Prompt: Who would have benefited from the construction of the dam and power plant? Why did the people of the region oppose the construction? What is the opinion of the author/website on the construction project, and how can you tell?
China would benefit 90% of the electricity.
oppsing the construction because it could flood 766 square kilometers of forested area and cause irreversible damage to Burma's key river system, as well as to downstream rice paddy communities.
environmental impacts, displacement, and threats to cultural sites, but also because the dam is located less than 100 kilometers from a major fault line, posing a risk to basin inhabitants should an earthquake weaken the dam structure or cause landslides in the reservoir. If the Myitsone Dam were to break during an earthquake, it would endanger the lives of hundred of thousands of people by flooding Kachin State's largest city, Myikyina.
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