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World's most powerful dam planned for Congo River.(Brief article)

Plans have been rekindled for the construction of a 40billion [pounds sterling] hydropower dam on the Congo River, which could generate twice as much electricity as China's controversial Three Gorges Dam.

First proposed during the 1980s, the so-called Grand Inga Dam didn't get beyond the drawing board due to political instability in the region. However, delegates to the G8, seven African nations and representatives from global energy and finance companies met in London at the end of April to discuss plans to exploit one of the world's largest waterfalls by volume, located 145 kilometres from the mouth of the River Congo within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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