Colombia floods revive controversy over hydroelectric dam

Flooded sugar cane fields in Colombia. Picture by Neil Palmer (CIAT) via Wikimedia Commons. As Colombia’s northern Córdoba province continues...

Environmental costs mounting but EPM pushes forward with controversial dam project

An early estimate has been made today into the environmental damage caused by closing the floodgates to troubled dam Hidrotuango. In a press release...

Crisis Hidroituango: Troubled dam continues to wreak havoc on Cauca river

Puerto Valdivia, photo above from August 2018, has remained in a constant state of red alert since April last year and has now seen its river slowly...

Hidroituango dam remains on red alert as surrounding communities brace for the worst

[caption id="attachment_30279" align="aligncenter" width="466"] Photo courtesy of @GobAntioquia[/caption] The communities surrounding Hidroituango...

Hidroituango dam flooding forces thousands to evacuate

[caption id="attachment_29842" align="aligncenter" width="1804"] Photo courtesy of @Teleantioquia: Twitter.[/caption] "Please immediately withdraw...