[asia-apec 1059] Re: The Chotiari Reservoir Project Sindh Pakistan

[PAN Asia Pacific]

Dear Dr Aslam Pervez Umrani,

RE: >The Chotiari Reservoir Project

Can you please provide more information about:

-CIDA's involvement in the project.
-Actions taken against the dam by the affected communities.
-World Bank (and other funders) loan conditions

Also, if this is of any use to you, the Sector Stategy and Policy
Specialist of the Rural Development Department (Environmentally and
Socially Sustainable Development) is Robert L. Thompson. His email
is Rthompson2 at worldbank.org and his fax is 1-202-522-3309.  I
wouldn't expect him to be sympathetic, but it may be useful to
your campaign work.

You should also note that the 636 participants to the Asia-Pacific
Peoples' Assembly, representing 316 organisations from 30 countries,
adopted, as a resolution to the final unity statement, the
following regarding the World Bank financed dam near Ramancherry,
Tamil Nadu:

"We, the participants of APPA, demand that the World Bank withdraw
all support for the project and all other dam schemes."

Keep up the fight,

Devlin
PAN-AP