Myanmar’s government said on Tuesday it had no plans to resume work on a Chinese-backed hydropower dam, currently halted, despite intensifying pressure to do so from Beijing.
U Thaung Tun, minister of investment and foreign relations, said that while Myanmar considered relations with its powerful neighbour “important” and was working to devise an alternative power project, the Myitsone dam in the northern Kachin state would have “enormous impact on the environment and on the people and villages in the area”.
Myanmar’s former government of President Thein Sein suspended work on Myitsone in 2011 after state-owned China Power Investment Corporation (CPIC) had begun work, in response to intense local opposition from Kachin groups.
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