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International Rivers’ briefing paper describing the Nam Theun 2 project, its unsettled questions and broken promises, at the time of inauguration in December 2010.
The US$1.3 billion Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2), located in the small Southeast Asian country of Laos, has been marketed as a model dam project and a development panacea for cash-strapped Laos. But more than 110,000 people continue to suffer project impacts and are paying the real price of NT2.
- Press Release: Nam Theun 2 Dam Inauguration Hides Real Costs of the Project (December 7, 2010)
- Civil society letter to the World Bank and ADB (December 6, 2010)
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