ASEAN-China Expo rekindles hopes for hydropower project (4)

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EXPECTING A FAVORABLE TURN

Li said his company has never given up.

By providing provisions and seeds to relocated people, the company has helped more than 2,000 residents make a living outside the dam area.

"We also strengthened exchanges with locals to communicate about the pros and cons of the project design and optimize our layout so as to reduce construction costs and time once the resumption is approved," Li said.

Utun Naing Aung, chairman of the Energy and Environmental Group, maintained that clean and renewable hydropower should be the top priority of Myanmar's energy development.

The World Bank has also resumed lending to hydropower projects so as to eradicate poverty and reduce carbon dioxide emissions, he noted.

Aung Pan, a relocated farmer who moved out of his thatched roof cottage in the dam area into a two-story wood-brick house, received free power supply and provisions from Li's company. But he is barely happy.

"We hope the hydropower station can resume construction and the joint venture can stay," he said.

"I will pray for the early resumption of the project as it will boost regional development and improve the well-being of relocated people," said Abbot Deizida, who has moved out of the dam area with his temple.

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