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Fastest and Biggest Dam Removal in Finland!
The Sierilä hydro power plant planned by the Kemijoki Ltd would have dammed and drowned the last free-flowing main channel of Kemijoki River in the Northern Finland. The dam project was canceled thanks to the long struggle of the NGOs and local activists!
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Cartoon from 2017:
The Kemijoki River in Northern Finland was once maybe the […]
Activist to Pay Compensations to Power Company for “Damaging the Dam” with Art!
The Kemijoki River in Northern Finland was once maybe the best salmon river in Europe.
The river was dammed after the World War II, and no fish passages were built, so the local salmon population was lost.
Kemijoki Ltd has now 16 hydro power plants in the Kemijoki River. The company wants to build one more with […]
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Tagged art, fish, fish migration, fishing, hydro power, law, restoration, rivers, salmon, water framework directive
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Stop Fake Green EU Finance Rules
WWF EU: “130 NGOs and experts are sounding the alarm on the EU’s green finance rules, the ‘Taxonomy’, and calling for them to be rooted in science. In a detailed joint statement, the groups flag and analyse ten priority areas of concern in the European Commission’s draft, which covers which sectors can be classed as […]
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Tagged biodiversity, climate, conservation, energy, forests, fossil fuel, hydro power, politicians, water framework directive
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Fish Migration from Sea to Source
Migratory fish are in trouble
At least half of all the flow in the world’s rivers is manipulated or fragmented, and the wild free flowing rivers are now more threatened than ever. Only 64 of the 177 rivers, longer than 1,000 km, are free-flowing and yet there are plans to build more than 3,500 new large […]
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Tagged dam, fish migration, fishes, fishing, hydro power, lakes and seas, restoration, wetland
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