ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (SPECIAL INVESTIGATION) ON HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT OF AYEYAWADY RIVER BASIN ABOVE MYITKYINA, KACHIN STATE, MYANMAR

Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association (BANCA)

October 2009

This important report appeared on the website of the Burma Rivers Network – http://www.burmariversnetwork.org/ in July 2011. The full report (945 pages) was very large and may be inaccessible to many users. It was also in a pdf format which prevented copying text, which is also a problem for some people. The Online Burma/Myanmar Library (OBL) reduced the size of the document using the Adobe pdf writer “reduce file” function and is in the process of passing the files through Finereader, an optical character recognition (OCR) programme, and the Adobe “scan to pdf” function in order to convert them to a format which allows copying of text. We have so far only converted Part III, but since the hydropower project is currently being discussed in and outside Burma, we are issuing the work in progress and will upload the remaining conversions when completed.

The report contains 3 parts and 3 appendices.

ORIGINAL SIZE AND FORMAT

Full report (3 parts plus the 3 appendices – 35MB):

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/EIA_Report-original-full.pdf

http://www.burmariversnetwork.org/images/stories/publications/english/EIA_Report.pdf

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Parts I-III (5.1MB)

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/Myitsone_EIA.pdf

Appendix on Floral Ecology (2.3MB)

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/EIA-FloralEcology.pdf

Appendix on Preliminary Investigation (reduced but not converted – 1.1MB)

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/EIA-Preliminary_Investigation.pdf

Appendix on Wildlife Trade (2.2MB)

http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/EIA-Wildlife_Trade.pdf

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