Lao NewsLaos defies neighbours on dam project-environmentalists
Source: Yahoo News
(Reuters or Star ) Laos is forging ahead with construction of a controversial $3.5 billion hydropower dam in breach of an agreement to suspend the project pending approval by ministers of neighbouring countries, an environmental group said on Thursday.
Keep going Laos! the hydroelectric dams accross the mekong river are the solid potential for the economic and social developpment enabling the tinny , least developped and the poorest country in the world to reach out of the sad poverty. Nobody care about Laos more than the real laotians. Yes we have to defie all the concerns and complaints of the neighbouring countries faux amis who are jalous about those dams that they don’t have any location to build on. China has already build 4 dams why Laos should not do it.
The hydroelectric dams across the Mekong River constitute the real potential and direct interests for Laos. We recognize that the Mekong River is an international river but no any country or any organization has a right of veto to stop Laos to use it the for its own interests. Laos has a duty to inform and consult with other countries before building the dams. The resolutions adopted by the Mekong River Commission have only a consultative nature without any biding.
Go ahead Laos! Build as many dams as needed across the Mekong River to become the battery of SEA and lift up the Country from the sad poverty. Neither any country nor Organization has the right of veto to prevent Laos from using the Mekong for its own interests. The Mekong River Commission can always adopt the resolutions of consultative nature without any legal binding. The hydroelectric dams will provide the green energy that is safer and cheaper than the deadly dangerous nuclear energy. If Laos doesn’t build those hydroelectric dams Thailand and Vietnam will turn to nuclear plants. I like to remind you as well about the deadly accidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima.Besides the dams will be needed to regulate the water’s debit or flow at good level enabling the navigation the year round and to save different species of fishes, the giant catfishes included. Vietnam and Cambodia will have also the privilege to buy the hydroelectric power from those dams in the future with the affordable price.
The oversea Laotians believe that the hydroelectric dams across the Mekong River are the real potential and direct interests for Laos in its mission to bring out the country from the poverty.
Look at China that has build already 4 dams across the same body of water. Why Laos must be deprived of the sovereign right to build the dams across the Mekong River. We don’t think that the government of Thailand has any reason or interest to oppose the construction of those dams. Those activists especially the Thaïs who protest against the dams need to reset their mind about the interests and benefits they can get directly or indirectly from the dams in the long run. The so-called conservation groups or other NGO have nothing to do with the dams.
The government of Japan is too kind having pledged to fund the second study on the impact of the dams to ease the nerves of the Cambodians and Vietnameses. I don’t think it will be over with the study since Vietnam and Cambodia are looking to kill the dams. Laos has already shown its kind spirit of cooperation with the other riparian countries by hiring the Finnish company to carry the studies that Cambodia and Vietnam have rejected the positive results.
Keep going Laos! Start to build those dams as from tomorrow; we have no time to waste, every drop of water that flows away in every minute is money.
If we melt down under pressure of our faked friends by giving up to build those dams that are our potential and direct interests we will be remembered and blamed of losers by the Laotians of the next generations to come.
In response to goodwill question I like to say that nobody can stop China to build the dams on the Mekong River within its territory and neither with Laos. I don’t think that Laos has signed any treaty of that kind that prevents itself to build the hydroelectric dams across the Mekong within its territory. The Mekong River Commission is an Intergovernmental Organization with consultative character unlike the Security Council of the United Nations where the 5 permanent members enjoy the right of veto. The resolutions and decisions adopted by it are of consultative nature so Laos might comply with and not up to its national interests.