Media Mentions

Opinion piece published by Reuters AlertNet

Opinion piece published in Thailand's The Nation

Julie McCarthy, NPR’s South American correspondent filed this in-depth, detailed and evocative feature about the struggle of the Amazonian Indians to stop the damming of the Xingu River. Her eyewitness report on the Xingu Encounter aired May 31

Listen to Patrick McCully on the award winning NPR show “Living on Earth", as he discusses the failed carbon offset model to slow global warming and misguided dam projects in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Airdate May 23, 2008.

Up to two-thirds of the UN-approved projects do nothing to reduce carbon.

Editorial published in the Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2008

Originally published by Americas Program, Center for International Policy 

Another great video about the event and what's at stake, from the Real News Network.

Carl Middleton, International Rivers' Mekong Program Coordinator, critiques Cambodia's plans to expand electricity production by building nine new hydro electric dams over the next eleven years. He was part of a panel of experts speaking on the subject for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.