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Reuters: - Plans for the first dam across the lower Mekong River are putting Laos on a collision course with its neighbors and environmentalists who fear livelihoods, fish species and farmland could be destroyed, potentially sparking a food crisis.
The impoverished, Communist nation seems determined to defy international pressure and forge ahead with construction of the $3.5 billion Xayaburi Dam, a mostly Thai-led project that experts say could cause untold environmental damage.
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Pressure mounts to delay “dangerous” $3.5 bln Mekong dam
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 19th, 2011
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