The kaleta dam will be constructed on the Konkoure River which ORIGINATES in the Fouta Djallon Highlands around Mamou, and it has a total length of between 300 and 400 miles. La-Guinea is the only Nation the Konkoure River traverses before emptying in an estuary on the Atlantic coast, although its volume is supplemented by a couple of tributaries like the Kakrima river..

Although The Gambia River is a transboundary body of water that comes under the purview of the OMVG, The Konkoure River is not an international body of water and therefore does not come under the purview of the OMVG. All collaboration with the OMVG (and there have been many) regarding the Kaleta dam project, were done in the spirit of Economies of Scale and general global watershed and environmental management concerns.

This will be my last comment regarding the unfounded and insiduous RUMOUR that La-Guinea and President Alpha Conde were going it alone on the Kaleta Dam project. The chatter was designed to sow seeds of unnecessary discord and rift between the peoples of La-Guinea, Senegal, and Gambia. That will not happen. Not now. Not on this insiduous rumour. Try again.

Haruna.

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From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [G_L] Karim, I share with you a 2008 article explaining precursor collaborative work on the Kaleta Dam project. Haruna.

SInce you mentioned that President Alpha Conde and La-Guinea were going it alone at Kaleta, I have been on a search as to how you came to that opinion. So instead of blow it off as hot-air and cluelessness, I will give you information to the contrary.

Here is a story that ran in hydropower.com. WHile I'm here, I want to caution you that there is a saboteur websites and fosse organizations, some run by certain La-Guineans whose graft and graffignette has been up-ended by President Alpha Conde' and the dawn of democracy in La-Guinea. I want you to use all your faculties before taking gaucherie and pseudo-scientific opinion as gospel truth. I also encourage you to educate yourself about the Garafiri Dam around the same area as Kaleta is proposed to be.

West African Power Pool, Chinese firm to develop hydro projects


CONAKRY, Guinea 2/8/08 (HCI)
The West African Power Pool (WAPP) has signed a partnership agreement with Chinese hydropower builder SinoHydro Corp. to develop West Africa hydroelectric projects.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said February 5 that the memorandum of understanding calls for the parties to work together to develop the CLSG power system to boost electricity supply to Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. The project involves construction of four power stations and a dam, an ECOWAS statement said.

It said SinoHydro also expressed ?serious interest as a major strategic partner? in developing the 215-MW Kaleta hydroelectric project in Guinea and the 90-MW Sambangalou project in Gambia on a public-private partnership model. Those projects, in the Gambia River Basin, would supply electricity to member states of the Organization for the Development of the River Gambia (OMVG), Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Senegal.

The three-year agreement, which is automatically renewable for another two years, also requires SinoHydro to provide technical assistance that will enable the Benin-based WAPP to develop expertise in hydropower development, design, operations, and power system planning. SinoHydro also is expected to help WAPP, a unit of ECOWAS, in securing credit or participating as a strategic partner to develop power projects in ECOWAS member states.

WAPP and the European Investment Bank signed a grant agreement in December providing funding of two pre-investment studies for an electricity interconnection project among Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. (HNN 1/3/08)

China's Export-Import Bank agreed in 2007 to fund construction of the US$1 billion, 750-MW Souapiti hydroelectric project on the Konkoure River in Guinea. In 2002, a feasibility study of Souapiti and Kaleta was commissioned. (HNN 7/10/07)

A half-dozen international development agencies last year pledged US$402 million to help finance OMVG hydropower development in the Gambia River Basin. OMVG members agreed to develop Kaleta and Sambangalou. (HNN 5/28/07)

Elsewhere in the region, Sierra Leone plans to complete the 50-MW Bumbuna hydro project and a grid link to Guinea (HNN 10/23/07), Liberia seeks to rebuild and expand 64-MW Mount Coffee (HNN 9/3/07), and Guinea is pursuing the 75-MW Garafiri hydro project. (HNN 6/22/06)


 

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