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Announcement of Jobs at TERRA !
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We are seeking international staff to work as part of our team at TERRA. Applicants should be interested in researching key Mekong-regional policy issues such as river/water resources, land-forest and energy/hydropower, while willing to take up the task of disseminating relevant information to the general public. Please send application including detailed CV by 15 June 2008. |
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FACE OFF: The Nuclear Debate
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3 March 2008 - Witoon Permpongsacharoen, secretary-general of the Foundation for Ecological Recovery, faces off with Kopr Kritayakirana, adviser with the Nuclear Power Programme Development Office, on the front page of Bangkok Post Business section regarding the issue of nuclear power in Thailand. |
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Samak's plan to divert Mekong water panned
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Bangkok Post 5 February 2008
Montree Chantarawong, campaign coordinator of the Bangkok-based Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (Terra), said the Samak government should learn from the previous Mekong-Chi-Mun water diversion project which aimed to divert water from the Mekong to the Chi and Mun rivers.
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MRC doing the wrong checking
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WRM Bulletin, Issue 125, December 2007
Instead of responding to the serious issues raised in the letter [sent to MRC and its donors by 175 local and international organisations], MRC’s move was to start checking if the signing organizations were real. No doubt MRC has the right to do that, but it should at least do it properly.
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MRC and hydropower dams on the lower Mekong mainstream
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Press Release 13 November 2007
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) is facing a crisis of legitimacy, noted panellists at a press conference at the FCCT this morning. The MRC, established in 1995 with the signing of the Mekong Agreement, was meant to signal a new commitment to sustainable development, environmental protection and management of the river for a wide range of users. Twelve years on, however, the MRC has failed to uphold the Mekong Agreement.
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SALWEEN ON A PRECIPICE
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Bangkok Post Sunday 11 November 2007
During a lull in construction preparations, villagers whose ancestral lands face oblivion from a proposed series of dams on the Salween River are eager to make the public aware of the fragile beauty of the riverine system, reports TUNYA SUKPANICH from Mae Hong Son. |
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Statement of Salween Watch
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Regarding the attack on the EGAT workers' camp of
the Hat Gyi dam site 5 September 2007
Following an explosion at the worker’s camp at Hat Gyi in Karen State, which resulted in the death of an EGAT worker, Salween Watch urged EGAT to halt the Hat Gyi project. According to Salween Watch, if the real costs and risks of operating in conflict zones were taken into account “the five hydropower projects on the Salween River in Burma would be found to be unacceptably high.”
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3S River Celebration
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Rattanakiri Province, Cambodia 14-15 June 2007
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| Celebrating the importance of the 3S Rivers despite a decade of negative impacts from cross-border hydropower development. |
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Burma's Salween dams threaten over half a million lives downstream
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Mon Youth Progressive Organization (MYPO), 8 May 2007
Over half a million city residents, farmers, and fisher folk living at the mouth of the Salween River in Burma stand to lose their major source of drinking water, agricultural productivity, and fish stocks if dams planned upstream go ahead. In the Balance, a report released today by the Mon Youth Progressive Organization (MYPO), reveals how people living on the river's banks, tributaries, and islands rely on the Salween estuary, where the fresh water of the Salween meets salt water of the Andaman Sea, and how their lives are intricately linked with the seasonal flows and daily tides of the river.
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Worldwide protests against the Salween dams
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| 28 February 2007 |
| On 28 February 2007, 19 cities worldwide expressed solidarity in opposing the planned Salween dams. Protests in front of Thai embassies and consulates were held in a number of cities, including Washington DC, Sydney, New Delhi, Essen, Paris, Jakarta, Auckland, and Manila, where a petition letter was submitted demanding the current Thai administration withdraw from plans to construct dams on the Salween River. On the same day, solidarity actions took place in Bangkok, London, Melbourne, Hanoi, and Tokyo. |
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Statement of Unity
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Mekong Regional Conference on Tree Plantations
Hor Bunny Hotel, Kratie, Cambodia
November 21-22, 2006 |
| The conference was organised in response to growing concerns over the rapid expansion or large-scale tree plantations and their negative impacts on local communities in the Mekong region. |
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The Mekong’s changing currency
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| Watershed Vol. 11 No. 2 November 2005 – June 2006 |
| The Mekong’s annual cyclical patterns of flooding and recession are intimately linked with the rich biological diversity of the Mekong’s ecosystems, fisheries and aquatic species. |
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