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Cambodia should steer clear of Laosβ dammed path
Monday, 27 June 2011 15:00
Steve Finch Phnom Penh Post
NEWS that Laos
is set to move ahead with construction of the controversial Xayaburi Dam
without further agreed consultation with the rest of the Mekong region
threatens to destroy hydropower cooperation. But that doesnβt mean that
Cambodia should follow a similarly irresponsible route that threatens
environmental and socio-economic damage.
While Cambodia needs to
raise electricity output as much as the rest of the countries in the Mekong
region, indeed perhaps more so given its low level of rural electrification, to
consider Vientianeβs abuse of the system as carte blanche to move ahead
regardless with its own dams would be foolish.
Even if the likes of
Vietnam, probably to be a major benefactor from the likes of the Lower Sesan 2
Dam in Cambodia, exert pressure on Phnom Penh to move ahead, the government
needs to hold firm.
While the export of
electricity to Vietnam will bring in revenues to the country, and particularly
the likes of the Royal Group which is jointly developing the Lower Sesan 2 Dam,
economically it is far from clear yet whether such projects make economic β let
along environmental β sense.
The key question that
researchers including the Mekong River Commission and International Rivers
continue to point out is that these dams potentially threaten fish migratory
patterns which would only harm stocks. With many rural Cambodians gaining
valuable protein from these fish, the trade-off for much-needed electricity may
not be a sensible one given that the countryβs food security will be tested. It
means food will have to come from other sources, most likely at greater cost.
So while Cambodia
desperately needs to catch up with electricity demand that is growing at about
25 percent annually, the socio-economic trade-off in the form of the livelihoods
of fishermen and food is not necessarily a valid one.
Cambodia should therefore
try to do everything it can to keep the regional framework of hydropower
consultation while sticking to strict environmental and socio-economic impact
assessments domestically. To so would be to help protect the basis of a
significant portion of socio-economic activity at home while hoping to minimize
the fallout from other hydropower projects abroad.
Certainly most experts thus
far say Cambodia has to think about more pressing issues such as electricity
transmission once it is produced before developing a fully coherent dams
policy. Rather than rush to follow βbattery of Southeast Asiaβ hydropower model
it would be far more prudent to do the exact opposite of the Kingdomβs northern
neighbour. In other words, Cambodia should learn from Laosβ mistakes when it
comes to building dams, and unfortunately, Vientianeβs plan to move ahead with
the Xayaburi Dam looks to be among its most ill-advised.
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