Cambodia should scrap some hydropower dams as alternative energy sources, such as solar power, are becoming cheaper, a U.S. think-tank said.
An international NGO said Laos' Don Sahong dam would block and threaten “vital subsistence and commercial fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin.”
Last week, the group circulated Taiwanese trade figures that showed imports of silica sand dwarfed Cambodia’s recorded exports by $30 million.
The signing came three years after KrisEnergy bought up the Chevron company’s shares in the field.
The Bunong and Lao people place spiritual significance on the forests and ancestral burial grounds which will be flooded when the dam goes online.
According to the Ministry of Rural Development, more than 630,000 wells have been drilled across the country.
California has emerged from five years of drought and is turning its attention to underground aquifers, which have been depleted in many farming areas. VOA Khmer's Ten Soksreinith narrates.
More than 4,000 families have already relocated to make way for the floodwaters, most from the ethnic Bunong and Kuy minorities.
Just south of Aleppo there was once a research center where Syria's agricultural heritage was preserved with a view to helping feed the world. VOA Khmer's Chhim Sumedh narrates.
The illegal ivory trade has decimated elephant populations across parts of Africa. This week, delegates and activists from across the world are gathering in Geneva for a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species – known as CITES.
The dam is scheduled to be tested on Saturday and is reportedly flooding an area where villagers have refused to leave.
Laos is preparing to build a new dam on the Mekong, the Pak Beng, which research suggests will have significant negative impacts downstream.
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