This story started with a simple question: “What do we do if our electricity runs out in the next 20 years?” The answer has been conceived through coercion, giving the locals few viable options, given the government’s Power Development Plan (PDP).
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This story started with a simple question: “What do we do if our electricity runs out in the next 20 years?” The answer has been conceived through coercion, giving the locals few viable options, given the government’s Power Development Plan (PDP). The simple answer for the government lies in the construction of the Phu Ngoi Dam project in Laos.
The dam would be five times bigger than the Pak Mun Dam in Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani province, which borders Laos. It has the potential to cause widespread damage by disrupting the ecologies and streams in the Mekong River and other bodies of water in Thailand’s northeast. There are unconfirmed but worrying reports that if the construction of Phu Ngoi Dam is completed, the Kaeng Tana National Park in Ubon Ratchathani would be permanently submerged, and the provincial city would suffer more severe and longer flooding than it has…