WASHINGTON DC — Members of Mekong River Commission and civil society groups will be heading to Luang Prabang in Laos to attend the regional stakeholder meeting on Wednesday to discuss Laos’ proposal to build a third dam on the Mekong mainstream, the Pak Beng.
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Courtney Weatherby, research analyst with the Southeast Asia program at the Stimson Center, based in Washington D.C., said expectations for a change to the plans were low given previous exchanges with Laos over the Don Sahong and Xayaburi dams.
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