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• WWF: World's Top 10 Rivers at Risk - Salween

  Created: 2007-03-22 07:59:49

  Extract from WWF Report: World's Top 10 Rivers at Risk

  Salween, Nujiang or Nu River
  
  Key threats: 16 proposed large dams, ineffective institutions and governance (WWF 2004). Political instability and ongoing civil war e...

• China's Gezhouba Group wins the bid for diversion tunnel construction of Myanmar's Tasang Dam

  Created: 2007-03-15 08:03:25

  China Gezhouba Group's web site

  China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council
  
  Unofficial Translation
  
  On 15 March 2007, China's Gezhouba Group received the notifica...

• The invisible costs of the Salween dam project

  Created: 2007-03-01 11:00:39

  The Nation

  The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat), has been touting at least five dam projects on the Salween River inside Burma and along the Thailand-Burma border as potentially enormous sources of "cheap" ener...

• Global rallies against Salween dams: Villagers along rivers fear lives will be ruined

  Created: 2007-03-01 10:58:40

  Bangkok Post

  A campaign against planned hydropower dams on the Salween river was launched yesterday in Bangkok and 18 other cities worldwide. Opponents of the plans say the dams will cause serious problems for ethnic minority gro...

• Dam will displace thousands: Reservoirs could send 100,000 more refugees into Thailand

  Created: 2007-03-01 10:56:51

  The Nation

  Karenni and Shan refugees from Burma yesterday urged the Thai government to stop building hydroelectric dams on the Salween River -warning that they would displace another 100,000 people.

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