Rural Community Fights a Second Dam and a New Expropriation of Land, Mexico
In 1976, the construction of a hydroelectric dam destroyed farmland in the rural municipality of Chicoasén in southern Mexico. Forty years later, part of the local population is fighting a second dam. The 240-MW Chicoasén 2 dam, to be built at a cost of 300 million dollars, is scheduled to come onstream in July 2018.
Southern flooding: seeing historic levels
All over the Mississippi Valley region, rivers quickly rose near record flood stages and homes were submerged. Louisiana National Guard spokesman Col. Pete Schneider called it the most widespread non-hurricane flooding the guard has ever dealt with, reports the Associated Press…