Laos has safeguards to cut environmental and social impact of exporting power to S'pore: EMA

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concerns about the impacts of hydropower dams on biodiversity and the communities living around these structures, since their construction can affect the movement of fish.

Dams can also cause the release of methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide over shorter timescales.

Communities are displaced from their homes and denied access to lands, forests and rivers critical for their lives and livelihoods

The Republic in October 2021 announced plans to import around 30 per cent of its electricity from low-carbon sources, such as renewable energy plants, by 2035, to reduce the carbon footprint of its power sector. Currently, more than 95 per cent of Singapore's energy comes from burning natural gas, a fossil fuel.

Australian firm Sun Cable also has plans to send electricity to Singapore through subsea cables from a vast desert solar power station south of Darwin in the Northern Territory.