- Target:
- Ministry of Electricity and Dams, Dam Implementation Unit
- Region:
- Sudan
Having experienced the effects of the Merowe Dam on the environment of the Fourth Cataract region (flooding), the local people (forced resettlement), and their past and present culture (drowned), we are extremely concerned that the Sudanese Government seems ready to implement four more hydropower projects in northern and eastern Sudan.
This means that there will be three dams constructed on the River Nile, one at the Dal Cataract, one at Kajbar in the Third Cataract, and one at Shereik in the Fifth Cataract. The fourth dam will be built on the Atbara River, the last tributary of the Nile. None of these dams is actually necessary given the existence of alternative sources for energy production.
None of these dams has the consent of the local population who will be the ones most affected by the dam implementations.
We, the undersigned, urge the Government of Sudan to abandon any plans for further dam building on the Nile and Atbara, and rather turn to alternative means for production of electricity, like solar and aeolic energy.
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The Stop the Dams in Sudan! petition to Ministry of Electricity and Dams, Dam Implementation Unit was written by StopDams and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.