Medellin energy company EPM on Saturday evacuated more than 100 workers from its disaster-ridden Hidroituango dam after finding water was seeping through the dam that has been at risk of…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal is set to pursue a case relating to forced disappearances at the site of the country’s largest hydroelectric dam project run by Medellin’s utilities company EPM.…
Colombia’s prosecution is pressing criminal charges against the bosses of the Hidroituango Dam, whose recent malfunctions have caused environmental devastation for the Cauca River and its communities. Investigations of irregularities…
Hundreds of protesters at EPM chanted that the Medellin public utilities company “is a thief” and left dead fish on the building’s steps on Thursday in response to an environmental…
Water is slowly returning to Colombia’s second largest river, but fears persist that chronic corruption and mismanagement at the Hidroituango dam project could spur another disaster. Tens of thousands of…
Colombia’s second largest river, the Cauca, virtually dried up on Tuesday after Medellin energy company EPM closed the provisional water discharge of the country’s largest hydroelectric dam project. Against the…
Medellin public utilities company EPM on Wednesday successfully finished the first leg of an operation to prevent the failure of the construction of the country’s largest hydro-electric dam. The company…
Medellin energy company EPM issued a red alert on Thursday after it found severe damage inside Hidroituango, Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam, that could cause the dam to fail. According to…
Colombia’s army on Tuesday rescued 17 people who allegedly had been kidnapped by the country’s largest paramilitary group, the AGC, three days before. The alleged victims were employees of EPM,…