The 2nd International Meeting of Amur-Okhotsk Consortium was held on November 5 and 6, 2011, in Sapporo, Japan, as a program in Hokkaido University Sustainable Weeks 2011. The Consortium was formed as a result of very innovative Amur-Okhotsk Project that explored contribution of Amur River outflow to sustaining fisheries of the Sea of […]
Good News!Thanks to restless efforts of Ganbold - RwB Coordinator in Mongolia, Rivers without Boundaries International Coalition became a registered NGO in Mongolia.
Such registration ( that would be almost impossible in China and painfully difficult in Russia) allows the Coalition greater flexibility and provides additional opportunities in advocacy and fund-raising. […]
Participants of Mongolian-Russain talks on transboundary waters held in Ulaan Baatar on October 27 were addressed by environmental NGO activists urging both countries to talk less and do more to stop destructive mining activities on transboundary rivers: Onon, Selenga, Uldz, etc.” Rivers in the sacred land of Chinggis Khaan should be clean!” read one of […]
An ethnic Mongolian herder has been killed in China in circumstances similar to an incident in May which led to protests in the region, reports say.A human rights group said the herder had been trying to protect grazing land from Chinese oil trucks in Inner Mongolia when he was knocked down.
Chinese authorities said he had […]
The South East Asia countries have got fully elaborated stages of development. In Deripaska’s opinion, Russia should enter this Asian world and integrate into it. The head of the Basic Element Company speaking at Baikal International Economic Forum (BIEF) has also mentioned that Asian countries and China primarily have got certain skewness and […]
En+ to take EuroSibEnergo public in mid-late 2012
EuroSibEnergo, the electricity and coal division of billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s En+ Group, may return to its plans for an IPO, which failed to materialize in 2010-2011, next year.
EuroSibEnergo has been consolidating Deripaska’s energy and engineering assets since 2009, and holds controlling stakes in Irkutskenergo (RTS: IRGZ), […]
The Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation is responsible for coordinating the implementation of the Russia and China Cross Border Cooperation Programme that was approved by the Heads of the States in October, 2009. In particular, it is support for investment projects that are included in the list of […]
According to the China Ministry of Environmental Protection two new automatic stations for water quality monitoring have been constructed and have passed six-months probation period. Both stations are important for controlling water quality at transboundary Argun River. One station is on Genhe River at Datieqiao, the other one is on Hailaer river at Chuogang town […]
The Pigeon is dead but the Marmot is alive!!!
An unusual but timely monument was inaugurated by authorities in uranium-mining town of Krasnokamensk, which lands border best wetlands of upper Argun River. It is dedicated to all marmots exterminated by poisoning in 1939-1956 under largely false suspicion that they disseminate infectious plague. Thousands […]
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 […]