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Ethiopia - Latest EIA of planned major hydroelectric project in the Lower Omo Basin still ignores its destructive effect on 200,000 indigenous people

5 January, 2009

An academic analysis of the 2008 'Additional Study on Downstream Impact' of the planned Gibe III hydroelectric project finds that this latest Environmental Impact Assessment 'rests on a series of faulty premises' with potentially devastating effects in the region where Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya intersect.
Africa Resources Working Group (ARWG) - ARWG-GIBE.org