Protesters ask for public hearing on the impacts
8/12/2011
Mongkol Bangprapa
Bangkok Post
Xayaburi dam protesters in eight provinces plan to petition the Administrative Court to revoke a Thai-Laos contract on joint usage of electricity produced by the dam on the Mekong River.
Calling themselves the "people network" in the Mekong basin, the group took to the streets after the Mekong River Commission (MRC) began a three-day meeting in Cambodia yesterday to discuss the controversial project.
The network said it disagreed with what it claimed was a "non-publicised" cabinet resolution in June that allowed the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand to sign a contract with Vientiane on electricity usage because the project has yet to go through a complete public hearing process in Thailand.
"When we learned the government had Egat sign the joint contract without announcing it, we decided to petition the court immediately," said network leader Itthiphon Khamsuk, who was informed of the resolution yesterday morning as his group was petitioning the government to hold a public hearing.
He blamed the government for pushing the project ahead without listening to input from people in the provinces that would likely be affected by the dam. The public hearing did "not follow the correct and complete procedures" as required by the Constitution, he said.
Although environment ministers from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam will discuss the dam at the ongoing MRC meeting, Mr Itthiphon said his group would not wait for the results because the project should be stopped.
The network yesterday petitioned two Senate committees to support a proposal to delay the project for 10 years.
Senate natural resource and environment committee chairman Surachai Liaobunloetchai said his committee and the Senate committee on education and corruption scrutiny will ask the government to clarify project details.
Although the dam will be built in Laos, the project should follow Thai laws, including a mandatory public hearing because Thailand will be the main beneficiary of the project. He said Laos had contracted with Thailand's Ch Karnchang to build the dam. Four Thai banks are the project's financial sources and Egat would buy 95% of the electricity produced by the dam, Mr Surachai said.
The 1,260-megawatt dam's future is uncertain. Officials at an April 19 meeting of the MRC approved a resolution requiring further study of the dam's potential impact on the Mekong River.
Vietnam and Cambodia are worried about the dam's impact on their crops, especially rice, because of fears over reduced water flow into the two countries.
5 comments:
To everyone who cares about mother earth,
Please support this protest. We cannot allow the dam to be built. The benefit is not the poor laotians, but the Thai business elites and corporations who are hungry for overconsumptions of energy. The issues are not regional, but a global concern. It's not just Cambodia and Vietnam the benefactor of the Great Mekong River, but human kind.
The environmental impact will be devastated. Vietnam and Cambodia will not be able to produce rice that had been traditionally done over many centuries. Fish and wild lives will be extinct. I will not elaborate any further. We all know the cause and effects, intended and unintended.
Can the world afford that? Think!!!!
this is a serious issue because the mekong river is an international waterway shared by many many countries in that region of asia. of course, they should keep talking about it because the country that will be affected the most is cambodia as the mekong river flows through most of cambodia. thailand is only interested in getting their electricity needs met, while laos could careless because they will make money from this. i think the world should put pressure on thailand the most because they were the backer of this controversial project. if the mekong river is all in laos, then it's probably ok as it won't affect other countries, but we know that's not the case, so that's out of the picture!
also, if laos is to go ahead with this project, eventually, cambodia too will start building dam on the mekong river, it's just a matter of the have and have not and the wait and see and the follow the flow, etc... it's also a matter of time before cambodia is building one as well. so, this laos project is important to discuss further on the impact it creates on other country like cambodia, you see. it shouldn't be a political thing, it's about the environment and the impact it create on the millions of lives that depended on this river system down stream.
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http://savecambodians.blogspot.com
Please all Khmer people reunite. Don't be like Syria country. Let's drive out illegal Vietnamese, protest against Hun Sen and Vietnamese Government secret plans in the blind eyes of International Communities.
All Khmer Reunited, Khmer Leur, Khmer Krom, Khmer Kandal and Khmer abroad, please spread the messages to the world and let the world know.
In the U.S., we will put the sign about BAD VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT SECRET PLANS TO SWALLOW CAMBODIA WITHOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES, UN, USA, EUROPEAN UNIONS, NATO AND POWERFUL COUNTRIES LIKE BRAZIL, INDIA, ETC KNOWING ABOUT BAD VIETNAMESE SECRET AGENTS AND INDIVIDUALS HIDING INSIDE KHMER SOCIETY WHO CAUSE THE PROBLEM AND CHAOS TO MAKE KHMER PEOPLE FIGHT KHMER PEOPLE, AND SECRET VIETNAMESE INDIVIDUALS PRETENDING TO BE KHMER CITIZENS THAT CAUSE KHMER PEOPLE FIGHT THEIR KHMER PEOPLE JUST LIKE KHMER ROUGES KILLING THEIR PEOPLE LIKE THAT IN THE BLIND EYES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OR FOREIGNERS AND GULLIBLE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
ហួសពេលហើយខ្មែរល្ងង់ខ្លៅឯងរាល់គ្នា!
