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Subject: Villagers hail return of fish as gates re-opened
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org) Posted: 06/18/2001 By mritchie@iatp.org
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PAK MOON DAM
17June 2001
Villagers hail return of fish as gates re-opened
Two new studies of impact under way
Vasana Chinvarakorn
The Pak Moon community yesterday celebrated the opening of Pak Moon dam's
eight sluice gates.
Villagers perform a ceremony to celebrate the opening of sluice gates at
Pak Moon dam after a long delay. Pak Moon villagers won permission from the
government to open all eight sluice gates for four months to gauge
environmental impact from the free flow of the river. _ JETJARAS NA RANONG
A ceremony witnessed the mass return of several species of fish as well as
a revival of the local fish market.
The mood, however, was slightly dampened by a report that a consultant
agency was to conduct a parallel study to another team already appointed by
the cabinet.
On April 17, the Thaksin Shinawatra cabinet ordered the Electricity
Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) to open all gates of the Pak Moon
dam for a period of four months, originally scheduled for May 15 to August 15.
Moreover, Ubon Ratchathani University was assigned to conduct a study on
how to revive the ecology and way of life along the Moon River.
After a month's delay, Egat finally opened all eight gates on June 14.
Previously, the cabinet's resolution was not carried out, as Egat claimed
there was another group of villagers protesting against the opening.
Lamduan Serathong, 49, was elated at the return of the fish.
She claimed there were now between 40-50 species of fish that have started
to come back for the first time since the dam went into operation in June
1994.
Thongcharoen Sihatham, a leader of the Assembly of the Poor which
spearheads the decade-old protest, was optimistic the study commissioned by
the cabinet would bring the truth out into the open and support the
villagers' repeated demand to have the Pak Moon dam decommissioned.
However, the National Economic and Social Development Board has also
commissioned a team to conduct a similar study, but at a much higher budget
of 94 million baht, compared to the 10-million-baht budget granted to the
Ubon Ratchathani University team.
The Pak Moon villagers raised the possibility that Egat may be behind the
NESDB's move.
The consultant agency was allegedly the same one commissioned to study the
Kaeng Sua Ten dam. Both Egat and NESDB officials were not available for
comment yesterday.
Prasittiporn Kan-Onsri [NOI]
Friends of the People [FOP.]
99 , 3rd Floor Nakorn Sawan Road
Pomprab Bangkok 10100. THAILAND.
Tel, Fax ; (662) 2811916 , 2812595
email ; fopthai@asiaaccess.net.th fopthai@hotmail.com
Assembly of the Poor. http://www.thai.to/aop and
http://www.yod.net/members/noi
Protection Mun River Network. http://www.thai.to/munriver and
http://www.yod.net/members/bun
Protection Yom River Network. http://www.thai.to/yomriver and
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