in key ways: it would de-emphasize reliance on erratic rainfall for electricity, reduce conflict over water resources, and protect river-based ecosystems. (News Source: The Huffington Post - 22:11:20)

What Have We Done to Democracy?

The question here, really, is what have we done to democracy? What have we turned it into? What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? Is it possible to reverse this process? Asks Arundhati Roy . (News Source: Middle East Online - 09:37:33)

I don’t think people here

In reply to The Ads Are About To Get Worse : I don’t think people here realise just how dire the situation is getting in terms of Australia’s domestic peak load power generation capacity. From well before the run up to the last election - indeed for almost 10 years, in truth there has been zero investment in the expansion of that capacity. This is because we have had, and still have governments … (News Source: New Matilda - 06:15:05)

Washington proposes single barbless hooks for Columbia

Washington fisheries officials are about to deliver a bombshell on Columbia River anglers, proposing single barbless hooks be required for salmon and steelhead angling as far upstream as McNary Dam. (News Source: The Daily News - 06:45:50)

Dozens dead as flooding engulfs Manila

Downpours subsided temporarily in the Philippines on Sunday, a day after Tropical Storm Ketsana pummeled the capital Manila with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years. (News Source: CNN - 20:53:27)

Local News

The British construction company that helped to build two dams in Burma has been condemned by human rights campaigners amid reports that the projects led to the forced relocation of villagers. (News Source: u.tv - 23:40:33)

  Drew Hutton        Mary River