October 21, 2020
The first Myaing Kalay cement plant run by the military owned Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) was built in the 1980s1, with a capacity of 900 tonnes per day. A second much larger plant was completed in 2001 with a capacity of 4,000 tonnes per day. In early October 2019, 3 villages near the cement plant saw water sources (surface water and wells) changing colour, the death of fish and experienced health issues such as skin irritation and rashes when they took showers. This had never happened in the past. Please see the report for detail.
