The December 2011 ministerial-level meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) agreed to delay a decision on building the Xayaburi dam pending further studies on the impacts of the controversial ...

The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam's collapse plague other hydropower projects across the country. Europe’s Pöyry Energy and its controversial role as Xayaburi dam ...

The first mainstream dam was the Xayaburi dam, just downstream from Luang Prabang, which began operating in 2019 and has already affected the city, said Philip Hirsch, a professor emeritus of ...

In late 2012, after years of denials, Laotian officials admitted that construction of the Thai-financed Xayaburi dam, on a remote stretch of the Mekong in northern Laos, was under way. New dams ...

The WWF commissioned review – coordinated by the WorldFish Centre with participation from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) found that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA ...

Sue gains access to visit the Xayaburi Dam, the first dam to span the Lower Mekong.

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more clear. Policymakers have clung to the fiction that damage to fish ...

Concerns were raised at a forum yesterday over the likelihood of the proposed construction of the Sanakham hydropower project, a run-of-river dam, having a bad impact on Thai communities downstream.

Laos has completed two dams on the Mekong River, the 1,285-megawatt Xayaburi Dam and the 260-megawatt Don Sahong Dam last year, despite objections by environmental groups. Objectors said the dams ...