NGOs issue one more plea to stop Xayaburi

31 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
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With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made another call for its suspension. In a joint declaration released today, 39 organisations based in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia set a one-year deadline for Thailand and Laos to call off the 1,285-megawatt hydropower dam and demanded Thailand, which is set to buy 95 per cent of the generated electricity, cancel its power purchase agreement. …

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