A community based seminar presented by Sombrilla Refugee Support Society and co-sponsored by the Parkland Institute, examining the development of water resources in the global south and its environmental & human rights impact. Saturday, April 27, 2002 from 9.00AM 4.00OPM Faculty of Business, Room 105, University of Alberta (south side entrance or through north side entrance of Marshall Tory Building) Admission fee full day: $12 / Student/low income $5
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Dam building or Damnation?
Perspectives from the Global South on major development projects.
Info & registration: 435-1042 / 414-1536A community based seminar presented by Sombrilla Refugee Support Society and co-sponsored by the Parkland Institute, examining the development of water resources in the global south and its environmental & human rights impact.
Saturday, April 27, 2002 from 9.00AM 4.00OPM
Faculty of Business, Room 105, University of Alberta
(south side entrance or through north side entrance of Marshall Tory Building)
Admission fee full day: $12 / Student/low income $5Key Presenters:
Dams, Development and Human Rights; Voices from the South
Dr Virginia Cawagas, Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer with the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Department of Educational Policy Studies.Move over and share?: The Politics of Land and Water in Rural Alberta
Dr Roger Epp, Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Division of History, Sociology and Political Studies at Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta. Dr Epp co-authored the widely acclaimed study Writing off the Rural West. Globalization, Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Communities�.Don Austin: The impact of grandiose water diversification scheme on the future of Albertans; in whose name are dams being built? Progress for people or fresh water for profit? Mr. Auston is an independent researcher and columnist from Didsbury, Alberta.
Dr Bill Donahue: Environmental Impacts of Dam Building
Dr Donahue is and environmental research consultant, and contractor, currently with University of Alberta who has been looking into the rapid decline in water levels over the last 25 years in Muriel Lake, near Bonnyville. Dr. Donahue specializes in impacts on climate change, acidification, and UV radiation on lakes and streams, and impacts of human activities in cycling of mercury in freshwaters.Dionicio Barrales: Violation of Human Rights of Pewenche People of Chile
Mr. Barrales is the Coordinator for the Committee for the Support of Mapuche People (Canada).Different Chilean Governments allied with the trans-national electric company ENDESA plan to build a series of Dams over Bio Bio River in the VIII Region of the country. This will affect the lives and culture of the Pewenche People. The construction of the Ralco Dam will flood 3,400 hectares of native forest and it will also force the relocation of 600 people from their ancestral land. The waters of the reservoir created by the building of the Ralco Dam will permanently flood and destroy forever all the burial sites and sacred places that have been- and are up to this very moment in history- the most meaningful centre and focus of worship and community identification for the local aboriginal people.
For full program details and registration, please contact:
Enneke Lorberg @ 435-1042 or 414-1536 / Fax: 436-7764Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo. orEsta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
