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Laos, Vietnam disagreed Over Mekong Dam
3rd Mar, 2011 at 8:43pm
 
Vietnam, Laos Split Over Mekong Dam
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Critics in Vietnam see red over a 1,260-megawatt hydropower project planned by their smaller, poorer, land-locked neighbour, Laos. They call it an environmental disaster.

Laos, however, wants to be the powerhouse of the region – to sell power to its neighbours and earn enough to help the poor, that is a third of its population of 5.8 million.

The dam in an idyllic hill setting in the north Laos province of Xayaburi (or Sayaboury), will be built by a Thai developer. Thailand is expected to buy 95 percent of its power to fuel its booming economy.

Environmentalists say the Xayaburi dam and 10 more such constructions planned on the Mekong’s mainstream, nine in Laos, make a Faustian bargain.

The dam will "reduce fresh water and silt downstream in Vietnam and devastate fishing among others," stated ‘Tuoi Tre’, the country’s largest circulating paper, published by the Communist Youth Organisation from Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) in the south.

The potential threat of the 3.5 billion dollar dam in the Mekong delta, Vietnam’s "biggest rice producing and fish farming area", has been highlighted by The Saigon Times too.

Vietnam’s government officials have raised their voice against the 32-metre- tall, 820-metre-wide dam. "If built, Laos’ Xayaburi dam will greatly affect Vietnam’s agriculture production and aquaculture," deputy minister of natural resources and environment Nguyen Thai Lai reportedly said in a meeting of the country’s Mekong River experts.

Such criticism goes against the spirit of a 1977 treaty of friendship and cooperation that binds them in a ‘special relationship’. The treaty followed the communist triumph against the U.S. in the Vietnam War.
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Reply #1 - 3rd Mar, 2011 at 8:46pm
 
Vietnam also didn't sign agreement to bans cluster bomb which Laos push for. LPDR need to stand up to Vietnam. Laos want to build more dam and become battery of ASEAN, develop and modernized the country. Go Laos. Wink Smiley Shocked
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Reply #3 - 4th Mar, 2011 at 7:56am
 
Lucina Cuffari wrote on 4th Mar, 2011 at 12:44am:
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Reply #4 - 7th Mar, 2011 at 12:14am
 
As someone who has lived for many years downstream from a major dam (Nam Ngum Dam) in Laos, I'd like to point out that critics of dam construction like to highlight only the disadvantages and omit the benefits to those downstream of the dams, i.e. control of disastrous flooding and the cleaner water due to much of the river's silt being trapped in the dam reservoir.

I'm of the opinion that the many dams being built in Laos right now offer far more benefits than disadvantages.
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Reply #5 - 7th Mar, 2011 at 6:30am
 
I supported the dams construction, and development in Laos. It'll bring needed revenue for Lao government. I think the benefits out weight the cost.
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As someone who has lived for many years downstream from a major dam (Nam Ngum Dam) in Laos, I'd like to point out that critics of dam construction like to highlight only the disadvantages and omit the benefits to those downstream of the dams, i.e. control of disastrous flooding and the cleaner water due to much of the river's silt being trapped in the dam reservoir.

I'm of the opinion that the many dams being built in Laos right now offer far more benefits than disadvantages.

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Reply #6 - 8th Mar, 2011 at 7:55am
 
Lucina Cuffari wrote on 4th Mar, 2011 at 12:44am:
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Reply #7 - 8th Mar, 2011 at 7:59am
 
llX wrote on 7th Mar, 2011 at 6:30am:
I supported the dams construction, and development in Laos. It'll bring needed revenue for Lao government. I think the benefits out weight the cost.
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As someone who has lived for many years downstream from a major dam (Nam Ngum Dam) in Laos, I'd like to point out that critics of dam construction like to highlight only the disadvantages and omit the benefits to those downstream of the dams, i.e. control of disastrous flooding and the cleaner water due to much of the river's silt being trapped in the dam reservoir.

I'm of the opinion that the many dams being built in Laos right now offer far more benefits than disadvantages.



I agree. Laos needs dams to fund the building of it's infrastructure. Once that is done, and the UXO's are removed, I believe that Laos', economy will practically explode onto the scene in SE Asia.
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llX wrote on 7th Mar, 2011 at 6:30am:
I supported the dams construction, and development in Laos. It'll bring needed revenue for Lao government. I think the benefits out weight the cost.
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As someone who has lived for many years downstream from a major dam (Nam Ngum Dam) in Laos, I'd like to point out that critics of dam construction like to highlight only the disadvantages and omit the benefits to those downstream of the dams, i.e. control of disastrous flooding and the cleaner water due to much of the river's silt being trapped in the dam reservoir.

I'm of the opinion that the many dams being built in Laos right now offer far more benefits than disadvantages.



I agree. Laos needs dams to fund the building of it's infrastructure. Once that is done, and the UXO's are removed, I believe that Laos', economy will practically explode onto the scene in SE Asia.


Agreed. Laos economy is growing. Government is working on removing UXO from Laos with the help from international community. It'll take time even though the fund is short because of global economic slowdown.
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