Environment and natural resources

Environment and natural resources policy and administration

Villagers Appeal to Halt Stung Treng Dam

1 March 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agriculture and fishing / Civil society / Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Forests and forestry / Generation and distribution facilities / Human rights / Hydropower dams / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Renewable energy production / Social development
Ratanakiri / sesan / Stung Treng / Vietnam Electricity

Eleven village representatives from Stung Treng and Ratanakiri provinces traveled to Phnom Penh yesterday to meet with National Assembly lawmakers and appeal for an end to the planned construction of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam. The hydropower project, funded by Vietnam Electricity, will flood tens ...

Law drafted to enforce environmental reports

13 January 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Environment and natural resources / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Environmental impact assessments / Land / Land policy and administration / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Public land lease
Development / draft EIA law / EIA / energy / environmental impact assessments / environmentalism / mining / Ministry of Environment / natural resources

The Ministry of Environment has drafted a law that will hand out fines and prison terms for companies that fail to complete and submit Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) on the development projects they undertake. According to a copy of the EIA draft law, fines of 100 ...

Rare giant ibis loses habitat

The latest in a series of land concessions granted in protected forests has cut nearly 10,000 hectares from Cambodia’s largest wildlife sanctuary – home to the Kingdom’s critically endangered national bird, the Giant Ibis. A September 7 sub-decree, released on Monday evening, reclassified 9,237 hectares of ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101252091/National-news/rare-giant-ibis-loses-habitat.html

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