Corporate Activities

The Xayaburi Hydroelectric Power Plant in association with the Company contributed survival kits together with essential necessities, including rice, ready-made food, drinking water, medicine, and blankets, to the villagers of Muang Nan in the Lao PDR, which was affected by heavy rainfall and floods which inundated 358 households in early August 2019. In this connection, the Company investigated the sustainable flood solutions by sending a team of civil and geological engineers, including environmental consultants to survey the area together with the Lao government officials after the flood. In order to check the condition of the area and find out the cause of the problems of flash flood and run-off; formulate measures by using engineering knowledge, skills and technique; assess and propose measures to prevent impacts from floods, in order to serve as guidelines to lessen a chance of flash flood, as well as minimizing impacts from floods, flash floods in the future; focusing on problem solution and reduction with sustainability, reduction of budget expenditure of the GOL for rehabilitation and restoration after flooding in Muang Nan, Luang Prabang, with its administrative district covering the left-side area of the Mekong River which is 40 kilometers north of the Xayaburi Hydroelectric Power Plant, it is then regarded as a “next-door neighbor” of the Xayaburi Hydroelectric Power Plant.