In this Oct. 6, 2012 photo, local workers adjust stones at a dam construction site by China National Heavy Machinery Corporation at an upstream of Tatay, in Koh Kong province, some 210 kilometers (130 miles) west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Up a sweeping, jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter-(330-foot-) high dam over the protests of villagers and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame the Tatay and other rivers of Koh Kong province, one of Southeast Asia’s last great wilderness areas. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Cambodia’s Chinese dam conundrum

by East Asia Forum

In June 2018, a leaked environmental impact assessment report on the proposed Sambor Hydropower Dam project in Cambodia revealed that constructing a dam at the proposed site could ‘literally kill the [Mekong] River’.

Read the full story: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/08/15/cambodias-chinese-dam-conundrum/

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