VietNamNet Bridge – More and more hydropower plant projects have been drawn up by investors, who have heard that Vietnam is thirsty for power for its industrialization process.

The Ba River is now getting depleted, because it has to “bleed itself dry” for the An Khe – Kanak hydropower plant.

While enterprises in nearly all business fields of the national economy have gone bankrupted or reported losses, hydropower plants have reported big profits. This explains why investors rush to inject money in hydropower plants.

When hydropower power plant dams are built in masses on Mekong River, this would not only seriously damage the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, but would also threaten the world’s food security.

When raising the dam elevation by one more meter, the Song Con 2 hydropower plant expects to earn 10 billion dong more a year. However, hundreds of households have shouted for help because they have lost land.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 60 hectares of forests in the core area of the Yok Don National Park in Dak Lak province would be eliminated when the Drang Phok hydropower plant is built.

They received compensation for crops, trees, and career change worth of thousands to hundreds of thousands of USD from Dakdrink hydropower project, but many households in Son Tay district, Quang Ngai province, are still at risk of poverty.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials of Bac Tra My district, Quang Nam Province, confirmed that the district would not welcome earthquake inspection teams because experts could not help solve quakes in the district.