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Dear netters,
I don't really understand why some Ethiopians are against the development of our God given resources for the benefit of the country. Most of the so-called foreign experts and organizations such as International Rivers of California are lobbysts who do the dirty job of our number one enemy, Egypt. They emphasize on the negative impacts of the project without highlighting the benefits. They accuse the government for not carrying out Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to construction commencement. Personally, with limited knowledge in the field of water resources and environmental studies, I don't buy their story. How in the hell someone would dare to invest about 5 billion dollars without conducting an EIA? This is the cardinal of the project evaluation process. I wish the authorities could publish the EIA report for public consumption. At the same time, I understand their reservation for avoiding the unwarranted accusations and blackmailings from these vultures in the name of indigenous tribes and "democracy in Egypt."

Yes massive development indeed. DR.Almariam where are you? I am sure you will be hanging up yourself when you heard this kind of a wonderful useful news.

Yeha

I'm glade to see they are going forward with this project because it's not affecting the environment as the matter of fact this dam will benefit Sudan and Egypt from over flood related disaster. And it's win win situation for everyone.
God Bless Ethiopia

why are you saying controversial?
Are you supporting the Egyptains? or you are supporting Isayas who wishs Ethiopia to go bancrapt?.
Ther is no controversial here. Just we the ethiopians are redy to support our selves regardless your empty negative prpaganda.
The building of the dam has alrady started long time a go, here you are talking as if it will be started whenver....Pleaas stop your negative dreaming against ethiopia.

Who is going to trust a corrupted beggers weyannes and their
Looting project. First bring all the money you and your wife stolen from ethiopia. It is estimated that 4,5billion dollar is stached by weyannes Laibba in europe and asiea.

"At the beginning of the twentieth century around 420,000 square kilometres (35% of Ethiopia's land) was covered by trees but recent research indicates that forest cover is now less than 14.2%, infact as little as 4% due to population growth. The Ethiopian people use trees for lumber for construction, and to fuel their cooking fires."...now why do you the so called inviromentalists want this trend to continue if you really care about the invironment?.

Well done Ethiopia

WAs you know we Ethiopians are very poor, can you please allow us to service as humans. What is your problem we are not able to reach to the development where you are reach, in other words Ethiopians are only hopping to eat there daily bread. You experts do you belive in God (that is what you write on the dollar) if you truly belive in God please leave us alone, let us do what ever we want to do in our country. For your information you teach few Ethiopia'n and gave them PHD and shape them to stand aganist there own mother land. God will pay you very soon.

The writer said "The potential has not been lost on the Ethiopian government. According to environmental group International Rivers, Ethiopia has more than 20 dams that are either currently operating or under construction–more than any other African nation."

Thank you EPRDF!

Barberic Meles destroyed a Dam which is built by President Mengistu, now Meles is in a new drama of building Abay dam to shift the attention of current public uprising pressure. Surprising creature Meles also ordred 200 Tanks that used for the construction..... while 9 millions of Ethiopian people is under severe hunger. 20 years ago Meles vaguely promised to change ammunition factories in to machinary tools processing,,,Surprising creature chimpazee Meles, see his picture on Utube while he has been lying...K!KKKKK

Hey You ( Wh. beach- the so called "intelectual Jo")before you open your brain mouse regarding Ethiopia and Ethiopians do your homework.To start with here is Eth101 for you---Title:Endegena-Ethiopian Documentary (www.waltainfo.com)

According to the Nation Geographic Magazine, “the country’s dams have been linked to the controversial government practice of "land grabs."

“The Ethiopian government, which owns all land in the country, has been pushing tribal people off their ancestral lands and is leasing large tracts of land to foreign interests, critics say.”

"The government has already initiated extensive agricultural irrigation schemes . . . for private corporations and the government, forcing large numbers of the indigenous population out of these agricultural and livestock grazing lands," said Claudia Carr, a professor of international rural resource development at the University of California, Berkeley.”

