မြစ်ဆုံရေကာတာအကြောင်း အမှားနဲ့အမှန် – – Myitsone Myths and Truths XIII

 

 

 

ကော်မရှင် အဖွဲ့ကြီးကိုကြိုဆိုပါတယ်နော်

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ရေအားမှလျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအားရယူနိုင်ရန် တရုပ်က အာဖရိက နိုင်ငံ တွေကို
ဘယ်လိုကူညိ နေလဲ ဆိုတာကို တင်ပြ ပါ့မယ်၊

တချိန်က ဥရောပ ကိုလိုနီနယ်ချဲ့တို့ နဲ့ဂျပန်ဖက်ဆစ်တို့လို

နယ်ချဲ့သတ်ဖြတ်ဖိနှိပ်နေတာ မျိုး မဟုတ်ပါ၊

အခြေခံက ကုန်သယ် လုပ် ပြီး နိုင်ငံချင်း ကုန် ဖလှယ်လိုတာပါ၊

နှစ်ဦးနှစ်ဘက် အကျိုးအတွက်ပါ၊
ဒီအကြားမှာ
လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ် ရေး၊လူနေအိမ် အထပ်တိုက်တွေ၊ဆေးရုံတွေ၊
ဆိပ်ကမ်းမြို့တွေ၊အမြန်ရထားတွေ၊ရေကာတာတွေ စသဖြင့်
ဝိုင်းဝန်း တည်ဆောက် ပေးတယ်၊ ၎င်းတို့အတွက် ငွေချေးစိုက်ထုတ်

ရင်းနှီးပေးတယ်၊ခေတ်မှီ စိုက်ပျိုးရေး ပညာ အပါအဝင် ဆက်လက်ပြီး ကိုယ်ပိုင်ထိန်းသိမ်း
နိုင်ရန် သင်ကြားလေ့ကျင့်ပေးတယ်၊

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China Wins Africa Friends by Building Dam in Ebola Outbreak

bloomberg.com 2015-9-29 (နံမယ်ကျော် US စီးပွါးရေးသတင်းစာ)

ငါတို့ရဲ့စီးပွါးရေး အခြေခံအုတ်မြစ် (ရေအားလျှပ်စစ်) ကိုသူတို့က
လုပ်ပေးတယ်၊

လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား မရှိရင် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး လုပ်ငန်း မ ဖြစ် ထွန်းနိုင် ပါ

 

“This gives us a real basis for our economy. Without power there is no development.“

As workers at Western companies fled West Africa during the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak, a state-owned Chinese company carried on. China International Water & Electric Corp. completed the Kaleta dam on budget and a year ahead of schedule in July, ending chronic power shortages in the capital, Conakry. Construction continued even as companies including London-based Rio Tinto Plc and Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal SA paused projects in the region.

Ebola ပိုးကိုကြောက်လို့ ထွက်ပြေး ကြတဲ့ အနောက် တိုင်း အဖွဲ့တွေလို
မဟုတ်ပါ၊ တရုပ်တို့ကဆက်နေပြီး ရေကာတာ ကို တနှစ်ဆောအောင်
အပြီးလုပ်ပေးလို့ တရုပ်ကငါတို့ရဲ့စီးပွါးကို ကယ်တင်လိုက်တယ်Guinea နိုင်ငံ
ရေကာတာ အကြီးအကဲ Fofana ကဆို

“The Chinese saved us,” Lansana Fofana, 63, said, as he stood on the $526 million hydroelectric dam that China financed and he oversees. For Fofana, the 1,545-meter (5,069-feet) wall is a monument to the positive role China can play in Africa. In other parts of the continent, Chinese companies have been accused of treating workers poorly, building substandard infrastructure and damaging the environment.

 

“With Western companies, costs would have gone up and they would have walked out as soon as the first case of Ebola hit,” Fofana said as he walked beneath a buzzing pylon toward the barrier’s roaring overflow. “This gives us a real basis for our economy. Without power there is no development.”

 

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South Africa

တောင်အာဖရိက နိုင်ငံ ရေကာတာ အကြီးအကဲ နဲ့တွေ့ဆုံစကားပြော မေးမြန်းခြင်း

 

OB: In China and elsewhere, many say one way to alleviate environmental pressures is to shift to small-scale hydropower as opposed to large-scale dams. What are your views on that?

