CAMPAIGN: ILISU DAMN


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May 25, 2001


There are also considerable health risks for those who live close to the dam. The Berne Declaration states that the Ilisu reservoir will "infest the area with Malaria and Leishmaniasis" which will mean higher incidents of anemia, fever, dysentery and pneumonia, some of which may prove fatal.

An Environmental Impact Assessment was commissioned in 1997 and completed by Spring 1998. It has not been released to the public. Requasts for access to this material by both Swiss and UK NGOs has been consistently denied. According to Balfour Beatty the EIA "confirms that there are no problems as regards the potential effects of the project on local flora and fauna, climate, landscape, ground water, earthquake risk, flooding risk, sedimentation or erosion." If this is so, why is there so much reluctance to publish the original EIA?

So, what are you going to do about it?

For those who would still like the opportunity to help, there is a letter to Stephen Byers, Secretary of State for Trade at the Ilisu Damn Campaign site. Click here to see it. Sorry it is so long. Unfortunately, Mr Byers has been a bit canny about handing out his email address, so if you want to get involved you need to copy this letter from the site, print it out, sign it and send it by snail mail to Stephen Byers.

Links to others opposing the Ilisu Damn:

All the photos of Hasankeyf on this page were provided by the Kurdish Human Rights Project (UK)

Hasankeyf Photo supplied by KHRP (UK)
Hasankeyf Photo supplied by KHRP (UK)
Hasankeyf Photo supplied by KHRP (UK)
Hasankeyf Photo supplied by KHRP (UK)
  

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4.   Jul 26, 2001 4:15 PM
You did a wonderful job on this. Its more like a whole website rather than an article.

-- posted by StCatherine
3.   Jun 6, 2001 4:53 PM
In response to message posted by Linda_Little:

The piece I saw had no interviews with any of the people who would be negatively impact ...

-- posted by Purpleflame
2.   Jun 1, 2001 9:30 AM
In response to message posted by Purpleflame:

Yes, the Turkish government does tend to think that it would be very beneficial, but t ...

-- posted by Linda_Little
1.   May 29, 2001 9:08 PM
I appreciate all the research and thought that went into this article. It's odd.... last week I saw a piece on this proposed dam on the History Channel! Their slant was about all the archeological sit ...

-- posted by Purpleflame



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