PM insists worries about dam overblown

10 July 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Development policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Protected areas / Protected forest / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
Central Cardamoms / conservationists / dam / environmental destruction / flood / illegal logging / investigate / Koh Kong Province / protected forest / protestations / reservoir / Son Chhay / Southern Cardamoms / Stung Cheay Areng dam / Stung Tatai dam reservoir / the premier

In February, Son Chhay wrote to the premier urging him to investigate illegal logging outside the legal clearing area slated for the Stung Tatai dam reservoir in Koh Kong province and the environmental destruction that would be wrought by the Stung Cheay Areng dam. … In a reply dated June 11, the premier signalled the dam, which would flood thousands of hectares of protected forest in the Central and Southern Cardamoms, will go ahead despite the protestations from Son Chhay and conservationists. …

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