Waterkeeper Alliance: New Legal Analysis - Dams That Threaten the Source of the Amazon Can't Legally Be Built
July 28, 2020
July 28, 2020
NEW YORK, July 28 -- The Waterkeeper Alliance issued the following news release:
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Maranon River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer legally be built, according to a new legal analysis done by the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, in partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance and Maranon Waterkeeper.
The Maranon is one of five great rivers connecting the Andes with th . . .
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Maranon River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer legally be built, according to a new legal analysis done by the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, in partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance and Maranon Waterkeeper.
The Maranon is one of five great rivers connecting the Andes with th . . .