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Economic Reality May End More Big Mekong Dams

Politics, economics, environmentalism deliver good news

Jul 02, 2020
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By: David Brown

Environmentalists have said that damming the Mekong is a bad idea for years and they're right. The environmental costs are substantial for northeast Thailand, large for Laos and huge further downstream in Cambodia and southwest Vietnam.

There's been another flurry of alarms, as Asia Sentinel reported on June 30. The Mekong River Committee…

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