Dam the Salween, damn its people

Controversial plans to dam the Salween River, Southeast Asia’s longest natural free-flowing waterway, will proceed without a standard environmental-impact assessment study, despite serious concerns about the effect the infrastructure project will have on the area’s people and natural surroundings.

This month, Thailand’s state-run monopoly EGAT finally formalized its long-pending plans to build five hydroelectric dams

along the Salween River inside Myanmar. An EGAT spokesman said previous plans for the study were finally abandoned to avoid meddling in Myanmar’s internal affairs.
Asia Times