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He has also promised to use Chinese loans to build a controversial dam on the Omo River in the south.

China is lending Ethiopia billions of dollars; $460m alone to build a controversial dam on the Omo river.

On June 11th, out of the blue, he announced that the government would press ahead with plans to build a controversial dam on the Indus, despite having no money to do so.

Western Australia in 1967 cajoled the federal government into funding a large, controversial dam on the Ord River in the far north, without finding any form of tropical agriculture that would flourish there.

A special meeting to decide whether the construction of a controversial dam on the Mekong River in Laos should be allowed has ended without agreement.

About 2.5 mile upstream from Shawnee is Tocks Island, the site of a proposed controversial dam project following flooding on the river in 1955.

The Mekong ministers responsible for southeast Asia's "Mother River" are expected to pass judgment on Thursday on the most controversial dam ever proposed for the vast waterway.

Representatives from the four countries that share the lower reaches of the Mekong River said Tuesday that they failed to reach agreement on plans for a controversial dam in Laos.

Belo Monte is the largest among dozens of controversial dam projects planned in Brazil's Amazon region.

These range from help with the financing and construction of a huge new port on Pakistan's southern coast, projects to improve the currently vulnerable road link than runs over the Himalayas, assistance with railways and enormous hydroelectric schemes such as the controversial dam being built in the foothills of the mountains near the disputed de facto border with India in Kashmir.

The bank, severely criticized for its role in another controversial dam, in India, hopes to avoid reliving that nightmare.