Mekong Dam Plans Are Undermining a Region’s Climate, Economic Health By Pianporn Deetes and Tanya Lee Roberts-Davis Five ...
Last week marked five years since the 1,285-MW Xayaburi Hydropower Dam began commercial operations. Xayaburi was the first major hydropower project to be developed in Laos on the mainstream Mekong River. Though heralded by its proponents as a supposedly “ …