NGOs Send Letters to Prime Ministers to Halt Dam Project

3 April 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agriculture and fishing / Energy / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production
biodiversity / dam / fisheries / Hun Sen / hydropower project / Nguyen Tan Dung / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Stung Treng Province / Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung / Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung

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. …