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  • Plans for some old dams unfortunately never die

    Bangkok Post

    Perhaps Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej thinks it is still the 1960s. As new prime minister, he autocratically announced water diversion projects for the Mekong and Salween rivers, callously calling these internation...

  • Villagers to be displaced by dam project

    DVB

    Twelve villages will be flooded and more than 5000 acres of farmland submerged if the Upper Paunglaung dam project continues, the Kayan Women’s Union said in a report published this month.

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  • Chinese experts appeal to authorities to suspend big dam projects in southwest China following Sichuan's deadly earthquake

    Ran in the First Business Daily (Diyi caijing bao) on June 12, 2008
    Translated by Three Gorges Probe

    Experts in geology, water conservancy, and environmental protection have jointly appealed to au...
  • Destructive mega dreams

    Bangkok Post

    The end is near. Or so they believe. That is why the Samak administration is pushing through a series of mega-projects to fatten its cronies' bank accounts while the country is already deep in environmental crisis. ...

  • Damming China's River Wild

    TIME

    Yu Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his...

  • PM approves 2 water management projects

    Bangkok Post

    Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej yesterday approved two water management projects worth around 60 billion baht to feed agricultural areas across the country.

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  • Burma dams would flood rebel territories

    SFGate

    Thailand - In the dry season, the Salween River cuts a multicolored gash of green, gray and beige as it carries Himalayan snowmelt through steaming jungles along the Thailand-Burma border en route to the Andaman Sea. On th...

  • Group slams environmental impact of dam projects

    DVB

    The Burma Rivers Network has urged foreign companies to reconsider their investments in dam and gas projects in Burma due to the devastating impact on the local environment.

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