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Wah Seong inks power deal with Cambodia

Wah Seong Corp Bhd’s indirect subsidiary P.M.T.I Energy (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreement with Cambodia’s Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc to sell up to 3.5 megawatt (MW) per hour of any and all electric energy generated and available for sale. ...

The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1262066

Environmentalists skeptical ahead of Laos meeting on hydropower dam

The four-nation Mekong River Commission (MRC) this week holds public consultations on the development of a large hydropower dam in southern Laos. The project is one of a series of planned dams in the Mekong River Basin that environmentalists say could harm an ecosystem critical ...

Ron Corben
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia/environmentalists-skeptical-ahead-laos-meeting-hydropower-dam

Cambodian fishermen urge better studies on Lao dam

As Cambodia prepares for a regional meeting over a contentious Lao dam on the Mekong River, fishing communities in Stung Treng province have appealed to Laos to cancel the project. The Don Sahong dam would be built on the Mekong, two kilometers from the Cambodian border. ...

Say Mony
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-fishermen-don-sahong-dam-mekong-river/2550700.html

Wah Seong subsidiary inks deal to sell green power in Cambodia

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s strategy to develop a portfolio of renewable energy and power plants in the region is taking off after it inked an agreement with Cambodia. The company said on Monday its indirect subsidiary had signed a power purchase agreement with Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc ...

The Star News Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2014/12/08/Wah-Seong-inks-deal-to-sell-green-power-in-Cambodia/?style=biz

Major meeting over contentious Laos dam scheduled

The Vientiane-based Mekong River Commission will hold a regional public consultation on a controversial dam project in Laos later this month. The Don Sahong dam discussion will allow civil society and other relevant stakeholders to voice their concerns over the dam’s impacts, the commission said in ...

Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/major-meeting-over-contentious-laos-dam-scheduled/2545880.html

Vietnamese in Mekong Delta object to Lao dam on Cambodia border: report

Vietnamese living in the Mekong Delta have raised objections to a proposed Lao dam on the mainstream of the river next to Cambodia, Thanh Nien News reported. The report Monday said the objections followed a two-week survey in five delta provinces by the Hanoi-based Green Innovation ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/vietnamese-in-mekong-delta-object-to-lao-dam-on-cambodia-border:-report-7765

Public consultation set for Lao dam on Cambodian border

The Mekong River Commission has announced plans for a regional public consultation next month on the Don Sahong Hydropower Project on the the border with Cambodia. “The regional public consultation will provide an additional forum for civil society, non-governmental organisations, research institutes, governmental organisations and regional ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/public-consultation-set-for-lao-dam-on-cambodian-border-7738

CNRP lawmaker to visit site of proposed dam

Opposition CNRP lawmaker Pol Ham on Monday said he will visit the site of a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province on Monday with colleagues from his parliamentary commission before they quiz government officials about the controversial project later this month. If built, the 108-megawatt ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-to-visit-site-of-proposed-dam-72038/

Meeting suggests dam project moving ahead

Despite reports that Prime Minister Hun Sen recently offered assurances that construction of the controversial Stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam would not be allowed to begin in the near future, local officials are allegedly pushing forward with plans to relocate villagers. Multiple provincial, district and village ...

Alice Cuddy and May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-suggests-dam-project-moving-ahead

Dam opposition takes complaint to Malaysia

Six environmental organisations opposing Laos’ controversial Don Sahong hydropower dam yesterday took their complaints to a new level: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia. In a 23-page letter, the organisations from Cambodia, Thailand and the US collectively requested an investigation into the trans-boundary impacts of the ...

Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-opposition-takes-complaint-malaysia

Calls flow for dam to be canned

Ahead of a national consultation meeting about Laos’s Don Sahong hydropower dam later this week, communities that will be affected by the project have made their opinion clear: suspend the dam. ...

Phak Seangly and Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-flow-dam-be-canned

Villagers in the dark over dam relocation

Communities living close to the Lower Sesan II dam site in Stung Treng province have called on the government to publicly disclose what compensation they will receive. Logging continues as the area is cleared ahead of construction, but those who will be forced to leave their ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/villagers-dark-over-dam-relocation

Dam promises are ‘a facade’

With regional consultations on Laos’s Don Sahong dam expected to commence soon, the developers are violating pledges to postpone construction, which is being undertaken by a Chinese company associated with several controversial hydropower projects, the Post has learned ...

Daniel Pye and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-promises-are-%E2%80%98-facade%E2%80%99

Dam villagers demand titles

Fearing loss of land, about 150 farmers in Svay Rieng province yesterday marched to the provincial hall, filing a petition that demands land titles on their property. Many villagers in Svay Chrum district’s Chhoeuteal commune lost parts of their property in 2011, when a dam was ...

Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-villagers-demand-titles

Cambodia defends plan for Chhay Areng River hydroelectric dam development

Cambodia on Tuesday defended its plan to build the 108-megawatt Chhay Areng River hydropower plant in a jungle in southwestern Koh Kong province, saying the project would greatly contribute to developing the energy sector. “An initial study found that the project has a capacity of 108 ...

Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140930/cambodia-defends-plan-chhay-areng-river-hydroelectric-dam-de

Construction of controversial Areng dam to cost USD 400 mln

The construction of Koh Kong’s Cheay Areng hydrowpower dam will cost USD 400 million and be completed by 2020, said Energy Secretary of State Ith Prang Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference, he said the study of the dam and its impact on environment has been ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/construction-of-controversial-areng-dam-to-cost-usd-400-mln-7401

Energy Minister plays down Areng concerns

Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem has issued a letter to the National Assembly commission on the environment, offering assurances that the planned Stung Cheay Areng Hydropower Dam will meet high environmental and social standards. Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party member Te Chanmony on September ...

May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/energy-minister-plays-down-areng-concerns

Villagers refuse relocation

Villagers whose homes will be destroyed if the controversial Lower Sesan 2 Dam is built are to deliver today a letter to provincial authorities announcing that they refuse to be resettled. Meach Mean, coordinator of the 3S Rivers Protection Network, said the villagers, who hail from ...

Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-refuse-relocation

City route goes solar

Two solar-powered buses will soon be put to the test on Phnom Penh’s bus line 1, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said yesterday. The test buses will operate from 6am to 6pm, saving enough energy to run more than four hours at nighttime along the route, ...

Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/city-route-goes-solar

Cambodia arrests 11 in China dam protest

Authorities in western Cambodia have detained 11 activists after they tried to stop further studies for a planned Chinese-built dam. About 30 local villagers and environmental activists in the Areng Valley went to the area Monday to protect barricades they had erected earlier this year to ...

Kimseng Men
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-arrests-11-in-china-dam-protest/2450828.html

Rice husks to pump energy to the grid

Malaysian company PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co has signed a 10-year deal to supply Electricite du Cambodge with 48,000 megawatts of energy derived from rice husks every year. Phou Puy, president of PMTI, told the Post yesterday that about 70 per cent of the power generated from ...

Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/rice-husks-pump-energy-grid

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