အကြီးစား ရေကာတာ ဆိုးကျိုးပေးနိုင်သလောက်
အငယ်စား အလတ် စား ရေကာတာ တွေ ကလဲ
ပေးနိုင်တာပါ၊ ဒိထက်ပင် ဆိုးကျိုးပေးနိုင်တယ်၊
ရေတွေ လေလွင့်တာ အငွေ့ပျံတာတို့ ပိုများလာ၊
အိန္ဒိယလဲ က ဒီပြသနာ ကို တိတိကျကျ ထောက်ပြ နိုင်
လာတာကိုကျနော်တို့ကသိတယ်,

MM:  The evidence is that the proliferation of small-scale activity can do as much, and quite often more, damage than large-scale projects. In South Africa, we ban the construction of large numbers of small dams in some areas, because of the water inefficiency that they introduce, because of the additional evaporation. We know that problem has been identified in India as well.

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အသေးစားရေကာတာတွေ ထောင်ချီဖြစ်လာလို့လဲ
ကွပ်ကဲဘို့လွန်စွာမှ ခက်ခဲလာြပီး သာမန်(ထုတ်လုပ်မှု)
စံညွှန်းကိုတောင် မ မှီနိုင်ဘို့များတယ်၊ (ထွက်သင့်
သလောက် မ ထွက်ပါ)

 

So I think that “small versus large” is a complete red herring. You need to look then at the impact of a thousand small activities, and they are much more difficult to control and they are much more likely to be sub-optimal.

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သဘာဝစွမ်းအင်ထုတ်လုပ်မှု၊ ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးကုန်ကျစရိတ်သက်သာမှု၊
ရေဘေးမဖြစ်အောင်ထိန်းသိမ်းyရေး၊ခရီးသယ်ကြိုလုပ်ငန်း၊လမ်းပန်းဆက်
သွယ်ရေး မျိုးစုံတို့မှာ အကြီးsစားရေကာတာ က သာလွန်တယ်ဆိုတာ
ကျနော်ကThree Gorges ရေကာတာ ဆောက်လုပ်ဆဲနဲ့ဆောက်ပြီးလို့လည်ပတ်
စဉ်ကိုယ်တိုင်ကိုယ်ကျသွားရောက်လေ့လာခဲ့တယ်၊

I recently visited the Three Gorges. I visited it when it was under construction and I’ve now visited when it was in operation. Quite frankly, I think in terms of scale, in terms of the amount of green energy you’re getting, in terms of the improved transport efficiencies, in terms of flood control, in terms of all sorts of economic benefits, in terms of the local tourism and employment benefits, you can really look at that project and say look at the costs and look at the benefits. And those kinds of costs and benefits would probably not have been achieved in small-scale projects in the same way that they were achieved there.

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လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဆယ်စုနှစ်တွင်တရုပ်နိုင်ငံက
စီးပွါးရေး၊ သဘာဝဝန်ကျင်၊ နဲ့ လူမှုရေး
မူသုံးမျိုး သုံးတန် ကို မျှတစွာလက်ကိုင်ပြုလာ
တယ်လို့ကျနော်ယူဆတယ်၊

ရေ ဆိုတဲ့ သယံဇာတတွေကို အကျိုးရှိစွာ စီမံကွပ်ကဲ
ခဲ့တယ်၊

သို့သော် အခြားနိုင်ငံ နဲ့ပူးပေါင်းပြီး ရေကာတာ တည်ဆောက်

ကူညီတဲ့အခါ ကျတော့ သဘာဝ ဝန်းကျင် ကို သိပ် အာရုံ

မ စူးစိုက် မ လွန်ကဲ စေချင်ပါ၊

“Small versus large” is an important discussion to have. But I think it would be more useful to look substantively at those three pillars – the social, the economic and the environmental – and try to make sure that they are balanced. And my impression is that China has made huge strides in 10 years towards rebalancing their water resource management discussion and I would be very sad to see them moving in the direction of too great a focus on environment. Particularly if that’s then going to impact on their partner countries.

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I find it interesting, and there is empirical evidence, that China’s re-focus has completely changed the dams and development debate. The anti-dam advocates are now turning most of their attention to China. They are very concerned about China, they are trying to influence it. I think we should be celebrating China’s contribution to African development in particular, even as we warn about the dangers of careless project implementation.

