from The Guardian [EF! J editors’ note: We are interested in finding information about folks resisting this project but haven’t found any yet. Please share if you do.] The first phase, Inga 3, is being fast-tracked by the government. Eventually the dam will span the vast Congo river, above, and cost $100bn. Photograph: Courtesy of International Rivers The largest dam in the world is set to begin construction within months and could be generating electricity in under five years. But 35,000 people may have to be relocated and it could be built without any environmental or social impact surveys, say critics. The $14bn (£9.5bn) Inga 3 project, the first part of the mega-project, is being fast-tracked by the Democratic Republic of Congo government will span one channel of the vast river Congo at Inga Falls. It involves a large dam and a 4,800MW hydro-electric plant. But subsequent phases, together costing about $100bn, could eventually span the Congo river, the world’s second largest by volume. It is expected to have an electricity-generating capacity of nearly 40,000MW – nearly twice as much as the Three Gorges dam in China or 20 large nuclear power stations. But the long delayed project, whose backers claim […]
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