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Ethiopia's Mega-dam strategy aims to boost energy 15-fold in 10 years

03/26/10

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Ethiopia's Mega-dam strategy aims to boost energy 15-fold in 10 years

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Ethiopia's rush to build mega dams sparks protests

• Protesters start online petition to stop Omo river dam
• Mega-dam strategy aims to boost energy 15-fold in 10 years

At the foot of a towering gorge slicing through southern Ethiopia the Omo river suddenly disappears into a tunnel bored into the rockface. Excavators claw at the soil and stone in the exposed riverbed beyond, where a giant concrete wall will soon appear in the ravine.

At 243 metres the Gibe III dam will be the highest on the continent, a controversial centrepiece of Ethiopia's extraordinary multibillion-pound hydroelectric boom.

The country that prides itself as "The Water Tower of Africa" plans to end an energy shortage by building a network of mega dams on the web of rivers that tumble down from its highlands.

By 2020, with the help of Italian and Chinese construction firms, Ethiopia will, it hopes, have increased its power generation capacity 15-fold and become a significant exporter of electricity to the region.

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msg Comment from: TenkirCochran [Visitor]
Great News. The investment in building DAMS will not only expedite the development of the nation by increasing the availability of power but also generate hard currency as an export commodity. I LOVE THIS KIND OF NEWS ABOUT ETHIOPIA. WHETHER WE LIKE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT OR NOT--ETHIOPIA'S REBIRTH SEEMS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. WHY NOT BE A POSITIVE PARTNER IN ETHIOPIA'S REBIRTH...
1. BIGGEST ECONOMY IN EAST AFRICA AND 10TH IN AFRICA.
2. 5TH HIGHEST GROWING ECONOMY IN THE YEAR 2010---THE ECONOMIST.
3. THE TOP THREE DESTINATION FOR CHINESE AND INDIAN INVESTMENTS IN AFRICA--

LET US GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE...
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 02:46

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msg Comment from: Cobra. [Visitor]
We do what we want. F"£$%* the so called Environmentalist. U CAN NOT TELLS US WHAT TO DO. We'll do it on our way.

Cobra
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 03:40

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msg Comment from: c´moi senait [Visitor]
Oh,,,Westerns! The time for colonial era is OVER. Get over it . We do not NEED you any more in Africa couse we have NOW CHINA.
China has build and still builing in less than 10 years more than the Western Colonial Parasites did for the past 200 years. Afica has woken and no more Colonialisem.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 04:14

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msg Comment from: Extraterrestrial [Visitor]
Yes, our water is our oil and "a giant 2,100MW project on the Blue Nile" is an exciting news. Long live Ethiopia and the ambitious leadership of Meles Zenawi.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 04:51

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msg Comment from: Tesfa [Visitor]
Down the Omo river, kenya is producing clean energy from wind turbines.your hope of exporting power is an ill planed idea. is that an idea from the all-I know crime minister. You can produce as much clean energy without destrying your pristine environment. stay away from old technology. No one in the world is building a dam. wake up and look to the new Chinese/Indian technology on wind and Solar energy.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 05:17

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msg Comment from: Tesfa [Visitor]
by the way...is this a propaganda for some thing that will happen in 2010???
oh yes the colonial masters ..the Italians were famous for building a dam in ethiopia.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 05:20

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msg Comment from: hammere [Visitor]
Tesfa,
I knew who and from where you are. You are from the cursed land of Eritrea - the pieces of Ethiopia. An Ethiopian never oppses this project.
Even Elias Kifle supported the project. Only shaebyans do not.
akat ras wita kezih
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 06:40

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msg Comment from: yitbarek [Visitor]
Hello fellow Ethiopians,

I kindly ask you to sign a petition to stop the campaign against the Gibe III dam project. It takes just one minute. Please follow this URL

http://www.petitiononline.com/GibeIII/petition.html

Ethiopia forever!
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 06:50

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msg Comment from: Shene Butta [Visitor]
We will walk and we will climb the Mounten of darkness untill we get to the land of light, and their will not be a read light to stop Ethiopia to get our nation out of darkness,we need to see more to the East and turn our back to the West,your Excelency our leader Mr Meles Democracy could wait for the time being,and work hard for the light we
desperately need.
God bless Ethiopia
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 07:36

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msg Comment from: c´moi senait [Visitor]
Yetbarek. (a shabia dog)

