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Villagers Petition Against Dam

14 February 2013
Radio Free Asia
Development policy and administration / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Law and judiciary / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
ancestors / ancestral graves / Cambodia / Chhit Sam Ath / Chinese owners / compensation / construction / Development / draft law / Electricity / Environmental assessment studies / ethnic minority villagers / farms / food security / graveyards / houses / Hydroelectric Dam / International Rivers / Lawmakers / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam / Minister of Mines Industry and Energy / National Assembly / NGO Forum / parliament / power company / project developers / protected forest areas / rare fish / rivers / Sesan district / social impacts / Southeast Asia / Srekor commune / Strung Treng province / Suy Sem

Ethnic minority villagers expecting to be displaced by a proposed Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia are asking the country’s parliament not to approve a law providing financial guarantees for the project. Villagers living along three rivers that will be affected by the dam spoke ...

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-02142013163955.html

Groups slam ministers' failure to discuss Xayaburi Dam

17 January 2013
The Nation
Development policy and administration / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
1995 Mekong Agreement / annual ministerial meeting / Cambodia / Centre for Social Research and Development / Ch.Karnchang / Chhith Sam Ath / Chiang Khong Conservation Group / conservationists / construction / Council Meeting / food security / hydropower project / International Donors / international law / International Rivers / Laos / Livelihoods / Luang Prabang / Mekong river / Mekong River Commission (MRC) / NGO Forum / social impacts / the US government / Vientiane / Vietnam Rivers Network / Xayaburi dam

Regional conservationists criticised the Mekong River Commission (MRC) yesterday for leaving the controversial Xayaburi Dam off its agenda at this week’s annual ministerial meeting in Luang Prabang, Laos. Laotian authorities said they would confirm their decision to go ahead with the hydropower project in the mainstream ...

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/aec/Groups-slam-ministers-failure-to-discuss-Xayaburi--30198036.html

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Villagers Petition Against Dam

Groups slam ministers' failure to discuss Xayaburi Dam

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