Energy companies pledge to measure impacts of large dam projects

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The Khone falls on the Mekong River in Champassak, Laos. Photograph: The Guardian - Suthep Kritsanavarin/ONASIA

Two of the world’s largest energy companies committed last week to assess the impacts of their hydropower projects using new voluntary guidelines to evaluate the economic, social, and environmental consequences of big dam projects. But civil society activists denounced the protocol as an attempt to “greenwash” the industry.

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