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Clear felling along the Changuinola River to make way for the Chan 75 dam

3rd January 2015 Chapter 4 / Hydro-electric power
Photo: Genna West

Photo: Genna West

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Chapter 4

  • Energy developments in Central America
    • Firewood, tortillas and floods
    • Percentage electricity production by generation type, Central America, 2009
    • Per capita electricity consumption, Central America
    • More on Costa Rica’s carbon neutral efforts, 2017
    • Costa Rica’s New President Leads the Way with Fossil Fuel Ban
    • A few energy developments in Central America
  • The energy deficit and privatisation
    • Wind energy and power privatisation in Nicaragua
    • Case study: Energy privatisation in Nicaragua
    • Unión Fenosa
    • Unión Fenosa in Nicaragua
    • Case study: energy privatisation in Honduras
    • Case study: energy privatisation in Guatemala
    • Guatemalan opposition to Unión Fenosa dealt with by hitmen
    • ‘Fuera Fenosa’
    • Case study: energy privatisation in Costa Rica
    • Nicaragua hopes to run on 100% clean energy in six years
    • Nicaraguan Energy Distribution Returns to State Ownership
  • Fossil fuels
    • Oil exploration in Belize
    • Oil exploration in Nicaragua
    • Welcome to ADELA
    • Belize acts to end offshore oil exploration
    • Offshore oil operations in Belize?
  • Hydro-electric power
    • Case study: HEP projects in Panama’s Changuinola-Teribe hydrographic basin
    • Hydroelectric projects in Bocas del Toro, Panama
    • The Chan 75 dam – points for
    • The Chan 75 dam – points against
    • Clear felling along the Changuinola River to make way for the Chan 75 dam
    • The Patuca River and the proposed Patuca dams
    • Case study: The Chixoy Dam, Guatemala
    • State terror in support of a Guatemalan hydroelectric project
    • Green dam linked to killings of six indigenous people in Guatemala
    • Case study: The Tumarin hydroelectricity project, Nicaragua
    • Construction of Tumarín 160 MW hydro project to start this summer
    • San Marco – Indigenous Land Rights v Hydroelectric Projects
    • Berta Cáceres Receives The Goldman Environmental Prize, 2015
    • Land Defence Lawyer Carlos Hernández Murdered in Arizona, Honduras
    • PROGELSA denounced for paying inhabitants to create a confrontation on the Petacón River.
    • The Jilamito Hydroelectric Project in Honduras
    • BID retira el financiamiento a dos hidroeléctricas en Guatemala
    • IDB withdraws financing for two HEP schemes in Guatemala
    • A second crack discovered in Costa Rican HEP dam
  • Geothermal energy
    • Geothermal energy development in Central America
    • Geothermal energy development in Central America (Table)
    • Geothermal energy projects under development in Central America
    • Geothermal energy’s negative side
  • Solar power
    • Household solar energy initiatives, Masaya, Nicaragua
    • Listing of solar energy initiatives in Central America
    • Small-scale solar power in Nicaragua
    • G20 help for Honduras?: Solar power project to combat climate change in Honduras
    • New solar power deal in Belize
    • China invests in solar power in Nicaragua
  • Small-scale alternatives – is size important?
    • Photovoltaics lighting up the night in rural Nicaragua
    • Costa Rica’s environmentalists caught in a quandary – the climate or the parks?

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