When the Complexity of the Large-Scale Development Project Becomes a Roadblock to Access to Justice

• Autores: Pillkyu Hwang, Yae Ahn Park
• Localización: Business and Human Rights Journal, ISSN 2057-0198, ISSN-e 2057-0201, Vol. 6, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 592-598
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 23 July 2018, when the villagers gathered around the porch to wrap up the day with a good chat, one of the five auxiliary dams of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower dam in Attapeu province, the southeastern state of Laos, collapsed. Four days before the collapse, reports of cracks and subsidence started to come through. It should have been enough to prompt evacuation warning issuance by the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Co. Ltd (PNPC), a consortium of South Korean companies SK Engineering and Construction (SK E&C) and Korea Western Power Company (KOWEPO), Thailand-based RATCH Group, and Lao Holding State Enterprise (LHSE). PNPC has a Concession Agreement with the Laos government ‘to plan, design, finance, construct, own, operate and maintain’ the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower dam. The warning was issued, but it came too late.