Trees being cleared for Sesan dam
As many as 40 workers are cutting down trees, marking other trees they plan to fell in protected forest areas and piling up luxury timber in a flood-safety zone in Stung Treng’s Srekor commune, a local official said yesterday. Commune chief Seak Mekong said the workers – from Kratie – had arrived on Sunday and were liberally cutting trees some distance from where the reservoir for the $781 million, 400-megawatt Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam will be built. “On Sunday, the company sent 40 workers to cut the Thnuong trees in the Sesan II hydropower area under the premise of making way for a road and clearing pollution from the reservoir area,” he said. …
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