Ethiopians want to use the river water for their farming and irrigation.

We didn’t want Meles to build dam or to push away indigenous people out of their land just to grab their land!!

Diasporas!
Don’t kill your people by participating in this criminal Meles scheme?
Your money is tainted with blood!

International rivers would gladly scarify a human being to save a hippopotamus and or crocodile. It is sad while they sit and criticize what this poor county is doing they have no ideas or interest in alleviating the misfortune of 85 million people, who are stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty and famine. They spend thousands of dollars trying to lobby world organizations not to help a country develop. They wanted to “preserve" the livelihood of an indigenous community who are somehow better off without a hint of civilizations, shoes are overrated anyways and who needs medicine and schools and or perhaps what would the California based international rivers staff visit to get away from their hectic life styles.

The fact of the matter is Ethiopia is tired of the same all same. We have been around 2 thousand years, we let those rivers flow an uninterrupted for eternity, and look where we are now. The rest of the world including the United states has done what we are doing now hundred years ago, well including " displacing some indigenous people" and look where this country is today. So it is time for Ethiopia to take some chances and make some drastic changes and if it doesn't work we won't be any worse than we already are.
So if you can help as we will forever in debt to you if you don't want to help us at least live us alone.
Thanks

We Ethiopians shall roll our sleeves, forward our potential(expertise & money etc...) towards the fulfilment of this grand millenium plan regardless of our political divide.Else history will forever judge us, inept.Remember this has nothing to do with pm x or engineer y business.It is Ethiopian and always remain Ethiopian issue for earnest.Any one who say otherwise must be only a "BASTARD" period!!!

That is what I wanted to see. Keep up the good works.Long live Ethiopia

What makes the project suspicious is that the Government sudden announcment which as many said was used to manipulate and divert the real situation in the country. The propganda of the Government through the usual controlled media is unbearable. It is also sad force is used even elementry school children are forced to buy bonds. Had it been geniunely for the benefit of the nation, any one who call himself Ethiopian should be behind it. As all knows, the woyane design of mislead and divert the public for their own hidden cause of ruling the country is to be observed. Meles has always vicious plan as long as it prolong his days in power.

Yea that is one step forward achieving the millennium goal. Yes the country is desperate to put over poverty, so seek foreign investment, expertise idea, and peace. National Geography Magazine has shown possibly calamity of the project. I hop the people who advancing the project have better idea than the publisher. But there is one thing is true, that is the country is in rapid growing path and should met the power demand

Perpetuation of Anti- Ethiopian Propaganda in disguise of conservation and environmental protection.

During the climax of the cold War in 1980s hunger was used by western governments to curtail the Soviet influence in Africa. The military junta in Addis Ababa was then considered an arch enemy of western Iterest in Africa and the Middle East.
At that time everybody in the west eched that the famine in the Sahelian zoons of Africa especially in Ethiopia was caused by the absence of a democratic government.
The patron of apatheid system in Southern Africa the late Mr Ronald Regean and Margaret Thatcher were weeping croocodile tears over the famine in Ethiopia. Thatcher sent two Royal air force reconnassance jets to Addis Ababa. The Us trustful satelite state West Germany has also participated by sending two air force jets. People in western countries overflowed western metropolies to open air shows organized by Band Aid, Fashion Aid, Sport Aid, USA for Africa etc. etc.
Western intellegence services have intensified drastically their covert operation in the name of human rights and food aid. All kindes of secessionists and anti- Ethiopian so called liberation fronts in the North and the East were supported and orginized from the Sudan and Somalia respectively.
The independent existance of the Ethiopian state was and is a nuisance for bigoted European racists and colonial aspirants. A secret plan was made to destroy the army, which was the largest and well armed in Africa. It was then regarded as a comminist threat to Anglo-American and Zionist interest in the Horn of Africa. It has also been planned that Ethiopia disposses its natural entrance to the Red sea coastal regions.
After the collapse of " communism" in eastern Europe many satelite states in Africa changed their alliance. In Ethiopia their proxy warriors, TPLF and EPLF were installed by the great bleesing of Washington and London.
Thereafter, a Bantustan apartheid etnic federalis was established. TPLF puppet regime in Addis Ababa is the darling child of the International doner community ever since Mengistu fled to Zimbawae.
For the last 20 years westerns are dumping their higly subsidized surplus agricultural GM Products in Ethiopia. The west is sowing the seeds of famine in the Horn of Africa. At the same time the fertile land of Ethiopia is leased for foreigners from Arabia, India, USA, Europe, Korea , China, etc.
Western NGOs in collaboration with with FAO, WHO, WFP and agribusiness conglomerates are on the mission to destroy the Ethiopian peasantry.

