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Laos to build Don Sahong dam (thanks to Chinese help)
The Laotian government officially announces the construction of the dam. Once completed, it will likely affect the lives of at least 60 million people, damaging crops and ecosys...
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Regulatory Shortcomings Open the Way to More Dams on the Mekong
Plans for more dams along the Mekong are causing concern among environmentalists and pressure groups. But the body tasked with overseeing such projects has limited powers to imp...
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Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for the Xe Kong Basin Lao PDR
The Master Plan was developed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) and a team of international experts in full collaboration with the Government of Lao PDR (GoL). The purpos...
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National sector review 2003: Hydropower
Cambodia is one of the south-east Asian countries that is rich in water resources. According to the latest preliminary study, the total hydropower potential of the country is es...
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Exec Summary - Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector
မှနြှာန ိုငငြံ ရအောားလွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပရြေားကဏျဍသညြ ှှံှေ့ပှ ှုားရေားအရကာငအြထညရြှာြှှု ကနဦားအဆငြ့တြှငသြာ ရှ ရန ရသားသညြ့အြတှကြ လွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပြှှုက ို ပတဝြနြားက ငြ နှငြ့ြ လူှှုရော...
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Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong
The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...
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Announcement No. 01 on the results of the Cambodian Cabinet Meeting on 05 April 2019
The government has approved SPHP (Cambodia) to invest in a new hydroelectric dam in Pursat river with capacity of 80-megawatt and built under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basi...
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Launching Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam
The article, from the Office of the Council of Ministers, is about the Prime Minister of Cambodia launching the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam.
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Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos
The collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam project in Southern Laos in July 2018 directed a great deal of public attention to the risks and dangers associated wit...
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Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most si...
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Dodgy deal: Lower Sesan 2 dam project
Located on the Sesan River, just below the confluence of the Srepok River in Cambodia's Stung Treng Province Province, the large 420MW, $816 million Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam...
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Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement (PNPCA)
This publication describes the Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement (PNPCA) undertaken by MRC member countries for certain projects related to water use...
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Hydro CDM hall of shame
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is meant to catalyze climate-friendly and sustainable projects in low-income countries. In Cambodia, despite a lack of sufficient consultat...
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Final presentation of Cambodia Prek Liang I-II hydropower projects
This screen shot demonstrates the final presentation about the hydropower dam project which will be developed at Prek Liang and surrounding areas, about 400 Km away from Phnom P...
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Environmental and social impact assessment: Kamchay hydroelectric project in Kampot province
The Shinohydro is one of the leading company to utilize the water for producing electricity that has 10 subsidiaries and 70 network companies. The company invests in constructio...
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All Hydropower Potential Must be Developed: Energy Official.
This media article argues presents the Laos PDR governments stance on hydropower projects in Laos. It cites government representatives' discussion about why Laos' hydpropower pr...
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Power Surge: The Impacts of Rapid Dam Development in Laos - An International Rivers Report
This report presents the challenges that hydropower development poses to rural livelihoods and fragile ecosystems, and details the specific impacts caused by Lao dam projects. I...
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The people and their river, the World Bank and its Dam: Revisiting the Xe bang fai river in Laos
According to the World Bank, ‘[NT2] demonstrates that hydro power projects can be designed and implemented to deliver sustainable outcomes through state-of-the-art environment...
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Rescaling and Reordering Nature–Society Relations: The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Dam and Laos–Thailand Electricity Networks 2015
This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systemat...
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Tools for policy dissemination
Disseminate policy details by using posters or pamphlets; Formed and trained Village Grievance Redress Committee(part of policy dissemination activity), 4 members per village.