in the absence of an eco-forum I'll post here....

K. Sasin of the The Seub Nakhasathien Foundation has started a one man protest in the hope of brining awareness of the problems a Mae Wong Dam could cause and bring attention to other cheaper solutions that have bee proposed that would have less environment damage.

http://www.seub.or.th/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=359:seubeng&Itemid=129

he will be sitting on a stool outside Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning until they meet to consider the effects of the dam on later this week.

Apart form having dubious merit in helping either irrigation or flooding the dam poses a serious threat to the survival of Thailand's meager and endangered Tiger population. The dam has been knocked back several times over the last couple of decades, the idea for the dam - originally intended for irrigation purposes - was revived after the serious flooding in Bangkok in the last few years.

Edited November 18, 201411 yr by wilcopops

Here is a WWF site that explains the threat to the tiger population posed by the dam.

http://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/tigers-threatened-by-proposed-dam

at present Thailand is heading straight of a new "hub"- that of tiger extinction.

Edited November 19, 201411 yr by wilcopops

Thread now running in Thailand News:

Activists push for Mae Wong Dam to be scrapped

Please continue discussion there.

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