Le premier projet ferait 1260 MW, 32 m de haut , 820 m de long.
Le Vietnam en aval est trés mécontent et craint pour l' agriculture du Riz et l' aquaculture.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/fe ... 30378.htmlVietnam, Laos split over Mekong dam
Rice farms and fishermen will be disturbed, Vietnam says of ambitious plans by its ally, Laos.
03 Mar 2011
The first in a new series of 11 dams planned across the Mekong, South-east Asia’s largest river, could break a special bond between two communist-ruled countries.
Critics in Vietnam see red over a 1,260-megawatt hydropower project planned by their smaller, poorer, land-locked neighbour, Laos. They call it an environmental disaster.
Laos, however, wants to be the powerhouse of the region – to sell power to its neighbours and earn enough to help the poor, that is a third of its population of 5.8 million.
The dam in an idyllic hill setting in the north Laos province of Xayaburi (or Sayaboury), will be built by a Thai developer. Thailand is expected to buy 95 per cent of its power to fuel its booming economy.
Environmentalists say the Xayaburi dam and 10 more such constructions planned on the Mekong's mainstream, nine in Laos, make a Faustian bargain.
Communist opposition
The dam will "reduce fresh water and silt downstream in Vietnam and devastate fishing among others," stated Tuoi Tre, the country's largest circulating newspaper paper, published by the Communist Youth Organisation from Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) in the south.
The potential threat of the $3.5bn dollar dam in the Mekong delta, Vietnam’s "biggest rice producing and fish farming area", has been highlighted by The Saigon Times too.
Vietnam’s government officials have raised their voice against the 32-metre- tall, 820-metre-wide dam. "If built, Laos' Xayaburi dam will greatly affect Vietnam's agriculture production and aquaculture," deputy minister of natural resources and environment Nguyen Thai Lai reportedly said in a meeting of the country's Mekong River experts.
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