OPINION

Dam resettlement strategies need review

News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 25/11/2012

» Hydropower is often said to be less potentially harmful than other energy sources such as coal and nuclear, but when the issue of resettlement is thrown into the equation the true costs of hydropower mount rapidly. This is something dam developers themselves admitted at a recent Mekong Forum held in Hanoi in Vietnam.