About the project and its impacts The Hwange Thermal Power Station is the biggest power plant in Zimbabwe. Facing a shortage of electricity and an unemployment crisis, in 2018 the Zimbabwean government borrowed US$1,2 billion from the Exim Bank of China to finance an...
Pueblo Shuar Arutam
About the project The Santiago Hydroelectric Project, promoted by Ecuador’s state-owned electricity company CELEC EP Hidropaute, represents one of the largest planned energy projects in the country and the third-largest in South America. Designed by Mexico’s Comisión...
Friends with Environment in Development
About the project The Karuma hydropower project is located on the Nile River in Kiryadongo District, Uganda, is one of the largest hydropower dams designed to generate 600 MW of electricity to meet Uganda’s growing energy needs. Construction began in...
Centre de Défense des Droits de l’Homme et Démocratie (CDHD)
Context and project impacts “Companies need more megawatts for mining exploitation. Consequently, the communities are left without electricity.” (CDHD) The Ruashi mine is a joint venture between Metorex Limited (a South Africa-based mining company,...
