The mainland faces an ecological catastrophe if the authorities continue to ignore environmental protection, an expert warned yesterday.
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Unnecessary increase of Thailand’s electricity capacity
(October 13, 1999) However, irrespective of the price, Thailand has no need of additional electricity capacity.
Jasmine set to sell stake in Lao power project
(October 13, 1999) THAI telecommunications company Jasmine International Plc yesterday said it had begun talks aimed at selling its 10 per cent stake in the Nam Thun 2 power project in Laos.
Monuments of the millennium
(October 12, 1999) ASIA’S monuments for the start of the next millennium will not be tall towers or staggering statues but giant hydroelectric dams.
PRESS RELEASE Philippine government to dismantle Marcos’ nuclear plant
(October 19, 1999) The debt-ridden Philippine government has decided to dismantle and sell the assets of the Bataan nuclear plant. The $2.3-billion (U.S. dollars throughout) plant, a painful reminder of the Ferdinand Marcos regime, costs Filipino taxpayers more than $170,000 a day in interest and accounts for more than 5 per cent of the country’s total debt.
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(October 8, 1999) Landslides destroyed hundreds of homes in the Three Gorges dam area, according to a September 3, 1999, report inHua Xia Wen Zha (HXWZ), a Chinese-language Internet magazine based in the United States.
Letter to Pierre Pettigrew: PI objections to the Gowling review of EDC
(October 8, 1999) Probe International believes that the Gowlings report is biased in favour of those who wish to maintain EDC’s privileged status.
Three Gorges resettlement in chaos, awaiting central government directives
(October 8, 1999) A recent fact-finding trip to the Three Gorges area reveals that the resettlement of up to two million people is in chaos.
Power to the people could cost
(October 7, 1999) Even if the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) needed the power, the massive Nam Theun 2 hydro dam can’t compete with Thailand’s new private power producers, writes PI’s Grainne Ryder.
World Bank sends inspection team to China to probe dam project
(October 6, 1999) The World Bank has sent a team of experts to China to evaluate criticisms of a vast dam and irrigation project it wants to support, a Bank official said here Tuesday.
Pressure from China results in passage of controversial project
(October 6, 1999) Canada abstains during World Bank vote
China resettlement plan starts debate over Tibetan culture
(October 6, 1999) For a number of years, the People’s Republic of China has been accused of following a policy designed to change the culture of Tibet by overwhelming the indigenous population with massive numbers of ethnic Chinese settlers.
“Model” Laotian dam an economic and environmental failure
(October 1, 1999) New report exposes Nordic investors’ double standards on property rights and environmental protection
The Theun-Hinboun public-private partnership: Notes- part 3 of 3
(October 1, 1999)
The Theun-Hinboun public-private partnership- part 2 of 3