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Wide mountainside, tilt down to Nam Theun 2 dam, built across a tributary of the Mekong River2. Close up of water pouring through dam 3. Wide of water pouring through dam, tilt up to river 4. Wide...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNakai Plateau, Laos - 22 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide mountainside, tilt down to Nam Theun 2 dam, built across a tributary of the Mekong River\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of water pouring through dam \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of water pouring through dam, tilt up to river \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of reservoir \u003cbr/\u003e5. Water pool at power station, tilt up to wide of power station\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up of Lao engineer checking equipment in turbine hall \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of gauge\u003cbr/\u003e8. Pan across turbine hall\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of electricity pylons with Lao peasant walking through shot carrying paddy on his head\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of pylons, shimmering in heat haze\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of power line\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of Lao farming family under shade of a lean-to in rice field\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of a peasant shack with a farmer cutting crops beside it\u003cbr/\u003eNakai Plateau, Laos - 23 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Aiden Glendinning, Nam Theun 2 Power Company spokesperson :\u003cbr/\u003e\"For a long time people have been looking at ways of how to help Laos become a more prosperous company.  And it was identified a long time ago that using its natural resources in a sustainable fashion would be the wisest choice and Nam Theun 2 was seen as perhaps the flagship of that policy.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNakai Plateau, Laos - 22 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of man in control room at power station, in front of row of monitor screens \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of screen showing dam wall\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Nakai Tai village, one of 17 villages that were relocated before the reservoir was filled\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of man carrying wood up road in village\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of woman playing with her child, sitting in front of two large satellite dishes in Nakai Tai village\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of two men carrying large sack of rice from cart\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of old woman with very young children sitting beside her\u003cbr/\u003e22. Young woman with baby, talking with old woman in village\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of home of Tiea, a woman living in Nakai Tai\u003cbr/\u003e24. Workman plastering wall\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide of Tiea chopping vegetables\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of Tiea's face\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close of her knife as she chops vegetables\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE (Lao) Tiea, Resettled villager :\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the old village things just weren't convenient. It wasn't a pretty place, the houses weren't very nice and we didn't have power. In the new village we have electricity, we can see better. In the old place we had to use burning torches.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of churning water at part of the dam infrastructure, downstream from the power station.\u003cbr/\u003eMahaxay village, Laos - 22 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide of river at Mahaxay village, downstream from dam project on Xe Ban Fai River\u003cbr/\u003e31. Men sitting under shelter on banks of river at Mahaxay\u003cbr/\u003e32. Old woman walks down path \u003cbr/\u003e33. Monks crossing Xe Ban Fai River in boat\u003cbr/\u003eNakai Plateau, Laos - 24 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e34. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Christophe Philbe, Managing Director of EDF, South East Asia :\u003cbr/\u003e\"From the beginning the investors and the developers understood the importance of the exemplariness of the project for other projects, not only in Laos but around the world. It's a unique opportunity to set a new standard and to say that today a hydroelectric project has to take this new approach on board.\"\u003cbr/\u003e35. Wide of helicopter carrying World Bank President Robert Zoellick, as it touches down close to one of the resettled villages\u003cbr/\u003e36. Man guiding helicopter down\u003cbr/\u003e37. Mid of Zoellick as he greets welcoming party\u003cbr/\u003e38. Lao woman handing him flowers\u003cbr/\u003e39. Wide of Zoellick looking at display board giving information about the project\u003cbr/\u003eVientiane, Laos - 25 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e40. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, World Bank President :\u003cbr/\u003e\"The idea of the Laotian government is to become the 'battery' of South East Asia because they've got tremendous hydropower potential. So what we're trying to emphasise is, please take the model and the lessons. Let's have the follow-through but let's apply those to other projects and that is still something we are going to have to see and something we'll obviously press to see if we can support.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNakai Plateau, Laos - 22 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e41. Wide of boy fishing in reservoir at Nakai Tai village\u003cbr/\u003e42. Wide of boys playing beside reservoir\u003cbr/\u003e43. Young girls giggling on balcony of house in Nakai Tai\u003cbr/\u003e44. People lugging bag of rice into storage shed\u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 22 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e45. SOUNDBITE (English) Ikuko Matsumoto, International Rivers spokeperson :\u003cbr/\u003e\"The main objection is that the construction is completed already, but the restoration of the livelihoods for the affected communities are just started and there still is no guarantee for the affected people to ensure the sustainable livelihood for the future.  And that is the main objection we have - there is no guarantee.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNakai Plateau, Laos - 23 October 2010\u003cbr/\u003e46. Set up of William Rex, World Bank Team Leader close to project\u003cbr/\u003e47. SOUNDBITE (English) William Rex, World Bank Team Leader :\u003cbr/\u003e\"With respect to some of the criticisms, it's important to keep them in a context which is that we are engaged in a medium-term process, rebuilding the lives of resettlers at the moment, and not everything goes according to plan. I think what's key is that each activity that needs to be changed, because as it was implemented it became clear that it was not meeting the needs of the community concerned, then we need to change it . And we need to recalibrate it so it does meet the objectives that we are aiming for here, which is to leave everybody better off.