Mekong residents call on Lao PDR and dam developers to scrap Phou Ngoy dam
Some twenty representatives of the Ubon Monitoring Group on Flood and Mekong Dams (UMFD) have travelled to Bangkok to file their petition to concerned entities including Lao PDR and the lead dam developer via their representatives in Bangkok in the hope that they will review the project and scrap it
The representatives over the past two days have visited the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the dam developer’s company, Parliament, and other concerned agencies to file their petition to call for the review and scrapping of the Phou Ngoy dam, planned on the Lower Mekong mainstream 70 kilometres away from the Mool-Mekong confluence in Khong Chiam district, Ubon Ratchathani province.
B.Tribune
