Comments on: Mekong River Dams Ruin Livelihoods of 65 Million – 11 More Are Planned

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:57:14 +0000

Asia rising! Beware Yankee Doodle! the 80% of the worlds resources you now consume will be shared down the human food-chain, leaving your great appetite bankrupt of the high calories you need for survival! Your bones, the biggest in the world to date! Meat eater you are! The veggies and rice eaters are coming for their share of your great feast! They come with Yuan, a trusted currency , and Gold, not your fiat funny money! and will out bid you at every chance! New dams, your TV sets , all your electronic devises, and now even your cars! exchanged for daily sustenance fare below what any one of you require! Beware the Dams! the progress!

By: Fawkes

Fawkes — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:44:24 +0000

Any truth in the rumour that the Lao authorities are so tired of the extensive consultation with NGOs over Nam Theun 2 that they are saying they won’t be going to the same trouble over the dams that follow, meaning nightmare dams all round for the Mekong?

By: jplure

jplure — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:12:10 +0000

It’s a shame !
What’s happening to the Mekong of course but also the poor quality of this article. The authors of this website should spend a little more time gathering facts and analyzing them rather than copying and pasting stuff from the web. For example, the Nam Theun 2 reservoir has been fully impounded for more than one year now…
If the author had spent a little more time on this article, he would have found out that the Nam Theun 2 project, even if it is perfectible, can be seen as a blue print for future projects compared to all the other projects of the Mekong region.
As Nam Theun 2 developers are opened minded and have invited all local NGOs to participate and visit their project, it is very easy to gather facts and point out whats going wrong. But this brings too much focus on this project and in the meantime many other developers are building “nightmare” dams and nobody talks about them since journalists would risk their life if they wanted to see whats happening