ETV News - Ethiopia to build Grand Dam on Abay in defiance of Egypt
ETV News - Ethiopia to build Grand Dam on Abay in defiance of Egypt
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Ethiopia will build a new hydropower plant in the Nile River basin that will generate 5,250 megawatts of electricity, Water and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu said./nThe facility, known as the Grand Millennium Dam of Ethiopia, will be built at a cost of 80 billion birr ($4.76 billion), Alemayehu told reporters today in Addis Ababa, the capital. The plant will be situated in the Benishangul-Gumuz region near the border with Sudan, he said./nThe project will be funded by Ethiopia, partly through the sale of government bonds, and the Horn of Africa nation’s international partners, Alemayehu said./n“The Ethiopian government is ready and determined to complete the project with or without foreign grants or loans,” he said. No further details on financing or who will build the plant were provided./nEthiopia has the second-largest hydropower potential in Africa, after the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the World Bank. The country plans to increase its electricity capacity fivefold to 10,000 megawatts over the next five years, Alemayehu said./nSome of the power produced by the plant will be exported to neighboring Sudan and Egypt, he said. Last month, Burundi became the sixth nation to sign an agreement on usage of water from the Nile River, enabling ratification of an accord that may strip Egypt of its veto power over projects that tap the world’s longest river./nEgypt and Sudan will benefit more from irrigation from the reservoir than Ethiopia, according to Alemayehu./n“The dam will doubtlessly benefit all the riparian countries involved, with disadvantage to none,” he said./nEgypt has not been consulted on the project, Egyptian Embassy spokesman Mostafa Ahmady said in an interview today from Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia will build a new hydropower plant in the Nile River basin that will generate 5,250 megawatts of electricity, Water and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu said./nThe facility, known as the Grand Millennium Dam of Ethiopia, will be built at a cost of 80 billion birr ($4.76 billion), Alemayehu told reporters today in Addis Ababa, the capital. The plant will be situated in the Benishangul-Gumuz region near the border with Sudan, he said./nThe project will be funded by Ethiopia, partly through the sale of government bonds, and the Horn of Africa nation’s international partners, Alemayehu said./n“The Ethiopian government is ready and determined to complete the project with or without foreign grants or loans,” he said. No further details on financing or who will build the plant were provided./nEthiopia has the second-largest hydropower potential in Africa, after the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the World Bank. The country plans to increase its electricity capacity fivefold to 10,000 megawatts over the next five years, Alemayehu said./nSome of the power produced by the plant will be exported to neighboring Sudan and Egypt, he said. Last month, Burundi became the sixth nation to sign an agreement on usage of water from the Nile River, enabling ratification of an accord that may strip Egypt of its veto power over projects that tap the world’s longest river./nEgypt and Sudan will benefit more from irrigation from the reservoir than Ethiopia, according to Alemayehu./n“The dam will doubtlessly benefit all the riparian countries involved, with disadvantage to none,” he said./nEgypt has not been consulted on the project, Egyptian Embassy spokesman Mostafa Ahmady said in an interview today from Addis Ababa.
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I came to GERDP two years ago in a helicopter because there were no roads
I was the first to touch the ground with my foot this project
I live and work here with my Ethiopian brothers.
I think you need to know to speak, and unless you know you should be quiet
If you do not believe that this project exists then come here and we will accommodate you see it with your eyes.
Do not give power to ignorance because this will kill your intelligence.
Very easy to understand.
You were lucky enough to have a president like Meles
is the only politician to develop your country
If this is not true then I want a name of an Ethiopian politician who has done something for this country, please write the name:
If you do not know the name of a politician who has contributed to the development of this nation
So come with us here in the sun at 50 degrees, come to work for your country
under extreme conditions because we are building the future of your children, but I do not see you here by my side, I only see your Ethiopian brothers who do not speak of things that do not know but they also work for you.
Have respect for those who are giving their lives.
I am here.
Ciao.
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source: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Ethiopia-Offers-Olive-Branch-in-Nile-Water-Sharing-Dispute-119003069.html
Ethiopia is offering Egypt and Sudan an olive branch in their bitter dispute over sharing the waters of the Nile River. The offer includes possible joint ownership of a huge Ethiopian hydropower project that Egypt has tried to block.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi launched a furious attack Friday on powerful interests seeking to prevent construction of a 5,200-megawatt dam on the Blue Nile, in the highlands along the Sudanese border.
Meles says the massive project would allow Ethiopia to earn precious foreign exchange from electricity exports. But traditional funding sources have dried up, largely due to opposition from environmentalists, as well as from Egypt, which depends almost totally on the Nile for its water supply.
Speaking to the opening session of an international hydropower conference, Meles vowed the $4.8-billion project would go ahead, even if impoverished Ethiopia has to pay the tab itself.
“We are so convinced of the justice of our cause, so sure of the strength of our arguments, so convinced of the role of our hydropower projects in eliminating poverty in our country that we will use every ounce of our strength, every dime of money that we can save to complete our program,” Meles said.
The Ethiopian leader blasted donors and lending agencies that have withheld support for the project, calling their action unjust.
“We need the support of all our partners to build the dam as our savings are inadequate,” Meles added. “If our partners are deterred from doing so because of the noisy campaign of environmental extremists and some politicians with old-fashioned ideas, they will in effect be condemning millions of Africans to poverty. That cannot be just. That cannot be fair.”
In comments to reporters after his speech, the Ethiopian leader held out hope that the post-Mubarak administration in Cairo might soften Egypt’s longstanding opposition to upstream use of Nile water.
“I am still hopeful that the current government in Egypt will recognize that this project has nothing but benefits to Egypt,” said Meles. “Nothing. I believe the Sudanese understand this has nothing but benefits to them.”
Meles said a change of heart by Cairo’s new leaders could open the way for cooperative agreements, including a deal that would give Egypt partial ownership of the dam.
“If there is a reconsideration, there will be time to consider many issues, including possibly joint ownership of the project itself. We are open to such ideas," said Meles.
Egypt’s ambassador to Ethiopia Tariq Ghuneim told VOA his country is open to negotiations to reach an amicable solution to the Nile water dispute. He said he could not comment on Meles’s proposal because he had not seen details, but said any agreement would be a “win-win” for all.
Ethiopian officials were vague on when construction of the so-called Great Millennium Dam would begin, saying only it would be ‘soon’, and would be completed in less than four years from the start date. They say it would create a reservoir of water twice as large as Lake Tana, landlocked Ethiopia’s largest body of water, but would not displace any people because it would be contained in the existing river gorge.
The Horn of Africa nation is hoping to increase its electricity generation capacity to 15,000 megawatts within 10 years. The World Bank says Ethiopia has the second greatest hydropower potential in Africa, after the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This man is crazy. He is now selling the nile to Egypt!!!!
let's put our difference a side and builled our country.
we can do this.
By helping the Gov. for this project. After all it is for us not for meles or for somebody else:
But I beleive in our development and use of our resources But I have no confidence and belief that Ethiopia and Ethiopian will develop under Woyane's regime. Woyane is A Talk and lie Factory.
Wushetam enquan yan yakil litset Yikrina 1 Birr Ekis Yelehim. Achewerwari...wushetam
መለስ ሰልጣን ለምናይለቅም አባይን ገድብ ተቃዋሚ መንግስት ይሰራል. መለስ ለባው አሁን ደግሞ ገንዘብ ላኩ ማለት ጀመርከ? ደሞ ለግብጥ እለክተሪክ ልሸጥ ነው ተላለሕ መለስ ለባው.
Hopefully Woyane will not be there during the inauguration of the Great Abay dam!
God Bless Ethiopia!