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Monday 23 April 2012

Dam threatens livelihood of Cambodia's poor

Dam on Mekong's tributary may force 5,000 people to relocate, but government says it will benefit people. 

Al Jazeera
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2012 
 
The Mekong River and its tributaries are Southeast Asia’s main waterway flowing through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
There are a number of dams built in the upper Mekong basin, including five in China, to generate electricity. But a second dam on river Sesan, a tributary of Mekong, is threatening the livelihood of people in Ratanakiri area of Cambodia.
Activists say the dam will flood more than 30,000 hectares of farmland, forcing around 5,000 people to relocate and severely affect fishermen across the Mekong basin.
The government says it has conducted all the relevant environmental surveys and believes the positive impacts outweigh the negative.
Al Jazeera’s Stephanie Scawen reports from Ratanakiri.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's right! Steung Traeng is our first province where Mekong
is flowing through,why I always think that Kratie is the first
one instead!!
Too much Rumduol Kratie in my mind perhaps. No Khmer
song about Steung Traeng yet?! May be I should write one to
give this province justice!.
About the dam,if the government press ahead with it,it needs to
take care of the displaced people first. They are not the prime
beneficiary of this project anyway why give them so much
hardships? No threats,no forces against them please.