Bangkok Post
Editorial
The dispute over whether to build the first hydro-electric dam on our region’s share of the Mekong River has reached an abysmal low point.
Governments, businesses and bankers have broken their understanding with Lao residents and civil society. Backers of the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos were to submit plans to this week’s meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in Vientiane.
Instead, as eyewitnesses reported in this newspaper yesterday, preparatory work on the dam is well under way, and residents are already being moved out.
Presumably, officials will now weasel and warp the intent of the process. We can expect something along the line of, well, workmen are not working on the actual dam, just preparing the way.
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