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POWER DAM PROJECTS TO BENEFIT FOREIGNERS: ENVIRO GROUPS
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POWER DAM PROJECTS TO BENEFIT FOREIGNERS: ENVIRO GROUPS Sai Zom Hseng, Irrawaddy, January 31, 2011. http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20638 Almost all of the electricity expected to be generated by hydropower dams now under construction in Burma will be sold to China and Thailand, with just one percent going to domestic consumers, according to environmental watchdog groups. During a recent seminar on the Thai-Burmese border, groups researching the impact of the dams on rivers in Burma and neighboring countries noted that Chinese companies are involved in all but one of 21 major dam projects currently underway in Burma. “Since China is the main investor in the dam projects, it will receive most of the electricity. China will get 48 percent, while 38 percent will go to Thailand and 3 percent to India. Only one percent will be available for domestic consumption,” said Sai Sai, the coordinator of Burma Rivers Network (BRN), one of the groups that took part in the seminar. The remaining 10 percent, he added, will be used by the Burmese military and on large-scale development projects such as the construction of a natural gas pipeline from western Burma's Arakan State to China. According to BRN, the 21 dams being built in Kachin, Shan, and Karenni states and Mandalay and Sagaing divisions will produce a total of 35,640 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Following visits to Burma by Chinese officials late last year, Chinese investment in the Tasang dam, located on the Salween River in Shan State, is set to increase from US $6 billion to $10 billion, said Sai Sai, who added that the dam will be the largest in the state when it is completed. While China is laying claim to most of the electricity being generated by the dams, India is also investing heavily in other projects designed to meet its own needs. The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project, which aims increase India's trade with Southeast Asian countries and give it better access to its isolated northeastern state of Mizoram, was also criticized at the seminar for failing to take into account its impact on local people and the environment. “We're not saying the project should never be implemented, but it should be put on hold until there is a more accountable government in Burma that will think about the impact and the effects of the project,” said Aung Marm Oo, the director of the Arakan Rivers Network. The project, which will involve the development of the Sittwe seaport in Arakan State and the dredging of the Kaladan waterway to Paletwa in Chin State, will be carried out by Indian state-owned and private companies in cooperation with the Burmese regime, which will be responsible for constructing a highway from Paletwa to the Burma-India border. According to Indian media reports, the $110 million Indian-funded project will be completed in 2014-5. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has also staked a claim to a portion of Burma's growing hydropower capacity. It plans to buy most of the electricity that will be generated by four projects now under construction in Arakan State, including the Laymro dam, which will become the largest in western Burma with a capacity of 500 MW. Some of the remaining electricity will be used to construct pipelines to send natural gas from Burma's Shwe gas fields to China, according to ARN's Aung Marm Oo. ARN says that its research shows that the projects will deprive local people of their land and livelihoods. Even in the preliminary stages of the projects, there have been many cases of land confiscation and forced labor, the group said. Additional references See below: ‘Access to electricity in Myanmar’ (Appendix 24) ================================================================================== TOWERS ON HLINETHAYA-AHLON POWER GRID UNDER CONSTRUCTION NLM, 31/01/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-01-31.pdf EPM-2 Khin Maung Myint inspects construction of the suspension towers of the 230-KV power grid across the Hline river at the compound of Ahlon Power Station on Strand road in Yangon. He is briefed by Engineer Htay Oo of Bridge Construction Special Group-1 of Public Works on the concreting of the RCS-2 bored pile and the installation of the tower crane. Project Manager Hla Myint of Power Supply Project (South) of MEPE reports on the arrival of beams and related equipment for the four towers which are being imported by Bawa Trading Co Ltd and provides detailed information on the weight and height of suspension tower-2 to be built on the bank in Ahlon and bored pile RCS-1 on the Seikkyi bank of the Hline river. Additional references See below: ‘Risky job for line crew on Bago river crossing pylons’ (NLM: 27/02/09) ‘Power hungry Myaungdagar industrial zone nearly ready’ (MT: 25/02/08) ‘Combined cycle power plant in Ahlon township opened’ (MIC: 15/09/99) ‘Grid Map 3: Transmission system as it existed in mid-2007’ ‘Grid Map 4: Long-term plan for transmission system’
