City Hall blocks bike ride against hydro-project

18 August 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Constitution and rights / Energy / Government / Hydropower dams / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Provincial and local governments / Renewable energy production / Social development
Alex Gonzalez-Davidson / Law on Peaceful Assembly / Long Dimanche / Mother Nature / Phnom Penh City Hall

Phnom Penh security forces on Sunday blocked activists from riding their bicycles around the city to promote their campaign against the pending construction of a hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, claiming the organizers failed to ask City Hall for permission. The NGO Mother Nature has been campaigning on behalf of an ethnic minority Chong community in Koh Kong that wants the government to cancel its plans for the 108-MW Stung Areng dam. The project will force hundreds of them to relocate and flood much of their ancestral homeland along with forests that are home to some endangered species. …

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