(Mike Muller is a South African water expert, engineer and writer on development issues. He is also commissioner at South Africa’s National Planning Commission and a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg; a member of the Global Water Partnership’s Technical Advisory Committee and an advisor to the UN World Water Assessment Programme. He was previously director general of South Africa’s Department of Water Affairs and Forestry.

Olivia Boyd caught up with him on the sidelines of a water conference in Oxford, where he was speaking about China’s role in African hydropower development).

From The Third Pole.net
China brings dams back to Africa
Chinese investors have broken a boycott on investment in African dams – and loosened the grip of the environment lobby. This is good news for the continent, water expert Mike Muller tells Olivia Boyd.

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တရုပ် အရင်းအနှီး စိုက်ထုတ် လို့ဖြစ်စေ၊ဆောက်လုပ်ပေးလို့
ဖြစ်စေ ပါဝင် ကူညီ နေတဲ့ အာဖရိကတိုက်၂၂ နိုင်ငံက ရေကာတာ ဇယား

List of Chinese financed dams in Africa

 

China, through its Export and Import Bank, Sinohydro, China International Water & Electric Corporation (CWE), China and China National Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Corporation (CWHEC); as well as China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation (CMEC); are fuelling the dam boom in Africa. In a number of cases, the construction of dams are endeavoured in areas of high biodiversity without a concomitant Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. Notwithstanding, the following list, indicates the 22 countries in Africa where Chinese companies are financing and constructing dams or have plans to do so.

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Country Dam(s)

Angola Ganjelas

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Cameroon Memve’ ele; Mekin

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Central African Republic Boali 3

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DRC Zongo II; Banunga; Ivunga; Semuliki,

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Equatorial Guinea Djiploho,

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Ethiopia Finachaa-Amerti Neshe; Genalle-Dawa III; Gilgel Gibe III; Tezeke; Chemoga Yeda; Gibe IV; Halele Werabesa

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Gabon Grand Poubara; Belinga,

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Ghana Bui

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Guinea Kaleta,

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Ivory coast Soubre,

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Madagascar Ambodiroka.

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Mali Gouina; Taoussa,

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Mauritius Bagatelle,

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Mozambique Mpanda Nkuwa

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Nigeria Zungeru; Mambilla; Zamfara,

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Republic of Congo Imoulou; Bouenza,

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South Sudan Biden,

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Sudan Upper Atbara; Merowe; Dal-Kajbar; Roseires,

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Togo Adjearala

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Uganda Karuma ; Ayago; Isimba,

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Zambia Kariba North Bank Ext; Kaufe Gorge Lower; Musonda; Lunza,

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Zimbabwe, Kariba south Ext,

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Source Brautigam, D. Hwang, J. &Wang, L. 2015. Chinese-Financed Hydropower Projects in Sub- Saharan Africa. Policy Brief. The SAIS China Africa Research Initiative.

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China takes the lion’s share in electrifying Africa

Bui Dam in Ghana, Africa

Ghana ကBui  ရေကာတာ

SubSahara ဆဟာရ သဲကန္တရ အောက် ပိုင်း အာဖရိက တိုက် ဒေသကြီး သို့
လျှပ်စစ် စွမ်းအား ၃ဝ % ထပ်တိုး လာအောင် တရုပ် ကုမ္ပဏီတွေက

ကြီးမားတဲ့ အခန်း ကနေ ပါဝင် ဆောင်ရွက်ပေး တယ်လို့ IEA ကမ႓ာ့ စွမ်းအင် အဖွဲ့ကဆို

 

8 July 2016 | By GCR Staff (Global Construction Review)

Chinese companies are playing huge role in bringing electricity to sub-Saharan Africa and can take credit for 30% of new capacity in the region, according to a study published this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

While more than 635 million people still live without electricity there, Chinese companies channeling state funds into all different types of power stations will have brought light and power to around 36 million people by 2020.

“African countries have relied heavily on China to support the expansion of their electricity systems, to enable growth and improve living standards”
– Paul Simons, IEA Deputy Executive Director
The sums are vast: the IEA finds that China invested around $13bn between 2010 and 2015 in power projects, as China’s contribution dwarfs that of any other non-African country.

Over half of all power projects are based on renewable sources, of which most are hydropower, the study, Boosting the Power Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: China’s Involvement, reveals.

