Environmental conference participants demand govt reject Myitsone dam

7 November 2016
Myanmar Times
Hydropower dams / Environment and natural resources / Extractive industries
President U Thein Sein / Meteorologist U Tun Lwin / Oxford University / Myitsone dam / the Myanmar Green Network / The Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power

Angry villagers, government officials, MPs, experts, and national and international NGOs came together to denounce the troubled Myitsone dam project in Kachin State. Convened by the Myanmar Green Network, last week they spoke out in a bid to influence the commission set up by the state counsellor to report on the dam’s future.

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