Norway, Sweden asked to fund study of giant Stiegler’s Gorge dam

News April 28, 2006

Tanzania has requested funding from Sweden and Norway for feasibility and environmental studies for four hydropower projects. The huge and controversial Stiegler’s Gorge project, which is almost ten times bigger than Bujagali in Uganda, is back on the agenda. Norway spent NOK 150 million on the project before it was dropped in the early 1980s.

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