Vientiane/Phnom Penh – An official impact assessment for a controversial new Lao dam on the Mekong river has been directly copied and pasted in parts from a previous project, a coalition of groups fighting to protect the river has alleged.
The allegation came as Mekong River Commission (MRC) member countries met Thursday in Laos’s capital, Vientiane, to discuss the study in question, the Pak Lay Transboundary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Cumulative Impact Assessment.
Save the Mekong alleged in statement that large sections of that study “are simply copied directly from the Pak Beng [report]” – a 2015 assessment for a different project that an MRC review found was inaccurate.
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