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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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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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 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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March 29, 2011
Kasemsun Chinnavaso, director general of Thailand's Water Resources Department, stands on the banks of the Mekong River in Muang district, Nongkhai province, Thailand, in March 2010. One year after one of the driest years in half a century, tens of millions of residents along the Mekong River are still trying to determine the cause of [...]
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February 25, 2011
Farmer Virapan Tipsuna poses for a photograph in a dried-up irrigation canal in a rice field in Baan Nard village, Nongkhai province, Thailand in 2010. Thailand appears to be the region’s last hope in opposing an environmentally disastrous hydropower dam in northern Laos. Environmental activists are hoping that Thailand will put the breaks on Laos’ [...]
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