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China may shelve controversial Myitsone dam in exchange for other interests in Myanmar

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China may shelve controversial Myitsone dam in exchange for other interests in Myanmar
Ethnic Kachin people visit Myitsone, the confluence of the Mali and Nmai rivers, outside Myitkyina, Myanmar, on March 30. | REUTERS

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Reuters, Apr 6, 2017

NAYPYITAW, MYANMAR – China has shifted its position in a lengthy dispute with Myanmar over the building of a $3.6 billion dam, seven sources said, signaling its willingness to abandon the project in exchange for other economic and strategic opportunities in Myanmar.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw will discuss a potential deal on the massive Myitsone dam during a trip to China beginning on Thursday, two senior Myanmar officials and a person familiar with the matter said. Tiếp tục đọc “China may shelve controversial Myitsone dam in exchange for other interests in Myanmar” →

China’s Influence on Hydropower Development in the Lancang River and Lower Mekong River Basin

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CGIAR (consultative Group in Agriculture Research)

Read and download:China’s Influence on Hydropower Development in the Lancang River and Lower Mekong River Basin

Link to Mekong Hydropwer Map and Portal

Series of “State of knowledge” on Mekong:

1. The Impact of Dams on the Mekong
2. Mekong sediment basics
3. Corporate social responsibility in Mekong hydropower development
4. China’s Influence on Hydropower Development in the Lancang River and Lower Mekong River Basin

 

Corporate social responsibility in Mekong hydropower development

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CGIAR (Consultative Group in Agriculture Research)

Read and Download:Corporate social responsibility in Mekong hydropower development

Link to Mekong Hydropwer Map and Portal

Series of “State of knowledge” on Mekong:

1. The Impact of Dams on the Mekong
2. Mekong sediment basics
3. Corporate social responsibility in Mekong hydropower development
4. China’s Influence on Hydropower Development in the Lancang River and Lower Mekong River Basin

 

Mekong sediment basics

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CGIAR (Cnsultative Group in Agriculture Research)

Read and download:Mekong sediment basics

Link to Mekong Hydropwer Map and Portal

Series of “State of knowledge” on Mekong:

1. The Impact of Dams on the Mekong
2. Mekong sediment basics
3. Corporate social responsibility in Mekong hydropower development
4. China’s Influence on Hydropower Development in the Lancang River and Lower Mekong River Basin

 

The Impact of Dams on the Mekong

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CGIAR (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)

Read and Download: The Impact of Dams on the Mekong

Link to Mekong Hydropwer Map and Portal

Series of “State of knowledge” on Mekong:

1. The Impact of Dams on the Mekong
2. Mekong sediment basics
3. Corporate social responsibility in Mekong hydropower development
4. China’s Influence on Hydropower Development in the Lancang River and Lower Mekong River Basin

From dams to basins: mapping across scales

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Hanoi needs long-term solutions for garbage collection

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In rural areas, garbage collection is done by self-managed units in hamlets and communes. Garbage is collected from residential quarters, gathered in certain places and then carried to the city’s concentrated treatment plants.Since there are not enough dumpers, garbage cannot be collected in the right way and the collection time is erratic. Garbage is often left in residential quarters. In most cases, garbage is only collected once every 2-3 days, or 10 days. The places where garbage are gathered are within residential quarters, but the rubbish is not covered in a hygienic way. Tiếp tục đọc “Hanoi needs long-term solutions for garbage collection” →

Certifying Vietnam’s timber plantations would help smallholders profit from lucrative export market

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BOGOR, Indonesia (21 November, 2012)_If Vietnam wants its timber producers to benefit from the growing “eco-conscious” and more lucrative international furniture market, national forest institutions should look for ways to get plantation forests certified, said Louis Putzel, a senior scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
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BOGOR, Indonesia (21 November, 2012)_If Vietnam wants its timber producers to benefit from the growing eco-conscious and more lucrative international furniture market, national forest institutions should look for ways to get smallholder plantation forests certified, said Louis Putzel, a senior scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Eco-certification may become more important as countries start putting in place import restrictions, with the European Union ruling it will ban illegally harvested wood from entering its market as of March 2013. Tiếp tục đọc “Certifying Vietnam’s timber plantations would help smallholders profit from lucrative export market” →

Monsanto’s Superfund Secret

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DISSENT Magazine

Monsanto elemental phosphorous plant, Soda Springs, Idaho (Kevin Beebe / Flickr)

The world’s most widely used herbicide, Roundup, has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks, since documents surfaced revealing a close relationship between Monsanto, the creator of Roundup, and EPA officials tasked with regulating herbicide use in the United States. One email exchange included a Monsanto executive boasting that an EPA official had told him he “should get a medal” if he could “kill” an agency investigation into the herbicide.Ư

