Gutsy Turkish Villagers Stand Up to Destructive Dams
Jennifer Hattam
Energy / Energy Disasters
December 4, 2011
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Anti-dam protesters in Turkey. The signs the women are carrying read "No to HES [hydroelectric power plants]."
"We used to wake up with the sound of birds, and then one day we woke up to the sound of machines," says a villager in Kastamonu's Loç Valley, a lush green part of Turkey's Black Sea region where up to six dams are planned for 15 kilometers of river. All told, the Turkish government aims to build more than 1,700 dams and hydroelectric power plants across the country, a plan activists say would decimate Turkey's rivers.
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