Dams (Current Event)

China would be benefitted because that 90% of the electricity would be going to China. However, the quality of the dam was questionable. They stopped the construction of the dam was because it would have flooded. The dam is also placed on an area that has many different kinds of life that would potentially be flooded. The dam would cause irreversible damage to burmas key river system,as long as rice patty farmers because it would stop the water flow. Groups in Burma, not only did they close the dam because of environmental impacts, displacement, and threats to cultural sites, but the dam is located a little less than 100 kilometers from a huge fault If there was an earthquake that were to weaken the dam, it would flood and kill thousands of people. The people who wrote the article clearly want the dam to be shut down and they think that dams are wrong. The websites mission is to close dams.