Following video is made by AlJazeera, as you know, news agency which has no benefits with China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam. So it's pretty much unbiased.
Hope Chinese government not force YouTube to remove this video or block it.
Let's attack Thailand though no dams over Mekong river are actually built by them while China has finished 2 dams and started to build the other 3 over Mekong river but they are not criminal. No one cares.
no-one can control and cooperate with China.... if they decide something, they will do. that's all
But with thailand, i guess you can better negotiate. Moreover, they cannot do anything without laos agreement, because mekong is the border between the 2 countries.
Maybe china do mistakes... all you can do is try to avoid things to be worse.... that's not enough but it's better than nothing
Yes, the Video is nothing but a mouth piece of Thailand. The people who acted in the Video were guided by someone. The person who posted this video is also Thai person, no doubt.
In my opinion, there is nothing much to do with fish in Mekong river. The dams in China are far away from Thailand.
Every year fish give birth million new fish. Naturally fish comes from the South, but from the North, China for instance.
The fact that fish becomes less and lesser in the Mekong is due to many reason. Number one, our people who love to catch fish increase more and more.
Number two, Last time they went for fishing only for eating, but now they fish for sell.
Number three, some people go for fishing when female fish is expected arguing that the it would be more delicious and can be sold more expensive.
So that's why fish can hard be found. To solve this problem, Lao people like to feed fish by themself along Mekong river for eating and sell to earn some incomes. It's understandable nature could not always to feed people as 20 years ago. If people are smart enogh and have good brains, they would understand this phenominon.
The dams on all of the tributaries have the same affect. Silt is caught behind the dams and the wet season flooding is less severe and also less beneficial. I believe, and it is only my opinion that the dams the Lao people themselves are allowing to be built on thier own land will have greater and more far reaching detrimental consequences.
When will Laos spawn it's own environmental movement?
The dams on all of the tributaries have the same affect. Silt is caught behind the dams and the wet season flooding is less severe and also less beneficial. I believe, and it is only my opinion that the dams the Lao people themselves are allowing to be built on thier own land will have greater and more far reaching detrimental consequences.
When will Laos spawn it's own environmental movement?
Not unless you want to be locked up in an isolated prison cell or get killed instantly. Anyone ever heard of the Lao owner of a business call The Boat Landing? He started an Eco tourism. Apprently some people kidnapped him since he was going to blow a whistle on the cutting down of tree and causes landslide to destroyed some villages. This was in Luang Prabang.
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Hi ! everyone, I think we have two options for hydropower in Laos : : 1/. having friendly environment = no income and no development, losing great opportunity... 2/. having detrimental environment = greater income , able to keep clean the environment and in the same time keeping the mekong at stable level , greater development ...
actually many choices are open to the Lao People. It's not an either or choice. I just hope that it is the lao people who make the money from their own country. Not all hydro is "bad" not all money makes a people rich.
Despite large growth in GDP since 2000 large segments of the population are poorer than seven years ago, why?
I love to see the new electricity to the houses, and the new roads for all seasons, the schools, hospitals. I hate to see the girls leaving for Thailand, the young guys fighting drunk in the street and on ya ma.
Despite large growth in GDP since 2000 large segments of the population are poorer than seven years ago, why?
Laos government have almost no policies on rural people- that where large population of Laos are and they are mostly poor.
Their main focus are in Viengtiane. Only reason why they focus on Luang Prabang or Champasak because of the tourism.
Make money from tourism of those area and use the money to fix up Vientiane. That what they are doing. Do they have a huge plan for rural?......you tell me because you live in Laos. You should know better. I only read what I can find from Google.
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