 

အာဖရိကနိုင်ငံတွေက ဓာတ် အားရဘို့အရေး
နိုင်ငံကြီးပွါးဘို့နဲ့လူနေမှုအဆင့်အတန်းမြှင့်တင်ဘို့အရေး
တရုပ်နိုင်ငံကိုအားကိုးရတယ်၊

 

“African countries have relied heavily on China to support the expansion of their electricity systems, to enable growth and improve living standards,” said Paul Simons, the IEA’s Deputy Executive Director, on the report’s launch.

Mutual benefits

တရုပ်ကြောင့် လူဦးရေ ၃၆ သန်း လျှပ်စစ်မီးအားရလာပြီး
၂၀၂ဝ ကျရင် လူဦးရေ သန်းပေါင်း ၁၂ဝ လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား ရလာ
လိမ့်မယ်

Between 2010 and 2020, a total of 120 million people will have gained access to grid electricity. Thirty-six million of these, or 30%, will have done so thanks to Chinese contractors. China also provides off-grid power with solar energy kits donated in countries like Rwanda and Comoros.

အကြီးပိုင်း (အပြာရောင် အစိတ်အပိုင်) က ရေအားမှလျှပ်စစ် စွမ်းအား ပါ

Distribution of Chinese projects in power capacity, by sub-region, 2010-20 (IEA)
Benefits flow both ways. China’s involvement in Africa bolsters the internationalisation of Chinese companies, in line with the government’s “Go Out” policy initiated in 1999. Meanwhile, the current economic slowdown in China and overcapacity in various sectors further impels Chinese companies to search for new markets overseas.

There is also a long-term strategy behind China’s powering of Africa. The industrialisation and economic development of the region is seen by Chinese stakeholders as important for eventually bolstering Chinese exports to the region, the IEA says.

This is why the state plays such a large role. Over 90% of Chinese-built power projects in the region are contracted by Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Africa is the largest overseas market for some major Chinese energy infrastructure SOEs, which provide integrated services centred on turnkey projects.

Doing it all

Generally with Chinese government support, Chinese stakeholders provide integrated solutions – power generation capacity plus transmission and distribution – through a combination of Chinese loans, government-driven investment and equity investment.
Headquarters of foreign contractors for greenfield power plants in sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-15
China’s approach to development assistance differs from OECD countries. For example, China is not covered by the Arrangements on Officially Supported Export Credits, which guides OECD countries in export credit financing.

In the 2010-15 period, loans, credits and foreign direct investment from China into the sub-Saharan power sector amounted to around $13bn, around one-fifth (20%) of all investments in the sector. Most of this financing comes from the Export-Import Bank of China.

IEA အရ တရုပ်ရဲ့ရေကာတာ ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးကုန်ကျစားရိတ် က (သူများထက်)
ပိုပြီးသက်သာ တယ်၊ ချွင်းချက်၊ တရုပ်ပြည်မှာဆောက်တဲ့ရေကာတာ ထက်
တော့ ပိုကုန်ကျတယ် (ခရီးစရိတ် သယ်ယူပို့ဆောင်ခတွေ ပါမှာ)၊

 

According to the IEA, construction costs of power plants built by Chinese builders are lower overall than in other parts of the globe but higher than those for plants built in China.

Ever-rising demand

 

လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား မ ရလို့ လူဦးရေ သန်းပေါင်း ၆၃၅ (မြန်မာ ရဲ့ ၁၁ဆကျော်)ရဲ့
ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးကို အပြင်းအထန် ဟန့်တားချုပ်နှောင် ထားတယ်၊

စက်ရုံလုပ်ငန်း၊ကျန်းမာရေး၊ပညာရေး အလုံစုံ တို့က ပုံမှန်ရမဲ့ လျှပ်စစ် စွမ်းအား
ကို အမှီသဟဲ ပြုနေတယ်

Over 635 million people live without electricity in the region, which severely constrains economic growth. Manufacturing, healthcare and education all rely on reliable sources of electricity. The IEA also believes the lack of power also holds back the region’s agriculture sector, which remains unmodernised and accounts for 20% of regional GDP and 65% of employment.

Over 90% of Chinese-built power projects are contracted by Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) (IEA)
Demand will only get more acute, according to the IEA. It says sub-Saharan electricity demand is expected to more than triple by 2040, to reach 1,300 terawatt hours (TWh) under current and proposed government policies and measures.

