Film Screening & Discussion “Mega Dams On The Thanlwin”
RCSD Chiang Mai University
24th November 2016 13.15-16.30
4th floor meeting room, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
13.15-14.00 Introduction and film screening by Tom Fawthrop
14.00-16.30 Discussion on hydropower development along the Salween River & An overview and updated situation on the ground
Wittoon Permponsacharoen, Toward Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TEERA)
Naw Hsa Moo, Karen Environmental and Social Action Network
Khursheng, Shan SAPAWA Environmental Organization
“Mega Dams on the Thanlwin” explores a subject that has excited strong passions in Burma in the past, but which in this case has gone barely noticed outside of the affected area: the construction of mega-dams to supply neighboring countries with electricity. The film specifically focuses on the Mong Ton Dam project in eastern Shan State. The proposed mega-dam will produce 34.7 billion kilowatt hours of energy per year — most of it for export to Thailand and China. Environmentalists estimated that the floodplain caused by the dam will displace between 200,000 and 300,000 civilians.
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