Myint Lwin,
You only mentioned about hughe investment in Burma but YOU INTENTIONALLY OMITTED [u]b]FOR WHO[/b][/u]
FOR OUT COUNTRY OR FOR OTHERS???????????????
Look at the following"
China cashes in on Hutgyi
China and Thailand have recently signed an MOU for joint investment in the construction of the $ 1 billion Hutgyi dam on the Salween inside Burma’s Karen State, reported Manager Online yesterday, 27 June 2006.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Kraisri Kanasut, Governor of Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (EGAT) and Huang Baodong, President of Sinohydro Corporation, said Viset Chupiban, Thailand’s Minister of Energy. Apart from boosting energy security, Egat, Sinohydro and Burma’s Ministry of Electricity # 1 would jointly conduct social and environmental impact assessments and design a suitable agricultural project for the local people.
The dam is expected to be constructed in 2007-2008 and ready to sell power to Thailand by 2012. According to preliminary studies, the dam will be able to generate 1,000-1,200 megawatts of electricity. Due to cheap supply from its neighbor, the kingdom would be able to cut back $ 700 million spent annually on power, he said.
Thailand’s quota in the investment will be 50%, China 40% and Burma 10%.
Besides Hutgyi, Thailand is planning to build 3 more dams on the Salween, 2 in the Karen State and 1 in Shan State.
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Salween dams force hundreds of Karens to leave homes
Reporter: Arntai Khaikharnfha
Since the beginning of March 2006, more than 500 Karen villagers from Mutraw, Karen State, have fled to Thai-Burmese border after being forced by the Burmese military to build a road for the Salween river dam project, according to one of the environmental activities who has just returned from Karen State.
“The road which the villagers have been forced to build runs from Papun to Weigyi, the Salween dam site, but since the Thai authorities don’t allow them to cross the border, they are still hiding in the jungle,” he said.
Meanwhile, he quoted the villagers saying that within the past four months the Burmese military regime has sent thousands of its troops into Karen State. There are at least 800 junta soldiers stationed around dam site area near Thai border.
In December 2005, the Thai-Burmese government had signed a MoU to build four dams along Salween River, the longest free flowing river in Southeast Asia: at Tasang in Shan State and Hutgyi, Weigyi and Dagwin in Karen State, that together will produce 15-20, 000 megawatts of electricity which will be sold to Thailand and other Asian countries.
Dams, Diseases, and Displacement: The Potential Public Health Costs of the Salween Dams
It has often been said that public health can be a thankless line of work: where it is successful, it is largely invisible and ignored. The corollary is that, where systems fail, the results often are catastrophic and incur monumental costs, both to deal with the problem and in its toll on lives. Unfortunately, largely as a result of this circumstance, public health considerations seldom form part of decision-making in public works projects, often with disastrous consequences...
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