Your dream is to distroy and see ethiopian in missery coused you are CLONED egyptian PIG who is programmed to be a cancer to ethiopia. YOUR slave parents has thouth you this the day you were CLONED as a NEW BARRIIIYA.
We will build the dam with or without western help. That will kill your slave cloned heart and turn you to MADNESS.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 08:32

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msg Comment from: zi [Visitor]
yitbarek

i will sign the petition.

c moi senait, the petition is " to stop the campaign AGAINST gibe 3.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 08:52

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msg Comment from: High_Times [Visitor]
ha ha ha ha ... i just visted the web site and only has 36 signatures (probably yitbarek signed it 36 times) ... bro, I'll hang myself before I sign this CRACKERS patition
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 09:49

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msg Comment from: yophtae [Visitor]
c"moi senait
un fortunatly you misunderstand his point.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 10:28

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msg Comment from: Tefera [Visitor]
i am just glad to read this statement about ethiopia.
..
"But the pace and scale of the hydro projects have alarmed environmental groups, who say proper impact assessment studies are not being carried out."
who knew:).

c'moi i like your passion, but you were wrong about the petition. it is pro gibe3 project.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 10:38

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msg Comment from: ethiopian kid [Visitor]
There are few things I disagree with the TPLF such as issues with Assab and Article 39.

But we should support the TPLF in all their efforts in developing Ethiopia. I just came back from Ethiopia and there is no question the country is changing for the better. All those who truly love their mother land as much as I do should not be blind enough and go with people who wish us ill. We need all the hydro dams that can be built. I do not care who builds them and where the money is coming from. These dams are going to make Ethiopia and its people all better.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 11:20

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msg Comment from: Aba-Jiffar [Visitor]
How about we Diaspora Ethiopians contributing money for the Gibe III project instead of waiting from west fund. It is possible if we really want to see our country stand strong on the face of discrimination by World Bank.

PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 12:14

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msg Comment from: Arsi [Visitor]
Good news!
Let us leave tribal thought as even one tribe could break in to another multi localized tribe!

common wheather you are supporter or against the poletics be one when it comes to development news!

You are always crying for nothing but people are suffering.." Our main problem is not democracy..but..hunger".."illiteracy."
I can understad most of you at abroad couldnot see this fact as atleast you can eat three times!

Allah bless Ethiopia



PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 12:23

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msg Comment from: Aman [Visitor]
Why doesn't the government campaign for donations from diaspora Ethiopians. I don't appreciate their politics but we have see enough of these bushti western organizations who want to keep Africa "as the dark continent". We can do it brothers and sisters. I am a student but I can stop my coffee for a full month and contribute $50.00. And imagine if every one contributed what they can...
Lets do it....
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 12:58

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msg Comment from: alex [Visitor]
Dumb Europeans poluted the earth for 200 years to get where they are now. Who are they to tell us what to do?
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msg Comment from: Adenagir [Visitor]
I am waiting for c´moi senait's apology to Yitbarek for her misguided wording!!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 13:31

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msg Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
What a jock ,Peoples are starving others are suffering of the lack of electric power and clean water services ,and TPLF bandits are propagating their daily lies and propagandas .Do these bandits mean that candle light used by Addis and other cities resident is the Mega Dams electrical Power .
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 13:56

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msg Comment from: Alula [Visitor]
Who are these environmental rights group? Are you kidding me? They want us to sacrifice our economic development (85 million people) for the sake of some indigenous people who will be beneficiary of the construction dam? This people are hypocritical and they don't want the indigenous people to develop. They want them to remain where they are. This is really really sick and Ethiopia will use any means to construct the dam. You are coming on our economic and social sovereignty and we will see what the fuck u r going to do to us.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 14:26

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msg Comment from: visitor [Visitor]
c´moi senait [Visitor]
Did you forget your pills again?

a pill + reading glass do wonders if you know what I mean.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 14:31

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msg Comment from: hammere [Visitor]
c´moi senait,

I used to believe that you can understand English well. You have to apologize to Yitbarek. He is asking for a petition to stop the those who oppose to the dam construction. Please find Yitbarek and give him SOMETHING in compensation.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 15:08

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msg Comment from: teddy [Visitor]
As it has mentioned on the paper "Ethiopia is the water tower of Africa" ,but we have never explioted our natural resources because of different reasons.We have to be happy when the government try to do something good for the future of the country.EPRDF will not lead the country forever when they leave the power they will not take the power plant with them.Let me put an example,Derg built Melka Wakena haydro power plant when the Derg toppled down the Melka Wakena still generate electricity for the people.Anybody can hate this government while they try to do something good we have to appreciate the effort.Forget about the so called environmetalists,they are fear mongers, they cry for nothing unless they have some hidden agenda.We should not be fouled with these people.Let's all Ethiopians sign the
petition. http://www.petitiononline.com/GibeIII/petition.html
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 16:54