សរសេរខ្មែរក៏មឹនគ្រប់ជ្រុង សរសេរអងគ្លេស
ក៏មឹនគ្រប់ជ្រុង...មានតែធ្វើខ្ញុំកញ្ជះយួនប៉ុណ្ណោះ
Your dumb Khmer Kings are worthless..
Hun Sèn will be irrelevant in the very near future and there will be more and brighter Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet smarter ones to lead Viet-Cambodia...
«Vos ignorants Khmers, qu'est-ce-que vous allez faire à part d'être l'esclave des Viets!?»
We, Viet, have been doing everything we can to spare some of you dumb Khmer left over from the exceptionally-planned Killing Field...
The past is history...The winner always makes and rewrites history...
We, Viet, have been doing just that...and there is nothing you dumb Khmer can do about it! What was Khmer's is now Viet's...and it remains that way for all of you dumb khmer's life time
Let me tell you something else:
GOD already knows, dumb Khmer is hopeless. We, Viet, are already controlling Viet-Cambodia from top to bottom, from the Senate to the farm land...
Viet is everywhere in Viet-Cambodia from farmer to technician, from nurse to doctor, from firefighter to engineer, from rubber plantation owner/worker to Hun Sen's political advisor and bodyguards including Angkor Wat's owner...You all name it and Viet is there...Khmer doesn't do squat besides getting addicted to Viet's ass in Viet-Cambodia, even foreigners are enjoying it nicely and quietly too...
Once again, whether or not all you dumb Khmer surrender yourselves to Viet, Khmer is now deep-rooted Viet, and irreversibly so already.
Challenge me if all of you dumb Khmer can. We have millions of us (legally the majority thanks to that dumb Hun Sen) that will vote for Viet-Khmer candidate legally and democratically forever, even the outside world would support and agree and as a matter of factly, there is not much the outside world can do about it...
How Sam Raingsy and/or any of your worthless so-called dumb heroe(s) including the stupid dumb king Sihanouk of yours that just wants to reign and rule plan to win Cambodia back? The Federation of Indochina under Viet's protectorate is here to stay on this planet earth for real. How do all of you dumb Khmer think or plan to de-vietnamize it???
KRT is just a show to entertain the world. We, Viet, are that good and smart.
Can Khmer put up the second Killing fields to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
Okay you dumb Khmer - put it up or shut up while we, Viet, are domesticating you for the bright future of the Federation of Indochina!
It's all too late for you dumb Khmer already!!!
Ms. Soap
P.s Think about how all of our Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet offsprings/Half-breeds would look beautifully and be smart like in our Federation of Indochina???
តើខ្មែរអាចសំឡាប់ប្រជាជន យួន ខ្មែរ រាប់លាន
អ្នកបានដូចដែល វៀត ធ្វើនោះទេ?
ស្ដាប់ឮទេខ្មែរ ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ???
Once again, can Khmer put up the second Killing Field to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
«Est-ce que vous m'entendez les ignorants Khmers?
Juste Pour me répéter:
Peut Khmer créer un deuxième «Killing Field» pour se débarasser des millions de Viet-Khmer qui sont maintenant les habitants légaux du Viet-Cambodge comme nous, les Viets, avions fait?»
KI-Media is yesterday news and ought to shut down for good or better yet, come kiss our Viet's ass now!
Our Viet's ass (80 millions) is resource #1. We defeated the French and the Americans just with our ass. We have suicidal commandoes to win the war. What do you dumb Khmer have? We, Viet, can let loose another million of our new fresh ass freely into Viet-Cambodia shortly...as per Hun Sen's agreement just to let him rule...
What can all of you dumb Khmer do to stop it?
«Vos ignorants Khmers, qu'est-ce-que vous allez faire à part d'être l'esclave des Viets!?»
តើខ្មែរល្ងង់ខ្លៅឯងធ្វើអីកើតទៅ ក្រៅពីធ្វើខ្ញុំយួន
នោះ???
DUMB, VIETCONGS/VIETNAMS, YOUR SMART IN THE BAD WAYS BY KILLING KHMERS PEOPLE AND TAKE OVER THEIR LANDS AND COUNTRY ETC. EVEN IN AMERICA, WHEN YOU (DUMB VIETCONGS), DO SOMETHING WRONGS.
1. YOU TELLING AMERICANS PEOPLE, YOU ARE KHMER/CAMBODIAN.
2 WHEN YOU (DUMB VIETCONGS) DO SOMETHING GOOD, YOU TELLING AMERICANS
PEOPLE, YOU ARE VIETNAMESE OR CHINESE.
DON'T LOOKS DOWN ON KHMERS PEOPLE AS YOU ARE SO DUMB TOO.
AND THE WORLD IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE NOW, MAYBE YOUR (DUMB EVILS VIETCONGS) GO TO HELL SOON.
STINKY LITTLE SAIGON,DOG EATER GOLDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA!!!
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