ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the problems of justice and governance in the water-energy nexus for hydropower development and addresses their transnational dimensions, which is produced by the involvement of transnationally operating corporations and financiers. It explores China's hydropower investment in Africa, and describes Chinese engagement in Ghana's electricity sector. The chapter explores the case of resettlement in the Bui Dam project. Looking at Chinese activities in Africa in the infrastructure and energy sectors, China funded about two-thirds of African infrastructure since 2007, surpassing the World Bank. The Bui Dam forms a key part of Ghana's electricity supply strategy with the aim to divert economic growth away from the South to the North. Bui is firmly embedded in a discourse of reliable energy supply for economic growth as well as green growth. In 2007, the Ghanaian parliament passed Act 740, establishing the Bui power authority as project owner with full responsibility for planning, executing and managing the Bui project.