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dam-l your blurb re: Dam-Reservoir Impact and Information Archive --> erratum on your part (fwd)
This is what the Nearartic.com webmaster is on about.
I'm bringing this up for discussion becasue it is my feeling it
would be a good idea to get some discussions going on here. *smile*
Before he removes the site you might want to check it I wish I had the URL
but I dodn't.
I asked him to amend the entry since it is incorrect on a number of counts.
My feeling is that had I say been a John Murray or a postdoc his attitude
towards my straightforwardness would have been different.
What do people think?
For tone one might compare the "Polemics" part of ICOLD's main site in
Paris which has a rathjer sarcastic tone and ses fit to place quotes
around real science with regard to UNEP.
Hmmm....
WCD they class as "the go-between" and IRN is down as being Anti-Dam.
If I were IRN I might go after ICOLD's misrepresentation online of
their positions as they are primarily pro people's movements.
Thoughts? Discussions?
My milage is that some organizations are calling for more responsible
and wise use of water resources and less water abstraction so as not to
upset the hydrological cycle.
cheers!
-Dianne
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From opirg@carleton.ca Mon Feb 28 21:08:14 2000
Message-ID: <38BB3903.72842AD2@carleton.ca>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:12:03 -0600
From: OPIRG-Carleton <opirg@carleton.ca>
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Organization: Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Carleton University
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CC: dianne@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca, mcr@ox.org, opirg@carleton.ca
Subject: your blurb re: Dam-Reservoir Impact and Information Archive --> erratum on your part
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Dear webmaster:
Your precis on the DRIIA site is incorrect.
We are not anti-dam, we are
DRIIA has been online since 1994 with bibliographies and peer-reviewed
citations as well as grey literature and other references about impacts
of dams which developers and promoters keep ignoring. It is not ANTI
water development, and further, it is referenced by the Smithsonian
Institute's online OCEAN PLANET site, and was selected by a NASA
oceanographer as a site with good information. It's been cited in
peer-reviewed publications and simply deals with the issue of the real
effects these projects *in excess* are known to cause. The IUCN and a
large number of academic institutions reference the site.
I repeat: the purpose of the site is not anti-water development. It is
PRO-conservation, and pro wise use of water resources, and anti - TOO
MUCH water abstraction.
DRWG and our colleagues in academia and research would greatly
appreciate it if you would be so kind as to change your blurb to refect
the actual purpose of the site
instead of casting aspersions and creating misrepresentations.
If necessary, action against Neararctic will be taken for
misrepresentation.
One is not referenced by NASA, the Smithsonian and IUCN by being "anti"
anything.
The page is both scientific and politcical. If that is good enough for
the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Scienecs it had better be
good enough for you, whoever you people are. I've never even heard of
you till this evening.
The Dam-Reservoir Working Group is associated with Carleton University's
Public Interest Reserarch Centre. The site is maintained by myself, and
is based on 10 years of research into the peer-reviewed impacts of
dams... but you make it appear as if it is the work of someone making
things up to the negative.
I and my collegues at OPIRG and other associations and organizations
look forward to a rapid correction of the erroneous information you are
providing concerning DRIIA, a site well-respected by the water
abstraction impacts community. I look forward to hearing from you
promptly concerning your oversight.
Yours truly,
C. Dianne Murray
on behalf of OPIRG-Carleton...
Dianne Murray,
Coordinator, Dam-reservoir Working Group, OPIRG-Carleton;
webmistress, DRIIA http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/dams
& listmanager/listowner: dam-l@ox.org
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