For more than five decades, Indigenous communities in the northern Philippines have pushed back against the planned construction of hydropower dams on the Chico River system.
For Indigenous communities in the provinces of Kalinga and Mountain Province, the river is of great importance. They call it their “river of life” and have depended on it for generations.
[Correction: at , the video states the Jalaur river multipurpose project and the Panay river basin project are in Luzon. The subtitles have been fixed to say the projects are in Panay] Read more:
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Related to SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy
