(November 25, 2004) MEDIA RELEASE Electricité de France (EdF) could come under scrutiny in France for its role in the controversial Nam Theun 2 hydropower project in Lao PDR.
Mekong commission downplays impact of Chinese dams
(November 20, 2004) A regional water management body of the Mekong basin has downplayed the impact of Chinese dams on water levels in the Mekong river, but an environmental group has criticised its analysis.
IUCN in firing line for backing dam
(November 19, 2004) Activists say the World Conservation Union (IUCN) risks irrelevance for ignoring plight of elephants.
Nam Theun 2 dam will destroy the livelihoods of poor villagers
(November 18, 2004) Ten years ago, the World Bank helped finance Thailand’s Pak Mun dam. Many of our supporters will remember that this mega-dam wiped out a productive fishery, flooded farmland, and impoverished dozens of thriving communities in northeast Thailand. The World Bank promised the villagers fair compensation and new rural livelihoods in model resettlement villages. In fact, the villagers were given mostly barren land, on which they could not survive. Most left the resettlement villages in search of jobs elsewhere.
Talks with China on Mekong river
(November 4, 2004) Water rights and dams are on the informal agenda for talks between ministers of five Southeast Asian countries and a senior Chinese
official.
World Bank decision on Lao dam due by year end: Thai official
(October 13, 2004) The World Bank is likely to finalize its decision on providing financial support to the $1.2 billion Nam Theun 2 hydropower project in Laos by the end of this year, a senior official at Thailand’s Energy Ministry said Wednesday.
Consultations continue over funding guarantee for controversial power project in Lao PDR
(October 13, 2004) The World Bank would do well to take more than usual care over this decision: powerful people in the U.S. Government are taking a close interest in its lending policies and aren’t happy with the Bank in relation to development funding.
PI News Release: World Bank report confirms Nam Theun 2 is not Thailand’s least-cost power option
(October 12, 2004) A study commissioned by the World Bank reports Thailand has alternatives to the Nam Theun 2 hydro project in Laos that are cheaper and commercially viable, but that they were excluded from the country’s official power development plans.
PRESS RELEASE World Bank report confirms Nam Theun 2 is not Thailand’s least-cost power option
(October 12, 2004) A study commissioned by the World Bank reports Thailand has alternatives to the Nam Theun 2 hydro project in Laos that are cheaper and commercially viable, but that they were excluded from the country’s official power development plans.
PRESS RELEASE World Bank report confirms Nam Theun 2 is not Thailand’s least-cost power option
(October 12, 2004) A study commissioned by the World Bank reports Thailand has alternatives to the Nam Theun 2 hydro project in Laos that are cheaper and commercially viable, but that they were excluded from the country’s official power development plans.
US Congress challenges World Bank and Asian Development Bank support for Nam Theun 2 dam
(October 8, 2004) There is no evidence that the government [of Lao PDR] has the capacity to manage the significant economic, social and environmental risks of
the project.
Nam Theun 2 Dam: Locals see only positives
(September 28, 2004) Meeting backs construction despite objections from activists, NGOs.
PI Submission to World Bank Nam Theun 2 Workshop
(September 10, 2004) Based on Probe International’s review of all available information, World Bank and Asian Development Bank funding for the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project would constitute foreign aid abuse.
Contribution to the final report on the Sept. 7 consultation in Paris (France): Nam Theun 2 dam
(September 9, 2004) Invited by the World Bank to attend a day of consultation on the Nam Theun 2 dam project, the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR) elegation came away dissatisfied with the answers they were given.
Friends of the Earth?
(September 7, 2004) Western conservationists back Indochina’s largest, most environmentally destructive hydro scheme.
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