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Sesan Dam Law Approved

18 February 2013
Radio Free Asia
Civil society / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Generation and distribution facilities / Human rights / Hydropower dams / Land / Law and judiciary / Protected areas / Protected forest / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
Cambodia’s parliament / civil society groups / compensation / CPP / ecological and social impacts / Electricity / environment costs / environmental destruction / Environmental group / ethnic minority / fisheries / food security / HRP / Human Rights Party / hydropower dam / International Rivers / joint Reservoir / kratie / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong / Mines and Energy / Minister of Industry / National Assembly / northeastern Cambodia / power company / protected forest / Sam Rainsy Party / Son Chhay / Srepok rivers / SRP / Stung Treng / Suy Sem

Cambodia’s parliament on Friday approved a law providing financial guarantees for the developers of a planned hydropower dam on a Mekong River tributary, despite opposition from civil society groups seeking to delay the project. Villagers campaigning against the Lower Sesan 2 dam in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung ...

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/sesan-02152013182113.html

Villagers Petition Against Dam

14 February 2013
Radio Free Asia
Development policy and administration / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Law and judiciary / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
ancestors / ancestral graves / Cambodia / Chhit Sam Ath / Chinese owners / compensation / construction / Development / draft law / Electricity / Environmental assessment studies / ethnic minority villagers / farms / food security / graveyards / houses / Hydroelectric Dam / International Rivers / Lawmakers / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam / Minister of Mines Industry and Energy / National Assembly / NGO Forum / parliament / power company / project developers / protected forest areas / rare fish / rivers / Sesan district / social impacts / Southeast Asia / Srekor commune / Strung Treng province / Suy Sem

Ethnic minority villagers expecting to be displaced by a proposed Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia are asking the country’s parliament not to approve a law providing financial guarantees for the project. Villagers living along three rivers that will be affected by the dam spoke ...

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-02142013163955.html

State Utility Staff May Be Registered To Vote Twice

30 May 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Securities exchange (stock market) / Stock market
Commune Elections / CPP / EdC / Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) / Employees / government employees / Opposition party / power company / press conference / SRP / SRP lawmaker Yim Sovann / staff member / State Utility Staff / vote / Vote Twice / Yim Sovann

The SRP yesterday said it had found that more than 90 employees of state-owned power company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) were registered to vote in two separate places for Sunday’s commune elections and warned that the ruling CPP may use such government employees to vote ...

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