Myanmar: In Myanmar, China's Scramble for Energy Threatens Livelihoods of Villagers
Sep 5, 2014
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Hereward Holland, National Geographic
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OIL MOUNTAIN, Myanmar—The mood at a ramshackle bar in this village on Ramree Island, in western Myanmar's Rakhine State, is one of fatalism punctuated by the occasional comic trope.
As dusk falls, Nyint Shwe, a one-man oil driller, knocks back a warm can of Chang beer and laments the recent boom in natural gas drilling, driven by China's growing appetite for energy.