DepEPM-2 Aung Than Oo checks on construction of the high-tension tower on the Seiklkyi bank of the Hline river crossing power grid, then on to the Ahlon gas power plant where an extension joint is being replaced on the No 3 turbine and the construction of the 230/66/11 KV-switch yard of the 2x100 MVA Ahlon power plant are underway. NLM, 10/04/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-04-10.pdf EPM-2 Khin Maung Soe inspects the construction of towers for the 230-KV Hlinethaya- Ahlon power grid across the Hline River. NLM, 21/02/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-02-21.pdf D-G Khin Maung Zaw of Dept of Electric Power of EPM-2 inspects the installation of the conductor line of the 230-KV Hlinethaya-Ahlon power grid near Tuchaung village and construction of the extended Switch Bay at Hlinethaya power station in Hlinethaya Township and the river crossing suspension-[tower?]-2 at Ahlon Power Station in Ahlon township. NLM, 15/01/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-01-15.pdf At the Ahlon power station Engineer Maung Maung Kyaw briefed PM Thein Sein and party about the construction of the 230-kV Ahlon Twin Bundle Double Circuit power grid line across the Hline river. . . . Afterwards the PM and his party inspected the work being done on the double-circuit power grid project on the Ahlon bank. [Photos of the double circuit power grid under construction are included in the print edition of NLM.] NLM, 07/03/10. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs08/NLM2010-03-07.pdf With a view to implementing projects to supply electricity, EPM-2 is undertaking national grids such as the installation of . . . the 15-mile-long Hlinethaya- Ahlon 230-KV Twin Bundle, Single Circuit power grid project [and] the 0.9 mile long Hline River crossing (Ahlon) 230-KV Twin Bundle, Single Circuit power grid project . . NLM, 08/10/08. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs5/NLM2008-10-08.pdf EPM-2 Khin Maung Myint inspected connection of 230-KV power lines between Hlinethaya and Bayintnaung and distribution of power to output feeders such as Ywama, Seinpanmyaing, Hsinmalaik-1 and -2 power lines in the Bayintnaung main sub power station in Mayangon township on 06/10/08. Using the power distribution panel in the control room the minister was able to monitor distribution along the 230-KV power lines in Hlinethaya and Bayintnaung and the transformers in the switch yard and the application of the communication network carrier system. NLM, 15/09/08. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs6/NLM2008-09-15.pdf EPM-2 Khin Maung Myint visits the main power station in Hlinethaya where he is briefed on the supply of power from the Myaungdaga power station to Hlinethaya and linkages to Bayintnaung power station, as well as distribution of electricity through lines to Nyaungdon and Seikkyi-khanaungto-Kawhmu-Kungyangon. The minister looks into maintenance of transformers, linkages of power lines and functions of power supply. NLM, 13/03/07. http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs2/NLM2007-03-13.pdf A ceremony to mark the completion of the 73-mile-long, 230-KV power grid between Hlinethaya and Athoat (Yekyi) was held in Kazintaw village, Pantanaw township on 11/03/07. A total of 319 towers are included along the 230-KV, twin bundle, single circuit transmission line. NLM, 25/03/04. http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/NLM2004-03-25.pdf ME San Oo of MEPE and V-P of State Grid Corporation of China Zheng Baosen signed a commercial contract [worth US$ 16 million, on supply of] transmission lines and sub-stations for the 230-KV Myaungtaka-Hlinethaya-Yekyi project. ================================================================================== YWATHAYA VILLAGE LIGHTED UP BY SOLAR POWER NLM: 26/01/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-01-26.pdf Byline: Maung Maung Myint Swe; Photos: Tin Soe (Myanma Alin)
Apart from solar-powered equipment, the Ministry of Industry-2 is preparing to produce solar panels ranging from 21 watt to 185 watts at its Machine Tool and Electronics Factory (South Dagon) starting in Sept 2010. ================================================================================== PRIME MINISTER UPDATED ON THE MYITSON HYDROPOWER PROJECT NLM, 25/01/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-01-25.pdf PM Thein Sein visits the Myitson hydropower project site near Tanphe village about 25 miles north of Myitkyina. D-G Myint Zaw of the Hydropower Implementation Dept briefs him on the site for building the stonefilled concrete bed of the dam and related structures, the program to divert the river in three phases, preparations for building the spillway and hydropower plant, a comparative study between heights of stone-filled concrete beds and installed generation capacities, and arrangements for construction of a bridge across the Ayeyawady near the project site. The PM is also briefed by CPI Corp V-P Zhang Xialu and the local GM of CPI, Li Guanghua, on the the company's investments in hydropower projects in Kachin state including work on the Chiphwe project. CPI is using the Irrawaddy river route