December 10, 2011
A file photo taken last July shows trucks and heavy machinery taking part in road work at the Xayaburi dam construction site in Xayaburi Province, Laos. Construction of the US$3.8-billion Xayaburi dam will be suspended pending further impact studies to be done by Japan, the four countries that share the lower reaches of the [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam will be the first of four member nations to take over gauging stations on the Mekong River from the Mekong River Commission (MRC)’s Secretariat next January, the government’s website reported Wednesday. According to the website, the stations belong to the project of Hydrological Cycle Observing System that the Secretariat introduced at a national [...]
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September 20, 2011
Land-locked neighbor reveals plans to start construction of controversial dam months before regional meeting decides on the issue A handout photo released by the US-based environmental group International Rivers shows construction on the Xayaburi dam’s access road and work-camps has gone ahead despite commitments by the government of Laos in April to temporarily suspend [...]
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September 10, 2011
Thai authorities arrested two men as they attempted to smuggle 120 dogs to Vietnam on Tuesday, according to the Bangkok Post. Civil volunteers stopped two pickup trucks carrying fertilizer sacks containing the dogs, 31 of which had suffocated, at Pho Sai village near the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province. The volunteers, who are [...]
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September 10, 2011
A file photo taken just downstream of the proposed site for the Xayaburi dam. Thailand doesn’t actually need the power the massive hydroelectric dam will create, experts have said. Laos plans to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River after changing the design to placate [...]
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July 16, 2011
Activists in the ongoing fight against Mekong dams worry that recent US opposition has come too little, too late. Cambodian fishermen cast their net into the Mekong River outside Phnom Penh in April. US senators have called for greater environmental safeguards for the Mekong River, but analysts remain doubtful that US influence is capable [...]
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May 3, 2011
One of the Xayaburi Dam’s most vocal critics says Laos’s ‘green energy’ claim is spurious A boat moves along the Mekong River at the site of the proposed Xayaburi Dam in Laos. If built, the dam would resettle over 2,100 people and affect the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, an expert says. The [...]
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April 27, 2011
A farmer feeds his cows on a dry riverbank in the Mekong Delta. Environmentalists have called for the cancellation of the first dam planned by Laos on the lower reaches of the Mekong River. Vietnam has officially asked Laos to delay the construction of a controversial dam on the lower Mekong River for ten years [...]
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April 24, 2011
Decision deferred on Xayaburi Dam, environmentalists say the project should be canceled People bathing in the Mekong River in Nong Khai Province in Thailand. Downstream riparian nations Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos have failed to reach an agreement on construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam unilaterally pursued by Laos. The Mekong River has gained [...]
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April 16, 2011
Mekong Delta fertility at risk, experts warn, as they reiterate calls to cancel plans to build the Xayaburi Dam in Laos A farmer feeds his cows on a dry riverbank in the Mekong Delta. Environmentalists have called for the cancellation of the first dam planned on the lower reaches of the Mekong River, saying [...]
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