Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and
big hydropower projects.
Not exact matches
There is no doubt that one of the
biggest economic assets to the region is the low - cost
hydropower created at the Niagara Power
Project.
«We may see a certain shift of resources from coal where the World Bank is pretty much exiting to
big hydropower,» said Peter Bosshard of International Rivers, which has been fighting a major new dam
project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Having see what some
big dams have done to Swedish Lappland, for example, I feel like trading some of those
hydropower projects for nuclear energy might have been a net plus for the environment.