Laos’ hydropower policy puts Vietnam in a dilemma
The proposal to buy electricity from Lao hydropower plants has been facing opposition from many researchers, who say that benefits are small compared with the costs.
[…]The communities living along the Mekong are increasingly vulnerable to similar disasters and threatened by serious environmental problems with plans to build 11 hydropower projects on the Mekong mainstream and 120 others on tributaries by 2040.