from Yangon to Myitson to transport materials and equipment for its projects. Also covered in the briefing is the use of seismographs, ongoing tasks for environmental conservation, and assistance for the relocation of villages in the low-lying project areas. The PM responds that relocated villages in the project area have been provided with water, electric power, buildings and religious buildings. However, there is a continuing need to encourage long-term businesses for local people. In the region, perennial trees such as teak, rubber plant, orange, mango and grapefruit grow well, he notes. The PM visits Aungmyintha village [where displaced persons are being moved to], and greets the residents cordially, asking about education, health care and livelihoods. At the high school in the village, he discusses education matters with the teachers. Myitsone hydropower project lies on the Ayeyawady river near Tanphe Village, about 4.3 miles downstream of the confluence of the N'maikha and Malikha. rivers. The concrete-faced rockfill dam (CFRD) at the site will be 4298 feet long and 458 feet high. The reservoir behind the dam will be able to store 9.788 million acre feet of water. Eight turbine-generators installed in the power house near the dam will have a combined capacity of of 6000 megawatts and are expected to produce 29,400 million kWh a year. The Hydropower Implementation Dept, Asia World Co Ltd, and CPI Yunnan International Power Investment Co Ltd of the PRC have been implementing the project since 21/12/09. The project term is estimated to be over nine years. So far, the project has been completed by 8.5pc. It is scheduled to be completed cent per cent by 2019. On completion, Myitsone hydropower project will be the world’s sixth highest of its kind. [Photos included in the print edition of NLM show a scale model of the main gate of the dam looking downstream, and pictures of the Aungmyintha townsite and high school.] Map references: A good set of maps for understanding the context in which the Maykha-Malikha valley series of dams will be built is to be found in Damming the Irrawaddy. The locations of the major dams are tentatively pinpointed on doc p 17. The maps on doc pp 28 and 62 show the estimated flood area of the Myitsone dam near the confluence of the N’mai and Mali rivers. http://www.burmariversnetwork.org/images/stories/publications/english/dammingtheirrawaddy.pdf These maps may be usefully compared with the older U.S. Army topographical series listed below. Burma 1:250,000: Series U542, NG 47-09: Myitkyina http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/burma/txu-oclc-6924198-ng47-9.jpg China 1:250,000: Series L 500, NG 47-10: T’eng Ch’ung http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/china/txu-oclc-10552568-ng47-10.jpg The location of the Myitson or Confluence dam and power station is to be found at a point where these two maps join. See grid square 38\2, 9\2 on both maps. The best map for understanding how the river will be dammed up and rechanneled at the confluence is to be found in Resisting the Flood on p A 10. http://www.burmariversnetwork.org/images/stories/publications/english/ResistingtheFlood-1.pdf See also Google Earth for a bird’s-eye view of how the two rivers meet at the confluence. The Myitson river bend is easily located by a pop-up tag at 25°42.38’ N, 97°29.54’ E. Additional references Data summary: Myitson For more information on CPIC’s Myitsone hydropower project see the following key articles in the compendium: ‘Agreement signed for Upper Kachin hydel projects’ (Myitson)’ (NLM: 02/01/07), ‘China’s Investment in Kachin dams seen as cause of conflict’ (IRROL; 16/06/11), ‘President Thein Sein orders suspension of Myitsone dam project’ (IRROL: 30/09/11), ‘CPI president responds to suspension of Myitsone agreement’ (Xinhua: 03/10/11) and ‘KDNG claims work continuing on CPI projects in Kachin State (IRROL: 05/03/12). For information on the Chipwenge hydropower project which was built to provide the electricity needed for the construction phases of the Myitsone and the Upper Cascades hydropower projects see: ‘Chipwi creek plant to power huge hydel project in Kachin state (Myanmar Times:24/03/08). For further information on the six Upper Cascades hydropower projects in Kachin State see: Appendix 32 (ELEP044). For reports on the environmental impact of all of CPIC’s hydropower projects in northern Kachin State see: ‘BANCA’S critical report on China-backed dam smothered’ (DVB: 18/07/11) and ‘China Power Investment EIA report on Upper Ayeyawady projects’ (CSPDR: G2011). For information on transmission of the power generated by these projects see Chinese engineers planning grid connection (IRROL: 23/01/10). Kachin Development Networking Group,31/08/11. Edited, revised, condensed. http://www.kdng.org/press-release/143-china-speeds-ahead-with-myitsone-dam-despite-civil-war-in-northern-burma.html Work at the Myitsone dam site was interrupted when fighting erupted between the Burma Army and the KIA in June and spread to ten townships in Kachin State. Widespread bombings, including on the main supply route from the border town of Kambaiti to the site, led to the withdrawal of 700 Chinese laborers but by July they had returned and full scale construction activties were resumed. Company updates throughout July and August by Sinohydro, China’s biggest dam builder, confirm that Phase 1 of the Myitsone Dam is on schedule to be completed within 2011. A Sinohydro promotional video, Fierce Battle Myitkyina, produced in late May, details the massive scale of the project and the extent of the destruction at the confluence so far. Interviews with Chinese engineers and administrators claim that all obstacles to the project will be overcome. According to the video. the laborers at the site are working day and night shearing off hilltops, laying tunnels, and building embankments in a race to complete the country’s largest dam on schedule.
