Río Negro Survivors Rebuild and Face the State

Environmental Impact Assessments, local power and self-determination: The case of mining and hydropower development in Guatemala

“…Mining conflicts in Guatemala have attracted much attention from scholars and activists (Hurtado and Lungo, 2007;Fulmer et al, 2008;Holden and Jacobson, 2009;Yagenova and Garcia, 2009;Nolin and Stephens, 2010;Sieder, 2010;Urkidi, 2011;Rasch, 2012;Yagenova, 2012;Pedersen, 2014;Aguilar-Støen, 2015), whereas hydropower-related conflicts have received almost no attention in the literature (but see Einbinder, 2014). However, as of June 2014, the Ministry of Energy and Mines recognized 19 ongoing hydropower related conflicts (com.…”