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Destructive energy sources
Biofuel production threatens food security in rural Uganda
Uganda is facing increasing demand for energy to meet social and economic development and improve the wellbeing of Ugandan...
29 September, 2014
Waste-to-energy incinerators in Uruguay
Uruguay has significant problems relating to the management of industrial, commercial and domestic waste. In the capital Montevideo alone,...
11 September, 2014
Oil palm plantations in Liberia
Expansion of palm oil production in Liberia by Malaysia-based industrial conglomerate Sime Darby is rapidly swallowing up farmlands and...
11 September, 2014
The hidroituango mega dam in Colombia
Thousands of people are resisting the construction of the Hidroituango mega dam in Antioquia in the northwest of Colombia,...
11 September, 2014
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan
On March 11th 2011, an earthquake hit the Pacific coast of Japan. The earthquake, known as the Great East...
11 September, 2014
The struggle against fracking in the UK
Rising energy costs combined with austerity and declining real incomes means that a growing proportion of ordinary British households...
11 September, 2014
Australia’s Wandoan mega mine
In the mid 2000s the Australian economy entered into a mining exploration and export growth phase, involving a ten...
11 September, 2014
Destructive impacts of energy sources
The different energy sources on which the current system is primarily reliant are also extremely harmful and destructive in...
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