Myanmar: Thai Power Firm’s Business Tactics ‘Use Burma’s Weak Laws’

Oct 28, 2014 | William Boot, The Irrawaddy
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One of the chief financiers of hydroelectric dams planned on Burma’s Salween River is accused of investing in countries where there is “oppression and limited transparency” in order to achieve its objectives.

Having been restricted in its activities at home, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) wants to use Burma and Laos as proxy suppliers of electricity via environmentally damaging river dams, the US-based NGO International Rivers told The Irrawaddy.