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Re: dam-l your blurb re: Dam-Reservoir Impact and Information Archive --> erratum on your part (fwd)
Hi Dianne,
I think you'd be wise to just forget about him and his site.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dianne Murray <dianne@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
To: dam impacts discussion list <dam-l@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:15 AM
Subject: 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
>
>
>
> Forwarded message:
> 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>
> Reply-To: opirg@carleton.ca
> Organization: Ontario Public Interest Research Group - Carleton University
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> To: webmaster@nearctica.com
> 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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