Especially some western Orginizations such as International Rivers, International Survival based in California and London respectively are propagating anti- dam construction in Ethiopia. They want to keep Ethiopians in darkness. The differnt ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia and the people along the Nile basin should be kept in their lowest state of development so that white tourists and pseudo antroplogists, ethnographysts, lingusts etc. can get happyness.
Why the International River does not campaign against the 75000 big and small dams in the USA?
We Ethiopians are the master of our natural resorces. So leave us alone.
Stop meddling in the affairs of Ethiopia.

Down with NGOs such as International Rivers and IS!!!!!!
Down with TPLF banda
Viva Ethiopia!!!!!!!

Zurga
The great
Jole Sebeta

They wish to stop any hydroelectric and irrigation projects in Ethiopia.

No matter what, the people of Ethiopia and government are determined to put the rivers to good use of the country. We would rather fight our enemies to the bitter end rather than die again and again due to lack of food. A country blessed by God with resources must not be condamned to abject perpetuating poverity due to lack of education of its people, bad governance and/or foreign intervention in the business of the country. Ethiopia is now set to develop and the recipe for development is being put in place. No reason or interference of any power in the world will stop our peoples' desire to defeat backwardness to improve their life. We do not care about the writer's claim of the effects of the dams on the enviroment. If the writer had the spine to preach us about his claim on the enviroment he should have considered that facts why Ethiopia had suffered from recurring draught and famine for forty odd years causing death and suffering to its people. It has been well established that the change in the enviroment has been brought about by industrialisation and greed of the West. It looks like that he is happy to see the continuation of the misery of the people of Ethiopia and to send them handout for their survival. Thank you and your likes for giving us life saving and sustaining handouts but we will not need it any more. We are blessed people with everything and there is no reason why we cannot feed our selves if we educate our people. As the President of South Korea recently informed the the Addis Ababa University community recently his country's transformation was made possible by educating the Korean people. He has confirmed that Ethiopia's transformation has started with the right recipe of expanding education and infrastructure. We should continue to change our resources to our good use and regain Ethiopia's fame and prosperity in the near fture. We realise the outsiders' attempts to make the country weak and ungovernable so that they safe-guard their interest at our expense, as usual. The time is for Ethiopia and no one including the so called super power will not succeed to divert the attention of people from development.

Viva Ethiopia

That should be an honest commitment. I hope this will not be a political drama. I fully support the project. We need to see along the environmental ramification as well.
Let us do it.

mekdela,

You are right. It was no where to be found in the so called "five years plan" that was supposed to bring Ethiopia to "middle income country." It was fabricated and hastly brought out to the front as yet another drama to divert the attention of Ethiopians away from an Arab Spring type revolt. This is a regime that came out of a regional, keffafay, racist background. Every single thing it has done since ascending to power has been either to keep a handful of looter's stranglehold on the economy of the country (i.e. sucking the blood of Ethiopians thru Midroc/Effort etc) or to marginalize and disinfranchise the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians in the land of their ancestors.

This is the time to do our business when our enemies are in chaos.
God bless Ethiopia already cursed Eritrea