Waist-deep in the muddy water, hundreds of people swirl their pans, scouring the black sediment for the sparkle of gold dust. They have come from all over Myanmar to Kachin state, where the N’Mai and Mali rivers merge to form the mighty Irrawaddy, knowing that a good day may yield $1,000-worth of gold—and that time for gold-panning is running out. Across the river, the corrugated-iron roofs of a prefabricated barracks glint in the midday sun. They house hundreds of Chinese labourers working on the Myitsone hydropower project. This, according to Myanmar’s government, will be the sixth highest dam in the world, and generate 6,000MW of electricity a year. On completion in 2019, the dam will flood the gold-prospecting area and displace more than 10,000 people. All the electricity will be exported to China. All the revenue will go to Myanmar’s government. If an environmental and social impact study was conducted at all, it did not involve consulting the affected villagers. A local Catholic priest who led prayers against the dam says his parishioners were moved to a “model” village, into tiny houses on plots too small for cultivation. The letters of concern he sent to Myanmar’s leaders went unanswered. He says he will stay in his historic church “till the waters rise over the doorstep”. Those displaced are not the only ones worrying about the project. The project abuts territory controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of a plethora of ethnic insurgencies that have battled the central government for decades. Last year several bombs exploded at the dam site and in May the KIO warned that if the dam were not stopped it would lead to civil war. The KIO’s armed wing recently engaged in skirmishes with government forces, despite a notional ceasefire. China has a big stake in Myanmar. It is the country’s leading foreign investor. Myitsone is one of many hydropower, mining and infrastructure projects there. China’s most ambitious undertaking is a new deep-sea port for oil tankers. Due for completion in 2013, it will take gas from Myanmar’s offshore Shwe field and will have the capacity to satisfy 10% of China’s oil-import needs. China, for its part, worries about the security of its investments and people. In the past it has leaned on Myanmar’s leaders to prevent fighting between the army and the ethnic insurgencies. Myanmar’s xenophobic leaders are trying to reduce their dependence on China by playing it off against India and the West. But India has been slow in trying to gain a toehold, while America and the European Union have recently extended sanctions on Myanmar. These include America’s embargo on backing loans from the World Bank, which would impose higher environmental and other standards on big infrastructure projects such as Myitsone. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mizzima, 03/06/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.bnionline.net/news/mizzima/10859-kachin-state-chief-minister-orders-relocation-of-cross-at-dam-site.html The deadline to remove a cross from a location near Dau Pan village on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy river downstream of the Myitson dam site passed on May 30 but the cross remains. Kachin State Chief Minister Lajun Ngum Sai ordered the Catholic church to move the cross to a mountain on the west bank of the river tclose to Aung Myin Thar San Pya village where many of the villagers displaced by the dam project have been relocated to. "Building and erecting the cross is part of our faith. It must not be moved. It is like the pagodas of the Buddhist faith," a Catholic priest told Mizzima. Priests have sent a letter to the state government asking for the order to be rescinded. Thomas Maung Shwe, Mizzima, 20/05/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.bnionline.net/news/mizzima/10773-kio-warns-china-myitsone-dam-could-spark-civil-war.html In an open letter sent to Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has asked China to stop the planned Myitsone dam project in Burma’s northern Kachin state, warning that the controversial project could lead to civil war. The English-language letter dated March 16, but only recently made public, states that the KIO ‘informed [Myanmar’s] military government that the KIO would not be responsible if a civil war broke out because of this hydropower plant project and the dam construction’. The letter is