By 2040, demand from industry will double while residential demand will grow by more than five times current levels. At a rate of 6% per year, electricity demand growth will therefore exceed GDP growth throughout the next 25 years to 2040.
Chinese-added generation capacity mix in sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-20. Other renewables includes solar, wind, biomass and waste. (IEA)
On the plus side, it says, sub-Saharan Africa has ample primary energy resources to meet this demand: recoverable oil resources will be sufficient for the next 100 years, coal for over 400 years and gas for 600 years, and renewable energy sources (geothermal, hydro, wind and solar) are abundant.

To explore in more detail, view the report here.
Top Image: The Bui Dam, a 400-megawatt hydroelectric scheme on the Black Volta River in Ghana, part-financed by China and built by Sinohydro (ZSM/Wikimedia Commons)

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 Gibe III Dam

 

Africa’s New Friend China Financing $9.3 Billion of Dams for Hydropower When completed in 2013, Gibe III on Ethiopia’s Omo River will be Africa’s tallest dam, a $2.2 billion project .

When completed in 2013, Gibe III on Ethiopia’s Omo River will be Africa’s tallest dam, a $2.2 billion project that conservationists say will deprive birds and hippos of vital habitat. Some 600 miles (965 kilometers) to the north, Sudan is preparing to build the $705 million Kajbar dam on the Nile, which would inundate historic towns and tombs of the Nubian people…

 

Ethiopia ပြည်သူတဦးရဲ့ ဥဒါန်းကျူးရင့် ရင်ဖွင့်ခန်း
တရုပ်နိုင်ငံ ကို ကြိုဆို ဂုဏ်ပြု လိုက်တယ်၊

အာဖရိက တိုက်မှာ Ethiopia က အင်အားကြီးနိုင်ငံပေါ်ထွန်းလာပြီ၊

ရေပေါကြွယ်တဲ့  Ethiopia က လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအားပေါကြွယ် လာပြီး
( ရေနံပေါများတဲ့)Saudi Arabia လို မ ကြာခင် ချမ်းသာကြွယ်ဝ တော့မယ်၊

ဂျပန် ဂျာမဏီ တရုပ် အမေရိကန် တွေကEthiopia ကို လာပြီး စက်ရုံတွေ
တည်ဆောက်တော့မယ်၊
ဘာကြောင့်လဲဆိုရင် ကျနော် တို့မှာ အရေးကြီးဆုံး အရာ နှစ်ခု
ရှိလို့၊ ဈေးပေါတဲ့ လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအား နဲ့ သက်သာတဲ့ လုပ်အားခ
နှုန်းထား ဘဲ၊

ကျနော်တို့ အားလုံး ကအလုပ်ရကြမှာ၊ တရုပ်နိုင်ငံ ဖွံ့ဖြိုး လာတဲ့
နည်းလမ်းအတိုင်းပါဘဲ၊

ဘယ်သူက ဒီလိုဖြစ်လာအောင် စွမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သလဲ?
Ethiopia က ရေကာတာကြီးတွေ မ လုပ် ရအောင် ကျနော် တို့ရဲ့
ရန်သူတွေက အ နှစ် ၆၀ လိုက်တား ခဲ့တာ……

Comment by Ras Thomas

Hail to China !!!!!
The new super power which will
enpower Africa to share their
resources with those who used
to monopolize it.
Ethiopia the water of Africa will
be rich and African super power
soon. We will be Saudi Arabia of
electric energy in near future.
Japaness,German,Chiness, and the
American companies will came to
Ethiopia to built their factories
in Ethiopia. Because we have two
most important things they are l
looking for cheap energy and cheap
labour. our people will all have
jobs they need. that is the way
China itself was devoloped.
Who made that possible? Ethiopia
building big dams. that was what
our enemies was stopping us for
last sixty years…..

 

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From Ethiopian News

 

Ehtiopia ကGilgel Gibe III ရေကာတာ ကို အောင်မြင် စွာ တည်ဆောက်

Ethiopia successfully completes Gilgel Gibe III dam

Tigrai Online, June 29, 2015

Against all odds the Ethiopian people and government has successfully completed one of the biggest mega projects, the Gilgel Gibe III hydro electric dam is done.
The Gilgel Gibe III dam is the second largest hydro eclectic dam in Ethiopia next to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – GERD dam which is half way finished. Gilgel Gibe III is a 610 meter-long or 2,000 feet and 243 meter or 797 feet high roller-compacted concrete dam. It will be producing 1870 Megawatt of energy. This huge dam will add almost 2000 megawatts of power to the national grid instantly doubling available power to the country.

