Qualla: Hatgyi Dam https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/5/j/e/hatgyi-dam-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hatgyi Dam https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam Hatgyi Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. The Salween River has flowed through Karen State for millennia without a dam. At least thirteen indigenous groups live along its banks, fishing its waters, farming its floodplains, and navigating its currents between Myanmar and Thailand. The Hatgyi Dam project proposes to change that -- a massive gravity dam 33 kilometers downstream of where the Moei River meets the Salween, designed to generate up to 1,500 megawatts of electricity, the vast majority of which would be exported to Thailand. The dam does not yet exist. But the conflict around it has been reshaping the region for years.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/5/j/e/hatgyi-dam-wp/w5je-hatgyi-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hatgyi Dam: Power for Export, Consequences for Home https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. The Hatgyi Dam is a joint venture funded by Thailand's Electricity Generating Authority (EGAT), China's Sinohydro Corporation, and Myanmar's Ministry of Electric Power alongside the International Group of Entrepreneurs (IGE). EGAT, a Thai government-owned company that has been bu...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/5/j/e/hatgyi-dam-wp/w5je-hatgyi-dam-power-for-export-consequences-for-home.mp3 0:06 2 full Hatgyi Dam: Nine Villages Under Water https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. In 2013, the Karen National Union informed local villagers that nine Karen villages would be flooded and damaged if the Hatgyi Dam were built. The prospect of displacement is not abstract here -- these are communities with homes, farms, and histories rooted in the Salween's flood...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/5/j/e/hatgyi-dam-wp/w5je-hatgyi-dam-nine-villages-under-water.mp3 0:06 3 full Hatgyi Dam: Soldiers at the Dam Site https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. The Hatgyi Dam has become entangled with Myanmar's longest-running civil conflict. International Rivers has documented how the project has obstructed peace negotiations between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Myanmar Army. A temporary ceasefire was signed between the two s...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/5/j/e/hatgyi-dam-wp/w5je-hatgyi-dam-soldiers-at-the-dam-site.mp3 0:06 4 full Hatgyi Dam: A River on a Fault Line https://qualla.com/hatgyi-dam/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. The environmental stakes are as high as the political ones. The Salween is one of the longest free-flowing rivers in Southeast Asia, and the Hatgyi Dam site sits near an active geological fault line. Environmental researcher Steve Thompson of KESAN warned that the dam could wipe ...

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