Despite protests, Burma's junta and China pushing ahead with first dam on the Irrawaddy
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Chinese companies have begun a project to build a giant 152-meter-high dam on the Irrawaddy River, the first to block one of Asia's great river systems. Damming the Irrawaddy, a new report launched today by the Kachin Development Networking Group, exposes the social and environmental impacts of the dam, including the displacement of an estimated 10,000 people in northern Burma's Kachin State.
