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Rivers run dry as corruption claims surround Romania's hydropower boom

2014-02-04 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Deep into the wilderness of Romania's Southern Carpathian mountains, Bogdan Binescu, an avid angler and environmental campaigner, stops by the white waters of a mountain stream. "This river used to be the only route back to civilisation," he says. "But now civilisation has caught up." A few kilometres on, his meaning becomes clear. Where beech trees had previously risen from the banks of the River Capra, a grey concrete building sits on muddied earth, housing the turbines of a small hydropower...

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