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msg Comment from: The Abissinian [Visitor]
Import electric cars now ppl. I bet you even if this leba gov't make you feel Ethiopia is a no go area, we should go and make these hodams spit what they are about swallow. We will fight weyanne who is trying to take credit for the economic growth. If the country prosper, it is bcs ethiopians got relative peace. Now no Eritrea (thank god fo that). Weyanne's turn soon. Then after, our country will revive. Hope & Believe.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 18:19

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msg Comment from: mihret [Visitor]
hammere , i think u are starting to thing like meles yourself!... the idea of "if they don't think like me... they are against me or they are enemy!" get over your self. no one have to have the same idea with you... or with me. so STOP doing and being what you are!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 18:39

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msg Comment from: yitbarek [Visitor]
Selam Ethiopians, please give your support for Gibe III dam. http://www.petitiononline.com/GibeIII/petition.html
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 19:05

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msg Comment from: dude [Visitor]
ግፋ በለዉ

ገንዘብ ያለዉ በገንዘቡ፣አቅም ያለዉ በአቅሙ፣የተማረ በጭንቅላቱ፣የደከመ በፀሎቱ ለሀገር ለወገን ለልማትና ብልፅግና በርትተን እንነሳ
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 19:39

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msg Comment from: motti [Visitor]
The enviromentalists ????????? kkkkk
Don't exercise your hiden polatical and raciest agenda under the name of Enviroment. Go and tell your leaders to cut billion and billion tons of polluted gases injected in our atmospher. If you have moral background to call yourself "Environmentalist ???" do what should be done first. Then you will preach about our Environment. No mattet what obstacles and shortge of money is there, no one can't stop us to make the BIGGEST DAM A REALITYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 20:16

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msg Comment from: sirak [Visitor]
Pls support Gibe III

http://www.petitiononline.com/GibeIII/


Yitbark, thanks for creating this petition.

ኢትዮጲያ አገራችን ለዘላለም ኑሪ!
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 21:22

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msg Comment from: EthioMAN [Visitor]
The invironmentalists are not to be taken lightly nor are they stupid. These are the same people who have brought the fight on climate change to where it is today. We should show respect where due.

In regards to this particular group "International Rivers," we must take in to account they may have a cause for their objection if the proper studies were not conducted. We must also consider how effectve they are before we take them on.

Having said that, we should proceed with building these projects making sure the proper study on environmental effect is done, there is proper bidding on the project and that it will not collapse within the first month of its inaguration.

I believe we must not step too far out of international regulation on these matters, if there are such regulations. However, we need power and based on that... we have the right so long as our need outweighs the side effects, the side effects are minimal and there is proper transparency in the doings.

PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 21:47

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msg Comment from: Issac [Visitor]
Let’s cut to the chase. Here the choices are either feeding our starving people or protecting the environment. Of course the choice is obvious. Ethiopia is a very poor country where 50% of its population goes to bed hungry every day. For the last 30 or so years the successive Ethiopia governments have been dependent on international food donation to feed starving Ethiopians. We have to get out of this vicious cycle of food dependency on others. If choosing to feed our people would negatively impact the environment, I say so be it.

PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 22:35

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msg Comment from: Halafi Mengedi [Visitor]
What Meles dictator saying is relax guys, I will be at Menelik palace for the next 10 years. Meles does not know what is coming tomorrow morning let alone he can vision 10 years from now.
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 22:36

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msg Comment from: Lij [Visitor]
simple cost / benefit analysis should demonstrate for the loss vs gain in terms of environment and communities or the environmentalitst could work with the governement to come up with a resolution. Can't be save the envoronment so that millions can suffer. We are all for the envoronment and it need not be such a huge divide but rather a coming of togther to address prob blem.
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msg Comment from: Lij [Visitor]
kalhone abayin demo megedeb newa?
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 23:22

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msg Comment from: Tolla [Visitor]
No true Ethiopian should think against any dev't projects in Ethiopia. We are protesting and lauding against the dictator and his ethinic policies, not against the country's development agenda. We hate division and looting. We encourage all legal and reasonable development programmes. We all know that we lag behind in all dev't barometers and we should even be encouraged to buy shares towards such dev't if we have a democratic gov't that abides by the rule of law.
Gov'ts come and go, but dev't stays for long and benefits the people!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/26/10 @ 23:51

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msg Comment from: selam [Visitor]


Falks Our main enemy is poverty.It is bewildering when the so called Inviromentalist Take on Ethiopia a poor country that strives to take itself out of begging, but chine built one of the largest dam in the world and this so called Inviromenatlist can not try to sabotage it because China finance it's development with it's own capital.

