Tasang dam

Tasang dam
	The Saluen River downstream of the construction site
Location:	Myanmar, Shan State
Tributaries:	Salutes
Drain:	Salutes
	Myanmar
Coordinates	20 ° 27 '23 " N , 98 ° 39' 0" E Coordinates: 20 ° 27 '23 " N , 98 ° 39' 0" E
	Data on the structure
Lock type:	CFR dam
Construction time:	2007–2022 (planned)
Height of the barrier structure :	228 m
Operator:	Myanmar Electric Power Enterprise
	Data on the reservoir
Water surface	870 km²

The Tasang Dam is a planned multi-purpose dam on the Saluen River in Shan State in Myanmar . The dam will be built 480 km northeast of Rangoon and 52.8 km west of Mong Tong . It will be the largest hydropower plant in Burma and the largest dam in Southeast Asia. The Tasang Dam will cost more than $ 6 billion.

Expansion of the Saluen

The Tasang Dam is the first and largest of five that the Myanmar government plans to build on the Saluen. Project studies go back to 1981. Thailand is the main investor and 85% of the electricity generated will be exported to Thailand. There is already a reservoir in the upper reaches of the Saluen.

Building

The dam is to be a 228 m high CFR dam . The hydropower plant will have a capacity of 7,110 MW and generate 35,446 GWh of electricity annually.

Contract partner

The client is the state-owned electricity company Myanmar Electric Power. The project participants are the Thai MDX Group from Thailand as main contractual partner , the Chinese China Gezhouba Group Co., Sinohydro Corporation , China Southern Power Grid Co., China Three Gorges Corporation and the British company Malcolm Dunstan & Associates.

Construction work

The groundbreaking ceremony took place in March 2007. Roads, shelters and power supplies have so far been built near the construction site. Hardly any construction work has taken place since then. Completion is planned for 2022.

criticism

There is considerable local and international opposition to the project. Since 1996, 100,000 to 300,000 people, mostly from the Shan people, are said to have been resettled. The 870 km² large water area of the reservoir , which is located near the Chinese border, will largely divide the Shan State in half. Social problems, unrest, environmental problems and human rights violations are feared.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tasang Dam . Burma Rivers Network. 2010. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010. 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. Retrieved February 6, 2010. @1@ 2

↑ Myanmar-Thai hydropower project starts on Thanlwin river . In: Salween Watch . Live journal. May 4, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2010.

↑ Thailand renews plans to build controversial Myanmar dam , Trend Capital. March 16, 2008. Retrieved December 24, 2009.

^ Flooding the Future: Hydropower and Cultural Survival in the Salween River Basin . In: Burma Project . EarthRights International. 2005-28-28. Retrieved February 8, 2010.

[BRN-1] Tasang Dam . Burma Rivers Network. 2010. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010. 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. Retrieved February 6, 2010. @1@ 2

[Watch-2] Myanmar-Thai hydropower project starts on Thanlwin river . In: Salween Watch . Live journal. May 4, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2010.

[trend160308-3] Thailand renews plans to build controversial Myanmar dam , Trend Capital. March 16, 2008. Retrieved December 24, 2009.

[Flooding-4] Flooding the Future: Hydropower and Cultural Survival in the Salween River Basin . In: Burma Project . EarthRights International. 2005-28-28. Retrieved February 8, 2010.