Hacker Cinema
Dam Nation
2020 · Film · documentary · 4 min
Directed by Grace Pimentel Simbulan
This video focuses on Dumagat activists, Nanay Nene, Tatay Lope, and Chieftain Rodrigo and their continuous struggle to organize resistance against a Chinese-funded mega dam in Quezon. The Kaliwa Dam Project will displace numerous Dumagat and non-Dumagat families living near the dam site— yet another example of development aggression.
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I don't know. It was a thing a few years ago, I believe I learned about it in the documentary Dam Nation (but I might be mistaken).
Google no longer works for me to find things again that I vaguely remember. What I do remember was that they had taken out multiple smaller dams on a river, and if memory serves me right, a group had bought them for a reasonably low amount as the previous owners had no more use for them.
Most of what I found with a quick search from what I remembered were public/private partnerships to remove obsolete dams (Riverkeeper seems to be a larger player).