signed by KIO chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hra. While the KIO has previously opposed the Myitsone dam, the language contained in Lanyaw Zawng Hra’s letter to the Chinese president is unprecedented in its criticism of the project. The letter states that the Myanmar regime’s Northern Command in Kachin State recently told the KIO that it would press ahead with ‘security concerns and other necessary procedures [would] be launched in the above-mentioned six dam project location’. The letter continues, ‘Myanmar military troops will not be allowed to invade the KIO area’ during the current situation. The letter notes that ‘the upstream areas north of the Mali-Nmai dam [Myitsone] project are the locations where KIO military centers are stationed’. It points out that previous work on the Myitsone dam project performed by CPI and Asia World took place after the Burmese authorities explicitly asked the KIO for permission to send engineers and other staff to the area controlled by the KIO. This was made possible by the liaison offices the KIO had established in Burmese regime territory. But, in late 2010, Myanmar’s military regime ordered the closing of most of the KIO liaison offices throughout Kachin State in territory the regime controls or areas in which the KIO has only partial authority. The liaison offices were established as part of the cease-fire agreement to ensure the truce went smoothly and to maintain lines of communication. Compiler’s note: For the full text of the KIO’s ‘open’ letter, see http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/KIO-Letter_to_China-red.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NLM, 30/04/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-04-30.pdf Kachin State Chief Minister La John Ngan Hsai and officials of CPI Co present rice, cash assistance, aid and compensation for crops to households who were removed from Tanphe, Kyeinkharan and Myithson villages to Aungmyintha model village at the high school in Aungmyintha. 41 households of Tanphe Village and 85 households from Maliyan Village benefited. NLM, 25/03/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-03-25.pdf At the session of the Union Parliament on 24/03/11, Representative Khin Maung Yi of Ayeyawady Region raised a question concerning the impact of the dams being implemented at Myitsone and in the upper Maykha-Malikha river basin on the water levels in the lower Ayeyawady. He said the farmers and people of Ayeyawady Region rely on the river for agricultural, economic and social affairs and he wanted to know what kind of losses and damage the upstream projects might cause and what measures needed to be taken to prepare for this. Hydropower Minister Zaw Min said that matters concerning the environment and relocation were considered to be of special concern. At the site of the Myitsone project, the annual rainfall was 91 inches. The average flow of water in the river at this point was 128.52 million acre feet per year. The dam to be constructed would be of concrete face rock-fill type, 4300 feet in length, 458 feet in height and would be able to store up to 9.788 million acre feet of water. This would amount to 7.6pc of the flow into the river and was not expected to have any material impact on the agricultural, economic and social activities of the people in the lower Ayeyawady. During the hot season, when the inflow of sea water increases [in the delta], water levels in the lower course of the river would actually rise 1.5 to 2 feet higher as the generation of electricity at Myitsone would release water stored at the dam and this would prevent the inflow of salt water [in the delta]. NLM, 22/03/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-03-22.pdf Replying to a question in Parliament from Kachin State representative Zakhun Ting Ring as to what arrangements are being made for the people who live in the area where the Myitsone hydropower project is under construction, EPM-1 Zaw Min said that five villages in the Myitsone area have been relocated. They include Tanphe, Kyeinkaram, Myitsone, Khappa/Aungjayan and Daungpan villages, with a total of 410 households and a population of 2146. The former three villages were moved to Aungmyintha new model village and the latter to Maliyan new model village. Each household has been provided with a new two-storey traditional Kachin-style wooden houses and a plot of land. Concrete roads have been built, a high school with two extensions, three primary schools, a police station, a post office, a general administration office with fire station, a 16-bed hospital and four religious buildings have been provided. A water system and electricity been installed. Aungmyintha model village is situated on the Myitkyina-Myitsone concrete road. Compensation for farmlands and perennial crops were given to locals after negotiations with local authorities and land reclamation was carried out. Currently there are opportunities for locals to work on stone and sand production, building and road construction, civil engineering works in the projects and supplying food for the tens of thousands of workers on the projects. Construction of a