South China Morning Post published Eric Ng’s new article “Russian to relaunch HK debut next year” on attempts of Eurosibenergo to raise money for hydropower development in Russia and its claims about “highest environmental standards”.
EuroSibEnergo (ESE), the power unit of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s energy and resources conglomerate EN+ Group, plans to relaunch its shelved […]
Alarming news came from eurosib.ru - official web-site of EuroSibEnergo(ESE)- energy offshoot of Deripaska’s Basel Holding.
“EuroSibEnergo, the largest independent power producer in Russia, and China Yangtze Power Co. (”CYPC”), the largest Chinese listed hydroelectricity producer, signed a Framework Agreement that provides for joint investment of a list of power plant construction projects in Eastern […]
Mongolian environmentalists ask increasing number questions regarding handling of nuclear issues, especially in connection with Dornod-Uranium agreement with Russia. Looks like they have good reason for it - lately Mongolian nuclear deals and associated scandals happen every month if not more frequently. Two latest stories follow:
EC funds for safety issues in uranium mining […]
Thanks to generosity and good cooperation spirit of the Mongolian Water Authority we finally obtained English text of the Action plan.
We were especially impressed with the opening actions under Section 3:
3. The following measures shall be taken towards creating conditions for the accumulation of water resources, provision of potable water, which should meet the requirements […]
Given huge stake that Canadian capitalists already have in Mongolian mines an article “Mongolia faces resource ‘curse’” in Vancouver Sun presenting views on Mongolian mining and environmental activists is especially interesting to us.RwB
No one missed the symbolism when the Mongolian government this month announced which companies are getting the rights to […]
We closely followed crusade, arrest and days in jail of our Mongolian colleagues. Below collection of news clippings day by day
June 21, 2011
Gal Undesten delivers demand note to seven mining companies
Gal Undesten Union yesterday told journalists that it has delivered demand notes to seven mining companies in Selenge and Darkhan-Uul aimags in the […]
This summer Mongolia experiences tremendous fuel shortages. In a long term oil-exporting country should be able to provide for itself. So recent decision to develop oil refinery in Dornod Aimag seems very logical, though associated with certain environmental risks. Continuous attempts to reduce environmental and social losses from operations of Petrochina and other chinese oil-exporting […]
“In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold.”
So Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote of his years of hard labor in 19th century Siberia, after a jittery Tsar Nicholas I banished the famed writer to the lonely Far East. For centuries, the massive swath of land east of Moscow and north of China has been a […]
By Michael Kohn | AFP – Wed, Jul 6, 2011
Mongolia herder on mission to tackle mining firms
The destruction of Mongolia’s grasslands to access a wealth of mineral riches has sparked an anti-mining movement led by a nomadic herder who says force can be used to bring polluting firms to heel.
Tsetsegee Munkhbayar is the head of Fire Nation, […]
3 July 2011
to H. E Gombojav Zandanshatar
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
RE : Arrests of Leaders of Fire Nation (Gal Undesten) and United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes (UMMRL)
Dear Minister,
I am writing to you as a matter of some urgency regarding the reports we have just received concerning the recent arrests […]