Mae Wong Dam

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The Mae Wong Dam ( Thai เขื่อน แม่ วงก์ RTGS : Khuean Mae Wong ) is a construction project planned since 2012 in the east of the Mae Wong National Park in the Thai province of Nakhon Sawan . Completion is planned for 2019 [obsolete] .

The client is The Royal Irrigation Department . The kingdom is the payer. The reason is the use of the water for agricultural purposes in the surrounding area for an area of ​​480 km². The dam is supposed to hold up 258 million m³ of water from the river of the same name. A forest area of ​​17.6 km² would be lost or 2.21% of the national park (through flooding).

criticism

The dam would threaten part of the habitat of the last wild tigers in Thailand.

Several thousand opponents organized a protest march from Kamphaeng Phet Province to Bangkok (388 kilometers) in September 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.robinlea.com ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Campaign battles Mae Wong project . Posted on April 18, 2012 by jfl. Accessed January 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robinlea.com
  2. ↑ www.thejakartapost.com The Jakarta Past: Last tiger sanctuary in SE Asia at risk , Nirmal Ghosh, Asia News Network (The Straits Times), Singapore. Accessed January 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ www.bangkokpost.com Bangkok Post : Another proposed dam, another controversy. Published: 23 Apr 2012. Accessed 23 January 2014.
  4. ↑ www.robinlea.com ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Campaign battles Mae Wong project . Posted on April 18, 2012 by jfl. Accessed January 23, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robinlea.com
  5. ↑ www.thejakartapost.com The Jakarta Past: Last tiger sanctuary in SE Asia at risk , Nirmal Ghosh, Asia News Network (The Straits Times), Singapore. Accessed January 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Anti-dam protesters begin 300km march. In: Bangkok Post , September 10, 2013
  7. ↑ Mae Wong dam protesters in BKK. In: The Nation , September 22, 2013.

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