Climate tradeoff: Indonesian hydropower raises environmental hackles
A hydropower dam in Indonesia that would help cut carbon emissions threatens a fragile ecosystem. An environmentalist explains why it’s worth it.
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The Christian Science Monitor Daily for May 14, 2021
By Dyna Rochmyaningsih Contributor Emmy Hafild co-founded Indonesia’s most prominent environmental NGO in the 1990s. Today she’s an adviser to a private company building a hydropower dam along the Batang Toru river ecosystem on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which relies on coal to produce most of its electricity. Ms. Hafild accepts that there is a trade-off between producing hydropower and the disruption of the surrounding ecosystem, but argues that this project is necessary to help Indonesia hit its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate change is rea...
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