Victims of the disastrous Hidroituango dam project on Tuesday will be removed from their refugee shelter while Medellin energy company EPM refuses to compensate damages or help them find homes…
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…
The once bustling streets of the Remolino neighborhood of Puerto Valdivia, a small town next to the Cauca River in the Antioquia province in northern Colombia, were empty. It had…
Colombia’s prosecution said that negligence in the construction of Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam is threatening life around the country’s second largest river. Colombia’s Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez presented a…
Communities living below Colombia’s largest dam project have been warned that heavy rainfall during the ongoing rainy season increases the risk of a Hidroituango dam wall collapse. The town of…
The corruption-ridden construction of Hidroituango, Colombia’s largest hydroelectric dam, is not just threatening to bankrupt Medellin; it has destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands of campesinos living in communities hours…
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.…
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…
Hidroituango, one the worse environmental disasters in Colombia’s history, has been in the making more than 20 years. These are the politicians responsible for the mega-project that all but destroyed…