Building dams on the Mekong mainstream will destroy the Mekong’s fisheries and subject millions of people to food shortages and poverty.
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Dams on the Mekong mainstream would destroy fisheries for millions
20 NovLaos: Damming the Sekong - Norconsult wipes Cambodia off the map
29 OctRecent studies of dams in Laos ignore the impacts downstream in Cambodia.
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Laos: Norwegian and Chinese “aid” helps dam the Xeset River
31 MayA Norwegian consulting firm and Chinese construction firm are benefiting from dam-building in Laos. Even if villagers receive compensation, their livelihoods, fisheries and rivers will be irrevocably damaged.
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Laos: Suez Energy International and the Houay Ho dam
27 MaySuez Energy International is avoiding its responsibility for the impacts of the Houay Ho dam.
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Laos: World Bank finances the Nam Theun 2 dam regardless of its own policies
14 AprOn 31 March 2005, the World Bank’s board approved US$270 million in guarantees and loans for the Nam Theun 2 dam. It did so in breach of its own policies.
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Laos: Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption
19 MarThe World Bank claims that it has investigated corruption in the Nam Theun 2 project. If everything is so squeaky clean, why won’t the Bank release the reports of its investigations?
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Large dams, climate change and forced evictions
23 JanDam building companies are looking to gain new subsidies through carbon financing. At the same time, they refuse to avoid projects which involve forced evictions.
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Laos: Ongoing problems with the Asian Development Bank’s “successful” Nam Leuk dam
21 JulThe ADB claims that the Nam Leuk dam is a successful project. Recent research in Laos indicates serious ongoing problems for villagers affected by the project.
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Laos: Dams and the forgotten people of the Boloven Plateau
25 MarIn 2001, the Belgian company Tractebel bought the Houay Dam in south Laos. For the Heuny and Jrou indigenous people the dam has been a disaster. Tractebel has so far ignored their problems.
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Laos: Vietnamese consortium plans to build six dams in Laos
25 SepVietnam’s dam building boom spreads into neighbouring Laos, despite the serious impact of dams already built in southern Laos.
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Vietnam: Na Hang dam – the reality of sustainable development?
25 AugOne of the UNDP’s projects in Vietnam is the management of the Na Hang Nature Reserve. Forests in the Nature Reserve are being bulldozed to make way for a hydropower dam, yet UNDP remains strangely quiet.
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Laos: French company pulls the plug on Nam Theun 2
24 JulIn July 2003, Electricité de France announced that it was pulling out of the Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos.
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Vietnam starts resettlement to make way for massive Son La dam
25 AprThe Son La People’s Committee has moved the first 52 people of a total of 91,000 that will be forcibly evicted to make way for the massive Son La dam. At least 13 indigenous groups live in the 275 square kilometres that would be flooded by the reservoir behind the dam.
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Laos: Asian Development Bank to support proposed Nam Theun 2 dam
24 MarThe Asian Development Bank is considering financing the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam. Although the project may never be built, it has already had serious impacts on people and forests in Laos.
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Skanska pulls out of dam building . . . or does it?
25 FebThe environment department at Skanska, one of the world’s largest construction firms, announced recently that Skanska is to pull out of dam building. Unfortunately it is not true.
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Laos: Nam Theun 2 dam – Fighting corruption World Bank style
24 FebWhere has the money that a Lao military logging company made from logging the reservoir area of the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam? The World Bank doesn’t seem to care.
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Laos: The impact of the Nam Theun 2 dam on Indigenous Peoples
25 SepMore than 130,000 people would see their livelihoods destroyed if the Nam Theun 2 dam were built. The project has already had a serious impact on indigenous communities living in the reservoir area.
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Vietnam: Swedish involvement in dam that will hit Cambodians
22 JulThe Yali Falls dam has caused devastating impacts on downstream communities in Cambodia. The Vietnamese government is building another dam on the same river, with Swedish help.
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Laos: IUCN’s controversial role in the Nam Theun 2 dam
25 MarUntil recently, Electricté de France, one of the developers of the Nam Theun 2 dam, was an IUCN “partner in conservation”. Perhaps that explains why IUCN doesn’t oppose the proposed dam.
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Vietnam: Na Hang dam threatens forests, people and wildlife
25 FebThe Vietnamese government is planning to build a dam inside the Na Hang Nature Reserve.
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Laos: Planned Nam Theun 2 dam leads to increased logging
25 SepInstead of providing independent advice on the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam, the International Advisory Group has become a promoter of the project, despite documenting the impacts that project-related logging is having on the forests nearby.
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Strangling the life-source of million: China dams the Mekong
24 MaySomething like 60 million people have been evicted from their homes to make way for China’s 22,000 dams. China is adding to the toll by building a series of dams on the Mekong.
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Laos: Cutting the trees to save the forest
25 MarFor the last decade a military run logging company has been logging the 450 square kilometre reservoir area behind the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam.
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