PHNOM PENH (Cambodia Herald) - The Ministry of Water
Resources and Meteorology and the Cambodian National Mekong Committee
said Wednesday they strongly objected to the proposed Xayaburi dam in
Laos, which would be the first dam across the Mekong mainstream.
Water Resources and Meteorology Minister Lim Keanhor said he had been invited to visit the project site in northern Laos. But he said he asked for the visit to be postponed as water levels were rising.
"We have to wait until the water is receding," he said. "What we have to see is whether we will benefit or suffer from it ... If are going to suffer from this project, we will discuss the thing carefully."
Water Resources and Meteorology Minister Lim Keanhor said he had been invited to visit the project site in northern Laos. But he said he asked for the visit to be postponed as water levels were rising.
"We have to wait until the water is receding," he said. "What we have to see is whether we will benefit or suffer from it ... If are going to suffer from this project, we will discuss the thing carefully."
The $3.5 billion project is being financed by a Thai company and would generate 1,260 megawatts which would be mostly sold to Thailand.
Cambodia and Vietnam are the two countries expected to be the most adversely affected by the project and have called for further studies on the impacts, especially on Mekong fisheries resources and sediment flows.
4 comments:
Dam in Lao will be destroyed environment and killed millions of fishes and destroy livelihood of the people whose use Maekong as the source of income to feed their families.Electric can only provide to the rich small percentage of population from Lao to Cambodia and Vietnam.Poor laosian and khmers or Viets lived without electricity for many centuries,we don't need not now,not ever....
Dam is bad for a whole South East Asian countries,its only benefits China and the rich whose can afford to buy an electricity from this dam generated.Majority poor people don't needs dam.
Yobal Khmer.
If the laos government is stubborn and go ahead with the mega dam project, cambodia should invade laos, take over it country and then lease the dam project to sok kong or other viet company and share the profits and deposit in hun sen's personal bank account making him the world richest prime minister is the most poor nation in south east asia.
Let go and rape the Lao PLDR. Stupid stubborn Lao won't listen to reasoning. Teach them a listen to respect our lives too, we depend on the fishery , if they block the water path, all fish will die out.
Rapin' Loasian won't solves Dam's problem,China is behind all the Dam building project,go rap Chinese-men that working on the site.
If this project complete Laosians/khmers /Yuons will be suffered,this dam will make China richer for millions years to come.The poor khmers,Laosians and Yuons whose rely on the river will be suffered greatly.
The water will killed native animals and environmental catastrophe to the region
the poor people lived along side river will be crying and Chinese getting rich and laughing at Laosians.
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