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Work underway on 'catastrophic' Cambodian dam

10 May 2013
DW
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
3S network / 3S rivers / Ame Trandem / Ame Trandem program director International Rivers / Electricity / electricity grid / electricity shortages / Eric Baran / Fish / fish yields / fisheries / food security / hydroelectric dams / Hydropower dams / Hyrdopower / Infrastructure / International Rivers / irrigation / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Se San 2 Dam / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong river / migratory fish / Mine and Energy Suy Sem / Minister of Industry / national electricity grid / PANAS / PANAS Report / relocation sites / Se Kong River / Se San River / sediment flows / Sesan river / Srekor / Srekor village / Srepok River / Suy Sem / tributary dams / tributary rivers / UN Millennium Development Goals / US journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton / WorldFish / WorldFish senior researcher Eric Baran

Srekor village has stood on the banks of the Se San River in northeastern Cambodia for generations. In a few years it will be gone, submerged along with more than 300 square kilometres of surrounding farmland and forest. For 37-year-old rice farmer Pa Tou, the ...

http://www.dw.de/work-underway-on-catastrophic-cambodian-dam/a-16803423

CPP Promises Oversight on Royal Group's Dam

20 February 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production
Cheam Yeap / Chinese aid / compensation / CPP lawmaker / dam project / EIA / environmental groups / environmental impact assessment / Hydrolancang International Energy Co Ltd / hydropower / Infrastructure / Kbal Romeas / Kith Meng / Lower Sesan 2 dam / National Assembly / Opposition party / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Royal Group / Sesan rivers / Srekor / Srepok / Stung Treng Province

The government has promised to monitor the progress of local conglomerate Royal Group in its implementation of a $781 million dam project in Stung Treng province, that has been guaranteed by the government, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said yesterday. Mr. Yeap said yesterday that the ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com

Draft Law for Lower Sesan Dam Details Plans for Compensation

6 February 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Energy / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Law and judiciary / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
Chinese aid / compensation / dam project / draft law / Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) / Electricity / Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) / Farmland / Hydrolancang International Energy Co Ltd / Kbal Romeas commune / Kith Meng / local community / Lower Sesan 2 dam / National Assembly / NGO Forum / Phluk commune / Prime Minister Hun Sen / resettlement costs / Royal Group / Srekor / Stung Treng Province / villagers

A draft law on the financing of a controversial dam project in Stung Treng province obtained yesterday shows that about $38 million will be spent on the resettlement of almost 800 families. This marks a significant decrease from the more than 1,000 families the companies ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com

Prayer Ceremony Held In Attempt to Stop Dam Construction

29 February 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Energy / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Generation and distribution facilities / Human rights / Hydropower dams / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Renewable energy production / Social development
Indigenous / Kbal Romeas / Lao / Lower Sesan / Lower Sesan 2 / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Phluk / prayer / Ratanakiri / sesan / Srekor / Stung Treng / Vietnam Electricity

About 400 indigenous Lao villagers prayed and sacrificed chickens to a powerful local spirit yesterday in Stung Treng province, seeking supernatural help in halting the planned construction of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam, villagers and commune officials said yesterday. The hydropower projects, funded by Vietnam ...

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Work underway on 'catastrophic' Cambodian dam

CPP Promises Oversight on Royal Group's Dam

Draft Law for Lower Sesan Dam Details Plans for Compensation

Prayer Ceremony Held In Attempt to Stop Dam Construction

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