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DAM-L PAK MOOL DAM: Sluice gates opened as deal struck (fwd)
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Subject: PAK MOOL DAM: Sluice gates opened as deal struck
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:59:27 +0700
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Sun, June 03, 2001
PAK MOOL DAM: Sluice gates opened as deal struck
All eight sluice-gates of Pak Mool Dam were opened yesterday after the Electricity Genera-ting Authority of Thailand (Egat) agreed to compensate protestors with Bt5 million. Ubon Ratchathani Governor Rungrit Makarapong, together with high-ranking officials from the province, succeeded in making a deal with the protestors who did not want the gates to be opened and had occupied the area in front of the gates.
Under the agreement, Egat will set up a fund worth Bt5 million for Hua Hew villagers as compensation for the damage after the gates are opened.
However, the Hua Hew villagers, led by Supan Wangpol, want protestors under the umbrella of the Assembly of the Poor (AOP) to move out of the dam site too.
Although the Cabinet's resolution on May 17, responding |to demands by the AOP, asked Egat to open the gates for four months from May 24, the resolution was only enforced yester-day.
Egat claimed that if it had opened the gates on May 24, the strong current of water would have swept away all the Hua Hew villagers who were camping in front of the gates.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra even visited the site on May 25 to negotiate a compromise with the protestors who did not want the gates to be opened, but he failed to make a deal with the villagers.
Pak Mool villagers who had joined the AOP demanded that Egat open the gates, since there had been no fish in the Mool River since the dam had begun storing the water.
They hoped that fish would swim up to the river if the gates were opened.
Hua Hew villagers who were against the AOP's demand claimed that opening the gates would affect the aqua-culture.
Prasittiporn Kan-Onsri [NOI]
Friends of the People [FOP.]
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