NGOs push for postponement of Don Sahong dam on Mekong
The lower three Mekong Countries, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam as well as environmental groups, have expressed concern about the Don Sahong dam’s impact on the environment, movement of fish and water quality and flow.
The project has yet to be approved by the Mekong River Commission, an intergovernmental body made up of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam that supervises development along Southeast Asia’s main waterway.
Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad led a delegation to Cambodia on 13 October to meet with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong in the capital Phnom Penh, said Daovong Phonekeo, director general of the Energy Policy and Planning Department at the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines.
The Lao delegation will visit government officials in Vietnam and Thailand, he told RFA’s Laos Service on 14 October.
