Ministry plans Xayaburi trip
Cambodia has been asked to send a delegation to the site of the proposed Xayaburi hydro-electric dam in northern Laos, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor said yesterday. Kean Hor, who is also chairman of Cambodia’s National Mekong Committee, said the equivalent body in Thailand had urged the Kingdom to inspect development at the site. … Cambodia has already voiced its opposition to the controversial US$3.8 billion, 1,285-megawatt hydroelectric dam, which in theory is on hold, but which environmental groups say is already being built. … Cambodia and Vietnam announced in early July they would write a joint letter to the Lao and Thai governments urging that construction of the dam be halted, until the potential trans-boundary impacts of the dam on Mekong communities are studied.
