NGOs Send Letters to Prime Ministers to Halt Dam Project
Two environmental organizations sent letters to Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday appealing for them to halt the planned construction of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Stung Treng province. The Sesan 2, a Vietnamese-funded hydropower project, will cause devastating and irreversible impacts on fisheries, biodiversity and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people upstream and downstream of the dam, an international group of researchers said in a statement released last month. …
