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Hanoi - The Vietnamese government has called for more research into the impact of a hydropower dam on the Mekong River before construction begins in Laos, local media reported Tuesday.
The river is important to the people along its banks, the Viet Nam News newspaper quoted Nguyen Phuong Nga, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as saying.
'Mekong nations need to work closely together to exploit and use the natural resources in a fair and proper manner in order to protect the environment,' she said.
She made the statement before the Mekong River Commission - consisting of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia - was scheduled to meet Tuesday in Vientiane to discuss the Xayaburi dam.
Even if Laos does not receive the regional committee's approval, it may proceed with the 3.5-billion-dollar dam on the lower Mekong River, which flows through the four counties. Most of the electricity it would produce would be exported to Thailand.
Both Vietnam and Cambodia oppose the dam. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) environmental group warned that the dam's environmental impact assessment was 'woefully inadequate and fell well below international standards for such studies.'
The WWF and 263 international non-governmental organizations have called for a 10-year moratorium on all lower Mekong dams until full assessments are made on their impacts.
Environmentalists said they fear that the construction of the Xayaburi dam would disrupt fish migrations in the lower Mekong, which would have devastating impacts on food supplies for millions of people.
China has already built four hydropower dams in Yunnan province on the upper Mekong, projects that have also been criticized by environmental groups and downstream governments.
3 comments:
Tout le Monde doit protester contre la construction du barrage sur le Mékong.
C'est notre richesse qui est partie en fumée , si ce barrage sera construit .
Des millions de gens vivent avec le Mékong .
Le peuple indochinois doit réagir et doit empêcher la construction de ce barrage .
C'est vraiment une folie ! ne laissez pas construire ce barrage , si vous ne voulez pas être dans le catastrophe. Gardez notre richesse naturelle.
Sesan river dam(was Vietnam dam) has caused a lot of problems in Cambodia:Khmer people getting sick
by water pollution,fishes wiping out,
rice fields damaging,trees destroying
and dead.The Vietnam govt did not care about what happened in Khmer
side.
The Xayaburi dam is not Lao dam,it
is still Vietnam dam because Lao
is a province of Vietnam.
i know, viet/youn thugs are so hypocrite! they built dam on the sesan that impact and caused destruction down stream in cambodia and now they try to tell laos and cambodia what to do! shame on viet/youn thugs hypocrites! they have a wake up call now!
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