( မြစ်ဆုံ က ၆၀၀ဝ မဂ္ဂဝတ် ထုတ်နိုင်တယ် ဆိုတော့ သူတို့ ထက် ၃ ဆ ပိုစွမ်း)

The Gilgel Gibe III project like all Ethiopian mega projects had encountered huge opposition by the prophets of poverty and enemies of the Ethiopian people. Groups like the International Rivers, Friends of Lake Turkana, The Oakland Institute, and other groups hell bent to keep the Ethiopian people begging for wheat flour forever campaigned relentlessly to stop the project until the end. These groups fabricated bogus claims of environmental damage to the local area and beyond. Those groups who are actually working for the interest of their western countries accused the Ethiopian government knowingly trying to hurt the people in the Omo valley.
Those foreigners who have absolutely nothing to do with Ethiopia or the people in the local area manufactured false information claiming the project threatens the food security and local economies of the Lower Omo basin people in southwest Ethiopia and along the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, but nothing can be far from the truth.

The truth behind this special interest groups aggressive opposition to Gilgel Gibe III project is not because they care about the environment or the Omo Valley people. It is because they want Ethiopia to remain poor and destitute and the local people light years from civilization walking around naked for their amusement. They want their respective countries to suck our natural resources and row material dry and want to make our country a dumping ground for their toxic junk.

မွဲတေဆင်းရဲတဲ့ဘဝက ရုန်းကန်လွှတ်မြှောက်နိုင်ခဲ့တာက
စိတ်ဓာတ်ကြံ့ခိုင်တဲ့ Ethiopia အစိုးရ နဲ့ အကင်းပါးတဲ့ Ethiopia လူထု က
အဖျက်သမား ဆန့်ကျင်ရေးအုပ်စုတွေကိုကျော်လွှား
နိုင်လို့ပါ

 

Fortunately the Ethiopian people are far smarter than this groups who are trying to stop our miracle transformation and determined to get out of abject poverty. Thanks to the Ethiopian people and the strong Ethiopian government the mega dam is finished and it will be inaugurated very soon.

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Ethiopia: Chinese Hydropower Investments by CGGC SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 

 

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi state that Ethiopia is welcoming Chinese enterprises to actively participate in Ethiopia’s development of hydropower projects and are welcome to help Ethiopia to make better use of its abundant water resources to generate electricity. Prime Minister Meles, who was co-chairman of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2006 met this weekend in Ethiopia with visiting Mr. Yang Jixue, Chairman of China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC).

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တရုပ်အကူအညီနဲ့ Zambia က ရေကာတာ ကို စ တင် တည်ဆောက်

Zambia launches construction of China-aided hydro-power project 

 

 

NOVEMBER 30, 2015 FROM XINHUA CHINA GO ABROAD Zambia launched on Nov. 28th the construction of a China-aided major hydro-power project, which will go a long way in boosting the country’s electricity generation capacity. The launch came after the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the two governments for the commencement works on the development of the 750 megawatts Kafue Gorge Lower Hydro-power project last month.

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Uganda က Isimba နဲ့ Karumba ရေကာတာ 
၂ ခု စလုံး ကို တရုပ် ကန်ဟရိုက်တာ တွေရကြတယ်

 

 

Uganda has awarded a Chinese firm a contract to build a new dam and power plant on the Nile, a senior government official told Reuters on Monday, the second such project to go to China in less than two months. China, as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, has rapidly expanded its investment in Uganda in recent years, snapping up major government contracts often after extending cheap credit.

 

 

The latest 188-megawatt hydro-electric project, the Isimba hydropower dam, would be developed by China International Water and Electric Corporation (CWE) and China’s Export-Import Bank would give Uganda another loan worth $500 million, which would be on concessional terms, Junior Energy Minister Simon D’Ujanga said.

 

ကျနော်တို့က အတိုးနှုန်းသက်သာ တဲ့ ချေးငွေ တွေကိုလိုက်ရှာနေတာ၊
တရုပ်နိုင်ငံက အဲဒီ ပိုက်ဆံရှိတာ

 

“We’re looking for cheap money to develop our infrastructure projects and China has that money,” he told Reuters, adding that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) had been signed and work on the dam was expected to start in August.

Last month, Uganda gave China’s Sinohydro Group Ltd a contract for the east African nation’s biggest power project yet, Karuma Hydropower, also on the Nile, at a cost of $1.65 billion, partly financed by a $500 million Chinese loan.