(October 1, 2006) Environmental impact assessment on the Cambodian part of Srepok River
due to hydropower development in Vietnam.
Review of SWECO Groner’s environmental impact assessment of Srepok EIA
(October 1, 2006) The Srepok EIA review was compiled by the 3S Working Group (a coalition of national and international NGOs and partners working to support communities living along the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong Rivers) with technical and professional review and comments.
Dams on Salween – test for Burmese, Thai juntas
(September 28, 2006) Will South-east Asia’s last untouched body of water, the Salween river, emerge as a testing ground for the future relationship between this region’s oldest military regime, in Burma, and the new junta on the block, in Thailand?
Warning Signs
(September 15, 2006) A new report details the preparatory work for a giant dam on the Salween River that is taking place in the midst of an active war zone in Burma’s Shan state.
Rights groups urge Thais to pull out of Salween dam project
(September 15, 2006) Rights activists are calling on the Thai government and investors to withdraw their support for the construction of a dam on the Salween River in Burma’s Shan state, claiming the work will disrupt the lives of people living in the area.
Moves to rapidly integrate resource-rich Tibet
(September 15, 2006) China has intensified its long-term quest to integrate the remote land and people of Tibet by building new infrastructure and drawing up plans to tap the Himalayan region’s virgin water sources and its rich reserves of copper, gold and hydrocarbons.
Dam the Salween, damn its people
(September 14, 2006) Controversial plans to dam the Salween River in Burma will proceed without a standard environmental-impact assessment study, despite serious concerns about the effect the project will have on the area’s people and natural surroundings.
Key questions for Malaysia’s Bakun dam project
(September 12, 2006) Malaysia’s huge Bakun hydroelectric dam is three-quarters complete and within four years it will drown an area of jungle the size of Singapore. The trouble is, there is still no customer for its power.
Global call to action against the Salween dams in Burma
(September 6, 2006) Groups opposed to the dams planned for the Salween River in Burma are circulating a petition and planning demonstrations outside Thai embassies and consulates on Sept. 21.
Salween dam project ‘likely to go ahead without study’
(September 4, 2006) The controversial Salween dam projects are likely to go ahead without social and environmental impact studies to avoid interfering in Burma’s internal affairs, a senior official of the Thai utility EGAT says.
SOE chiefs could lose their jobs
(August 23, 2006) In an annual examination of the performance of state-owned enterprises, Sinohydro Corp. — which is involved in dam-building on the Salween River in Burma — was one of four companies downgraded because of safety or pollution accidents.
Asia’s coming water wars
(August 22, 2006) In Asia, three regions are the most likely candidates for water-related conflict: Central Asia, South Asia and the Mekong sub-region in Southeast Asia.
Eyewitness on the Salween
(August 9, 2006) ‘At both Maji and Songta there is much activity. Generators rumble, power tools blast into the riverbanks. Trucks full of workers and engineers are everywhere. According to some reports there have been no environmental impact surveys.’
A damming indictment
(August 9, 2006) More than 30 dams planned across mainland Southeast Asia will bring electricity, population upheaval, food shortages and ecological destruction.
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