Most of these Inviromentalist has this utopian notion that the enviroment must be preserved on it's natural course. But, in reality no where on Earth, as long as human beings are around that school of thought can be achived. Humans settlment and economical development force that notion out of reach and for the Inviromentalist the poor is the pray to make their noise because they can achive their objective because the poor is always poor.

China, Brazil and India all gave them the middle finger and built mega hydroelectric dam within the last 3 to 10 year. Of course Ethiopia too must do whatever it take to use it's natural resource take it's ppl out of misery. To them not only the enviroment but the indigenous ppl of lower Omo are part of the enviroment as an exotic animals to make their curoisity of human evoletion. The lower Omo ppl too deserve to see the light and their kids must be the main beficiery of this mega dam, schools, Hospitals and other developmmnt must come to them, and no more a destination the curious westerners of exotic primitive african tribes.

No politics when it come to development of Ethiopia and Africa in general.
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 03:28

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msg Comment from: c´moi senait [Visitor]
Yitbarek.

My apology to Yetbarek.

When you are surrounded by Mosquto,you never know if there is a Bee in the area.
My apology again.
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 04:29

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msg Comment from: Amoraw [Visitor]
=> We are programmed to be beggars for ever and ever by the west and extension tails like Egypt.
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 04:38

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msg Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
When gilgel gibe3 is finished and inaugrated to start its power production it will be named MELES ZENAWI DAM for his excelency's great achievment. Pm Meles is in a pace to be the next nobel prize winner.
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 05:17

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msg Comment from: Addis [Visitor]
here in the western contries they expect their presidents to solve problems in less than a year otherwise they know what is gonne happen but in ethiopia it takes more than twenty years to give press freedom because it is obvious that the power is not in the hand of the people.
you know what I don't care weather woyane or kinijit on power all of them do care for their power not for the people
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 08:42

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msg Comment from: Joe [Visitor]
I can't belive this weatern. tey build Nuc., Atomic bomb, all kind of biological weapon but for us they teling us in our on land not to build DAM to use for our on need. I can't belive how selfish they are. They puting their nose when it is not belong to. They like Africa to remain in the dark. Look who is poluting the earth, who is killing people westerners, they see them self like God. God it will judge them for what they did. Since birth of chriet look what they did to human race. Not in my home !!!

WE WILL BUILD IT!!!
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msg Comment from: yitbarek [Visitor]
to c´moi senait

appology accepted!
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msg Comment from: daniel [Visitor]
Fuck westerns .:>
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 12:43

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msg Comment from: john [Visitor]
I wonder why the so called enviromentalists are worried. Is it really for the well being of the estimated 500 000 inhabitants living down stream, or is it because they want these people stay as premitive and poor as they could possible get anywhere in the World? How could a person fights againest civilization?
It is surprising when such opposition comes especially from those perople who have EVERYTHING AT THEIR DISPOSAL.
They should know that one can also collect a pitition which favors how important this dam is for the countrry and the East African region.
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msg Comment from: Al_G [Visitor]
It is important to see the change in power balance in the coming year where the waterresources will be an issue and reason for the most devastating wars this planet have ever seen before. It is between those who control their own resource and will gain even more power because of those natural resource (like Oil rich countries did in the past) or the ones who will face extinction because of pressure from powerful neighbor Like China. Sudan is probably one of those which will face disintegration in the near feature. I hope Ethiopia will emerge as one of those country who manage to take control of its resource for the sake of it poor people
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msg Comment from: verizon.gowtham [Visitor]
samgambayard-c-m.com
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msg Comment from: verizon.gowtham [Visitor]
samgambayard-c-m.com
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msg Comment from: buffet lagar [Visitor]
I smell egyptian and shabian hookers under inviromentalist shits. F@@# them all again and again. We don't like to be told how and what to do inside our backyard. It's the very same reason, that left ethiopia disconnected from the rest of the world. I don't need a bellman to wake me up when he wishes. I as any proud Ethiopian,have my alarm clock set according to my scedual. Dig Ethiopia dig. F@@k the rest. they will get over it.
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msg Comment from: Lij [Visitor]
AI_G

