It is simply unbelievable!!! I mean, pray tell me, for how long can the PHPA Project people hope to continue to feed the Bhutanese people their cock and bull story about being able to stabilize a whole mountain with mortar and grout?
The absurdity of it all is so incredible that you begin to wonder – what really is happening here? What are the Bhutanese people not understanding that the Project people are so cock sure about?
When the first slide on the right bank of P-I dam site occurred during July of 2013, it became clear to me that the location of the dam and, therefore, the project itself, was unsafe and doomed to failure. Thereafter, year after year, I have been calling for its shutting down. Alas, today, 17 years since the project construction began in 2008, and after the project cost has escalated to close to a staggering Nu.88 billion from its initial budgetary allocation of Nu.35 billion, the project remains stalled – ten years beyond its planned date of completion slated for 2016!!!
Can it be that we are so naïve that we got the stick by its wrong end?
What is the possibility that the Punatsangchu-I Hydro Power Project will be considered a SUCCESS if, and only when, it FAILS and causes untold losses to life and property?
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