This news was troubling, considering the fact that the World Health Organization recently declared Roundup’s active ingredient “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The 2015 WHO announcement raised major alarms because roughly 89 percent of American corn and over 90 percent of all soybeans produced in the United States—millions of tons of which are exported every year to dozens of countries around the world—are genetically engineered to be herbicide resistant, Roundup Ready being a preferred variety. These findings gave new scientific fodder to many GMO opponents who have long alleged that the world’s food supply is awash in dangerous chemicals. Tiếp tục đọc “Monsanto’s Superfund Secret” →

Những người đắm đuối vì voọc Sơn Trà

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  • 03.04.2017, 11:32

TTCT – Rừng, động vật của Việt Nam sao phải để các tổ chức nước ngoài tài trợ bảo tồn? Sao người Việt không làm điều đó? 

Bùi Văn TuấnNhững câu hỏi ấy đã thôi thúc một nhóm thanh niên và câu chuyện duyên nợ với voọc Sơn Trà của Trung tâm bảo tồn đa dạng sinh học Nước Việt Xanh (GreenViet) bắt đầu.

Căn nhà hai tầng chật chội ở đường Thành Vinh 1, nằm sát chân núi Sơn Trà, là nơi làm việc của hơn 10 người thuộc GreenViet đã hơn năm năm nay. Tiếp tục đọc “Những người đắm đuối vì voọc Sơn Trà” →

Ministry to inspect deforestation in Phu Yen

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Last update 16:14 | 05/04/2017

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has decided to establish a team to inspect the use of forest land for other purposes in Phu Yen Province.

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Trees are chopped down to pave the way for a cow raising project. – Photo dantri.com.vn

The team with six members, led by Doan Hai Nam, deputy head of the Forest Protection Department under the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry, will work in 30 days.

The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, project owners and related units will be scrutinised. Tiếp tục đọc “Ministry to inspect deforestation in Phu Yen” →

Vietnam proposes drastically increasing ‘environment tax’ on petrol

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 04/05/2017 13:00 GMT + 7

A woman refills her motorbike at a gasoline station in Ho Chi Minh City.
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The Vietnamese government is drafting an amendment to the law on environmental protection tax, which includes a proposal to more than double the current tax on gasoline.

The bill, prepared by the Ministry of Finance, suggests lifting the maximum environmental protection tax on gasoline to VND8,000 per liter from the current VND3,000.

Higher tax rates for other fuel products, such as diesel and fuel oil, are also proposed in the draft amendment.

The finance ministry is scheduled to collect feedback for the bill in April and submit a final draft to government in May. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam proposes drastically increasing ‘environment tax’ on petrol” →

Indonesians take ‘concrete stand’ against cement plant

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AL JAZEERA

Farmers in Indonesia are resorting to extreme measures of protest to show the government how the construction of a cement factory will paralyse their lives.

Sticking their feet in cement and thus unable to move for days, the women behind the rallies are called the Kartinis of Kendeng – named after Indonesia’s most famous female fighter for women’s rights, Raden Adjeng Kartini.

The women say that cement factories built in the Karst Mountains in central Java will ruin their land and pollute their water-supply and irrigation systems.

“I will fight to my last drop of blood because our ancestors fought for this land for hundreds of years, and that’s why we now can enjoy the water and the fruits from this land,” Sukinah, a protest leader, said.

“We won’t allow it to disappear like that.”

Women say cement factories built in Karst Mountains will ruin their land [Bagus Indahono/EPA]

Kendeng Mountain is a part of the Karst Mountains that contains not only springs and underground rivers but also chalk that is used in the production of cement.

While smaller companies have been mining here for years, now larger ones are coming.

But the legal battle is ongoing.

READ MORE: Indonesian tribes rally for land rights

One factory was due to start production last November, until the Supreme Court revoked its permit, saying the company’s environmental programme was unclear.

The state governor re-issued the permit after PT Semen Indonesia nearly halved the area it planned to mine. Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesians take ‘concrete stand’ against cement plant” →

Anger burns on Vietnam’s poisoned coast a year after spill

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  • Posted 04 Apr 2017 14:20
  • Updated 04 Apr 2017 15:45

Fish which an employee says are contaminated and decomposed are pictured at a frozen food storage facility in Vietnam’s central Ha Tinh province April 1, 2017. Photo taken April 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kham

QUANG TRI, Vietnam: “The big fish are all dead,” complained 50 year-old Mai Xuan Hoa, picking small fish from a net as he tried to rebuild his livelihood a year after Vietnam’s worst environmental disaster.

Sea life began washing up on April 6, 2016 near a steel plant being developed by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corp . Within weeks, more than 200 km (125 miles) of coast had been sullied by the accidental release of chemicals including cyanide, phenols and iron hydroxide. Tiếp tục đọc “Anger burns on Vietnam’s poisoned coast a year after spill” →