No one country has everything. And for a good reason. It seems obvious that interddependence and cooperation seems to be the way out of this and seemly for a society in the 21st century. I hope that this will be the prevailing thought rather than destruction
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 15:15

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msg Comment from: Tesfa [Visitor]
We don't have to support everything wih out any further analysis. Development is fine, but the government must tell us what will happen to the 500,000 lower Omo people who will be affected by the dam. do we know the impact of the flooding?
Are we all saying let them go to hell? What will happen to their cattle, their grazing land, their downstream farms and the flooding effect?
Environmental analysis and mitigation is a normal process when you build a dam. Let's force the Meles government to address the impact of the dam instead of blindly support the dam. We need humanity as well as civilaization.
Meles is after the large kikback money after awarding the contract, he does not care for the people impacted by the flooding.
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msg Comment from: Enough with Woyane style business [Visitor]
First thing first. We need freedom to live, work and elect our learder first. Freedom from brutal tyrant Meles.

The dam will be build later after we live and get freedom.
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msg Comment from: Issac [Visitor]
Tesfa,

I hope this does not come across as being callous on my part. While I sympathize with the 500,000 lower Omo people, if this project would alleviate the object poverty millions of Ethiopians live under, I am sorry but I am for the project to go forward. My position is based on purely on cost-benefit analysis, nothing more
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msg Comment from: Issac [Visitor]
meant Abject poverty not object poverty
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msg Comment from: M.T. [Visitor]
Thanks all Ethiopians and foreigners who joined hands on this phenomenal electric power project - mega dam strategy - that will manifest itself soon to be a ground breaking step in improving the lives of the East African multitudes, the most populous nation in the region! I am scared of Mega big projects, but the Eastern Africa country faced endless famines for more than a half century, in full contrast to its pride as "the water tower of Africa". Indeed, its great rivers and their tributaries spring from the 1000 plateaus that are the roofs of Africa.
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 17:31

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msg Comment from: Aya Engida [Visitor]
Hi dear country men and women, This electic dam project is part of development.So we have rivers and lakes so they have been flowing for yearsand years . The Egyptianns and the arabs have been against our development towards building electric dams,and now as we have a 5mm hole to see and work for it why activist in the name of enviroment al care is simply jealous and unblessed thought.
Let us do what ever we need to do as long as we are for development and to improve the lives of ethiopians.
We can dislike the gov't of ethiopia but let us remember those country fellows who really struggled and gave their precious lives for Ethiopia, sp please ignore and forget the anarchial ideas of enviro-activist Leave us and let us we do with our own God given waters rivers and lakes and the likes .
We can hate TPLF/EPDRF but BUT not Ethiopia.
We shall flourish and go on to developing .
We shall close all the prisons because we need all men as work power .
Meles and his colaboraters are going away soon or will die soon but we remain with our beloved Ethiopia, and Ethiopians.
PermalinkPermalink 03/27/10 @ 19:23

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msg Comment from: belachew [Visitor]
i love it but no democracy
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msg Comment from: wadani [Visitor]
In these days,there are many good news of hopes and citing developmental projects in back home pops on head line screens.Which is continuously in whole weeks coming up that one after another good news of major projects,here in the Naz headlines as well.That's really an amazing good news and bright future hopes of our years impoverished country,Ethiopia.This is a great news guys.And yes it's indeed!

Well,then of course hopefully by the times that would be finished these all projects in successful,then soon I'm sure the hunger problem and poverty will eradicate from entire Ethiopia as well in her neighboring horn countries.Also that,many conflicts and wars that existing in Ethiopia today,definitely without any another efforts resolved they will vanish and disappearing by itself with hunger and poverty eradicated from Ethiopia by those successfully implemented projects by this regime.

Therefore,for all developmental projects signed or that already started and are in the middle of unfinished working process,then why not be given the woyane regime their credits when they deserved.

Of course,the woyane regime has their negatives and positives.So regardless of other serious issues complained against Melse regime.But,also that without any prejudices against the woyane good working and achievements,there credits must be allowed and given them when its due.

Keep the good works and ignore many unnecessary and useless complaints.

Finally,face the real ground problems that many Ethiopians facing today.

God bless Ethiopia.
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msg Comment from: M.T. [Visitor]
am glad to see all ethiopians are upbeat to the good news!
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msg Comment from: SIGN THE PETITION [Visitor]
Thanks to those who created the petition. People please sign the petition, http://www.petitiononline.com/GibeIII/
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