9 December 2011
Government authorities in Shan state have begun a compensation scheme for
locals forced off their land to make way for the highly lucrative, albeit controversial,
trans-Burma Shwe gas pipeline that will cut through the state before entering China.
Up to 86 households in villages close to Namkham township near the China border
have received the first batch of payments, according to the Shan Herald Agency for
News, which reported that one acre of confiscated farmland near to the town could
earn as much as $US18,500 in compensation. The figure appears an usually healthy
one for Burma, but the cost for a number of closed factories and a severance package
for redundant workers may be included.
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