Laos streams ahead on latest Mekong damA local villager drive a boat where the future site of the Luang Prabang dam will be on the Mekong River outskirt of Luang Prabang province on Sunday. Sceptics say the Lao government and its Vietnamese and Thai partners should wait to assess any impact on downstream fishing and farming from the recently completed Xayaburi dam, Laos' first mainstream Mekong hydropower project. An artistic rendering of the proposed 1400 MW Luang Prabang hydropower dam on the Mekong River in Laos is seen in this undated handout obtained by Reuters on Sunday. It is not a rubber stamp of the process," said An Pich Hatda, CEO of the Mekong River Commission (MRC). Plus, in recent years, state-owned and private companies in all of the Mekong region have invested in Laos dams.

Source: Bangkok Post February 07, 2020 04:41 UTC