\"\u003cbr/\u003e48. Mid of boatman guiding boat across reservoir\u003cbr/\u003e49. Boatman's hand on tiller for outboard motor\u003cbr/\u003e50. Wide of reservoir, with trees poking out of water\u003cbr/\u003eA new hydropower project that's transforming the lives of some of the poorest people in Asia is having a dramatic effect on the economy too. \u003cbr/\u003eThe scheme in Laos is making waves much further afield than the impoverished South East Asian nation. \u003cbr/\u003eSupporters of this dam believe it's a game-changer for how such projects are built in the future. \u003cbr/\u003eBut critics warn the 1.3 (b) billion US dollar project, heavily backed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, is missing its targets and betraying the very people it seeks to help.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's taken almost 20 years of planning and now the Nam Theun 2 project is finally in business, turning the spectacular Laos landscape into a stream of revenue.\u003cbr/\u003eThe dam's been built across a small tributary of the Mekong river. It now holds back a 450 square kilometre reservoir, three-quarters the size of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the far end the water plunges off the Nakai plateau down a surge shaft the height of the Eiffel Tower. It's then drawn through a state-of-the-art power station, pumping out 1070 MW of electricity from six giant turbines.\u003cbr/\u003e95 percent of the power is sold to Thailand. \u003cbr/\u003eThe scheme started operations in April 2010 and its economic importance is hard to overstate.  The World Bank estimates that this one project alone accounted for almost forty percent of Laos's GDP growth this year.\u003cbr/\u003eOver the next 25 years it should bring in 2 (b)billion US dollars, money the government has pledged to spend on reducing the poverty that blights this tiny, landlocked nation that has so few resources except the potential of its mountains and rivers.\u003cbr/\u003e\"For a long time people have been looking at ways of how to help Laos become a more prosperous company.  And it was identified a long time ago that using its natural resources in a sustainable fashion would be the wisest choice and Nam Theun 2 was seen as perhaps the flagship of that policy,\" says spokesman for the Nam Theun 2 Power Company, Aiden Glendinning.\u003cbr/\u003eBut there's much more to it than revenue.\u003cbr/\u003eNam Theun 2 is a global test-bed, an attempt to rethink the way dams are developed, to eliminate the impacts that make them so controversial. \u003cbr/\u003eA huge National Protected Area has been established nearby to protect what's described as globally significant biodiversity. The move also prevents silting of the project, caused by illegal logging.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the human side,17 villages - moved to make way for the reservoir - have been rebuilt.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the World Bank 87% of resettlers believe life now is much better than before.\u003cbr/\u003eThe power company has made a legally-binding commitment to double the living standards of the 6300 residents within 5 years and has provided safety nets for those who struggle in the interim.\u003cbr/\u003e25 year old Tiea is one of them. She's thriving in her new home, so much it's being extended.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the old village things just weren't convenient. It wasn't a pretty place, the houses weren't very nice and we didn't have power. In the new village we have electricity, we can see better. In the old place we had to use burning torches,\" she says.\u003cbr/\u003eWith so much diverted water to absorb, river levels downstream of the power station have risen significantly, posing potential problems for the 120,000 people who live on the water's edge, especially around the Xe Ban Fai River area.\u003cbr/\u003eProgrammes have been put in place to monitor and, the power company says, address these as they occur.\u003cbr/\u003eThe partners in the venture - France's energy company EDF, Thailand's EGCO, and the Lao government - say these social and environmental components are as central to the project as the turbines and power lines. \u003cbr/\u003e\"From the beginning the investors and the developers understood the importance of the exemplariness of the project for other projects, not only in Laos but around the world. It's a unique opportunity to set a new standard and to say that today a hydroelectric project has to take this new approach on board, \"says EDF's  Jean-Christophe Pilbe\u003cbr/\u003eNam Theun 2 only happened because of backing from the World Bank, and its president Robert Zoellick has come to see it for himself. The Bank has lent major technical support, given risk guarantees, and is now monitoring the progress of the mitigation programmes. \u003cbr/\u003eZoellick believes hydro-power, done right, has great potential as a green energy source and is considering backing further projects in Laos, using Nam Theun 2 as a model.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The idea of the Lao government is to become the 'battery' of South East Asia because they've got tremendous hydropower potential,\" he says, speaking the day after his site visit, \"so what we're trying to emphasise is, please take the model and the lessons. Let's have the follow-through but let's apply those to other projects and that is something we are still going to have to see and something we'll obviously press to see if we can support,\" Zoellick says.\u003cbr/\u003eBut critics vehemently oppose the idea that all's well on the Nakai plateau or downstream. \u003cbr/\u003eToo many issues are unresolved, they say; water quality, fish catches, encroachment by outsiders, but in particular the sustainability of the resettled communities. Their old way of life is gone, they say, and it isn't clear if they can adapt in the long-term to the new ways of earning a living, imposed on them by the developers. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The main objection is that the construction is completed already but the restoration of the livelihoods for the affected communities are just started and there still is no guarantee for the affected people to ensure the sustainable livelihood for the future.  And that is the main objection we have - there is no guarantee,\" says Ikuko Matsumoto, Lao Programme Director for International Rivers, an NGO that's long campaigned against Nam Theun 2.\u003cbr/\u003eThe World Bank's Laos team leader acknowledges there have been problems but says the critics are jumping the gun; the process is still ongoing.\u003cbr/\u003e\"With respect to some of the criticisms, it's important to keep them in a context which is that we are engaged in a medium-term process, rebuilding the lives of resettlers at the moment, and not everything goes according to plan. I think what's key is that each activity that needs to be changed, because as it was implemented it became clear that it was not meeting the needs of the community concerned, then we need to change it . And we need to recalibrate it so it does meet the objectives that we are aiming for here, which is to leave everybody better off,\" World Bank Team Leader William Rex says.\u003cbr/\u003eThere's no doubt this flooded plateau has delivered economic success for Laos. 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