Huge dam projects threatens the Mekong river (Xayaburi Dam)

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This is via Dam Construction Is Set to Destroy the 'Mother of all Rivers' | | AlterNet

Next week, the governments of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam will meet to decide whether to approve the first-ever dam planned for the lower Mekong mainstream, the Xayaburi Dam.
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The Mekong River - known locally as the "Mother of all Rivers" - is the world's largest inland fishery
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To harm the fishery is to harm the food security of the region's poor.
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a series of 11 dams on the Mekong mainstream. These impenetrable walls would block the migration of fish and profoundly disrupt the river ecology, sounding a death knell for the Mekong's productive fisheries.
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The scientific consensus is against building Xayaburi Dam. Fisheries scientists unanimously agree that the dam's impacts on fisheries cannot be mitigated. Even though the dam builders have promised to install a fish ladder to allow for fish migration, the Mekong River Commission's own experts agree that this ladder will be ineffective and that there is no technology in existence to sufficiently mitigate the dam's impacts.

To say it in local engrish: "same same!" - It is the same story over and over again. blocking rivers, killing the fish, cutting off the nutrients to lowland farmers and the livelyhood of fishermen along the river. The dams then produce electricity for factories like aluminum smelters or sawmills or other mining operations (I do not know what the plan is in this case) and the people who cannot feed themselves because there are no fish and the farmlands go bad then have to make a living by providing cheap labor for these factories.

The same **** is happening again and again. Assuan, Belomonte and now Xayaburi...

There is a "take action" button in the article, maybe it helps, but maybe someone can refer to some more promising action than emailing the officials. Are there any groups that fight against this and need some momentum?

Also, spread the word...

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