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fossil fuels. this is data be a business robots in berlin. welcome to the program. plan for the world's largest hydro electric project have been given new momentum australia. as for to skew metals, group has been awarded exclusive rights to develop the ground in a network of dams, in congo that will be twice the size of the current global biggest. the aim is to use the powerful ingle full is at the mouth of the congo river to generate vast amounts of electricity for it to work up to 6 more dams on top of 2 that are already there. and several power plants needs to be built. the finished projects would be capable of producing at least 40 gigawatts of electricity. that's twice as much as china's 3 gorgeous down, which is currently the world's largest. it's enough power to give a 40 percent of africa power needs. total cost for the projects are estimated to be around $80000000000.00. dollars grunting has been in the all things since the 1900

ninety's. but until now they just haven't been the money around to make it happen. let's discuss the project further with trisha ready, who is a climate activists with the n g a womach africa. she joins us from south africa. thanks for being on the program. up 40 percent of africa, energy needs filled with renewable sources. sounds like that can only be a good thing. and yeah, so that's an interesting one because a big hydro electric dams are always sort of lumped in together with renewable energy. and we believe that it's a controversial sort of use of the term of renewable energy. we don't actually believe that the idea of having big hydro electric dams should be considered as part of the overall set of electricity mix in terms of the

transition to, to green energy. but this would be a major shift away from fossil fuels. yes, so i'm not sure, but a major shift away necessarily from fossil fuels. there's also a lot of other tucson just projects coming up as well. but the thing about big hydro electric dams is it's, it's very little known that there's also, you know, massive impacts that they actually cause, including climate impacts. there's several time it impacts that i would go into detail here, but he's a little known and so is sort of used as a way to say that, you know, be these big dams are basically climate friendly and they really are not added to that. of course, or the other impacts from big dams. they are massive displacements of people at the

site of the dam, who usually sort of depend on the water from the, from the rivers bear from, in this case. because over there, the last 2 bits of in fact that will bolt in the 90s. i think people who had displaced from, from those gams, at the time, thousands of people have still not even been given compensation for that. there is a huge amount of other environmental impacts as well. and in general, be as well as that the impacts on the displacement of people this project and show to create maybe hundreds of thousands of jobs. i mean that's that surely something that's welcome. so that's a controversial issue as well. i mean,

if you look at the case of south africa, for example. so africa is supposed to be the major off take off the electricity that's going to be produced from the in goddamn the electricity that is created is, is, will actually create no jobs in south africa. in fact, in many more because we have, we're running low on time and, and your organization is actually mainly focused on women's access to resources. and why is your organized ization so interested in the, the grounding of project? i think because we see that most of the major impacts are faced and borne by women, ultimately woman. because if they prescribe rolls, if cara's in communities, they're the ones who go and fetch the water from the rivers for the communities.

they are the ones that actually protect and defend the land, the girl from the land. and so if this be destructive projects that are coming in, you can see that there's going to be multiple impacts that they faced because of it . if you look at that figure specifically, and this is all coming off from a, from a latest report that we've just done, which shows the socio economic costs off the inner, to south africa. it shows that woman will be disproportionately impacted as well in a negative way in south africa. ok, tricia ready from william in africa? thanks a lot for joining us on the business. thank you. bye. now to spain, sierra nevada, where mineral water is an important natural resource so much so they've attracted several multi nationals ego to make

a profit. but let's say climate change is already rubbing them the ground water. and the company's just making matters worse. the new buckling facility at its main plant in but say it is the pride and joy of i could day a c, e o. the high tech conveyor can fill 45000 bottles now with mineral water. nasa national record i'm a day is invested over 20000000 euros in the plant in recent years to try to muscle its way to the front of the hartford mineral water market. almost to nelson and where the 9th biggest producer enough to use to keep developing the equity as brand and expand internationally as well as the north. honeywell interlock and yeah, that's exactly what environmental activists didn't lose. you don't want

at the foot of the sierra nevada, the company build a 2nd factory fucking anger amongst local residents. and then they say the water is needed locally and shouldn't be exported to china. life might be gum in some of the 50 daddio. now we have a water deficit of 1400000 cubic meters a year in this region. and they want to build a factory would uses up a 1000000 cubic meters a year. how can they be allowed to exploit the ground water here in this region where there isn't enough that we fiddle the snow, kept peaks of the sierra nevada home to some of the best mineral water sources in spain. let's check several multinational companies to known and generate $30000000.00 euros the year sales with its land on brand ness

land. coca cola are also taking advantage of spain, profitable mineral water business. the climate change threatens the regions water supplies if and i thought i already getting dry climate change is just making that worse on la previously. and i think i'm the mighty go all ready seeing less overall rainfall. you said we get sporadic downpours that a lot because the soil can't absorb them, eat men all. probably town today is doesn't want to hear about the company even plans to expand a 2nd plant by the end of the 8 liter jugs slated to be rolling off the new facility there. no one knows what effect that might have on the environment. because sofa, the company hasn't had to provide any studies on the, as you now a quick look at some of the other business stories making headlines. you finance minutes have approved spending plans from 12 countries to help their economies

recover from the pandemic proposals from italy, spain and france, are among those given the green light and brussels on tuesday. b. u is set to don't out. 800000000000 euros on the recovery time. boeing plans to temporarily cut back production of its 787 dreamliner playing after inspections on cover new production issues. playing make us at the defect isn't a safety risk, but it will further delay deliveries of the jet, which has been plagued by production problems since last autumn. and german and i'm stanza is changing the way greets passengers to be more gender inclusive. when boarding instead of the previous ladies and gentlemen or mine, a dominant, dominant and heaven in german customers will simply welcome aboard or couldn't talk . and the automated world is set to change. and honestly, in the next few years, germany's folks foggins says it wants to leave the way and has now presented its overhauled strategy, doubling down on him ability digitalization services among the big projects and

800000000. your a development center at its headquarters in full spoke in germany. one thing that won't change though is the company ceo, his contract has just been extended for another 4 years, allowing him to lead the new strategy. have a t says folks back must be ready for an electric future by 2030. it's high. the german car maker has a lot of catching up to do side tracked in recent years by the fall out from the emissions cheating scandal. but when it comes to emissions, these is promising 0 by 2040 for business models, that means revenue and profit pools will shift gradually through 2031st from internal combustion engines, or a c s to electric vehicles and later to software and services. the i c market is said to decline by over 20 percent over the next 10. yes. it's

the same time by 2030. the global electric, the market will be on par this i, c, e, c, v w same are ambitious, hoping to become the global market leader, an electric mobility. that means overtaking the world's most valuable car, company, tesla, and tackling long standing problems of high costs and low profitability. v. w will ultimately have to earn back the 73000000000 euros it plans to spend on electric technology. so for the next 4 years, it will use the money to upgrade its german plants, and it will build a battery factory in germany. but that won't mean independence from asian suppliers . it says it will do it together with a chinese partner. i just finally, fitness fanatics in sol, say new corona virus rule. as for jim's are really putting them off that stride. that's because the restrictions now limits how fast music can be to $120.00 beats per minute and aim said limit breathing and sweating during aerobics and spinning

classes. that means, for example, bts is hits. dynamite is allowed, but size gangnam style is not new rules also limit treadmills to 6 kilometers per hour. and by the use of showers. that's all for me in the business team here in berlin until next time, goodbye. ah, the the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and contact the corona virus? coven 19 special. next on dw, the we travel back in time to watch.

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