bridge across the Ayeyawady south of the Myitsone project is currently underway and will be finished in 2011. The first generator at Myitson will start up operations in 2018 and the others will come on-line in 2019. Kachin Independence Organization, 16/03/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/KIO-Letter_to_China-red.pdf Text of an ‘open’ letter addressed by Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hra of the KIO to the Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) with regard to seven hydropower projects under construction by CPI [China Power Investment Corporation] of the PRC and Asia World Co Ltd of Myanmar along the Mali Hka and Nmai Hka rivers in Kachin State. The letter states that the KIO has no objections to six of the planned dams and hydropower plants but appeals to the Chairman of the CPC for assistance in finding a “suitable solution” to the problem created by locating the seventh dam at the confluence of the Mali and Nmai rivers. It describes the Confluence as an important historical and enviromental site of the Kachin ethnic people and says the KIO has appealed to the Asia World Co to enter into discussions with it regarding the location of the dam at the Confluence. While the letter addresses problems created by the relocation of residents in the area to be flooded by the dam at the Confluence, its main thrust appears to be directed at the deteriorating relationship between the KIO and the Myanmar military regime and the problems this could create for dam construction activites involving the CPI’s other projects in upper Kachin State. “17. The leaders of the Military Government’s Northern Command in Kachin State recently informed us that security concerns and other necessary procedures will be launched in the six dam project locations./ 18. We have replied that the Myanmar military troops will not be allowed to invade the area [assigned to the] KIO [by the 1994 cease-fire agreement] under current circumstances./ 19. We also informed the Military Government that the KIO would not be responsible for civil war if war broke out because of hydro power plant and dam construction.” [Compiler’s note: The text of the points quoted has been modified for the sake of clarity. It should be noted that this ‘open’ letter was not made public until at least a couple of months after it was sent. Also, that the ‘military government’ of General Than Shwe was replaced at the end of March 2011 by the ‘union government’ led by President Thein Sein. The letter should be read in the context of the outbreak of hostilities between the KIA and the Myanmar Army in various parts of Kachin State in May and June 2011. In this connection, see recent items in key articles ELEP037, ELEP 034, ELEP 027 and other general sources related to political developments in Kachin State. NLM, 06/03/11. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/NLM2011-03-06.pdf Rice, cash other supplies and TVs were presented to the households who have moved to Aungmyintha model village on 01/03/11. Work is continuing on the construction of houses there. KNG, 26/01/11. Edited and condensed. http://www.kachinnews.com/news/1844-relocation-deadline-in-myitsone-tang-hpre-village-creates-quandary.html Residents of Tang Hpre village near the site of the Myitsone dam have been caught up in the search for gold [in lands that will be flooded when the dam is completed]. “It is akin to hell now. More and more people are addicted to drugs in the village, which is being destroyed due to digging for gold,” said Bawk Naw, a villager from Tang Hpre. He told Thailand-based KNG that whole paddy fields are being destroyed because of gold mining and no one is even attempting to plant paddy, due to the uncertain conditions. On top of that there is mounting pressure to relocate. Police and the Asia World Company came to the village on January 23 and 24 to talk about compensation and told villagers that they will need to relocate by March of this year. Tang Hpre villagers are to be compensated but the authorities have told them that the amount of financial aid will depend on plant count and food stored in every house. There will be no payment for house and land. “We villagers have decided not to shift from our village whatever comes our way,” said Bawk Naw. Most young men are keeping away from the village for fear of being arrested in connection with investigations related to the explosions that occurred near the dam construction site in April of 2010. There are more security check points and soldiers around the construction site since that time. NLM, 24/12/10. http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs09/NLM2010-12-24.pdf Inauguration of Aungmyintha model village and a 16-bed hospital in the village. Also the commissioning of a concrete road between Myitkyina and Myitson. A bridge is being built across the Ayeyawady river near the Myitson dam site. [A photo of the bridge site is included in the print edtion of NLM.] ================================================================================== Yüklə 12,31 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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