To remind that on 28th March 2015, the third committee of National Assembly leaded by H.E. Ham Pol, Chairperson of Commission on Planning, Investment, Agriculture, Rural Development, Environment, and Water Resources conduct a field visit of an investigation of the Lower Sesan hydropower dam project. About three hundred affected villagers from Srekor and other villages in Stung Treng and Ratanakiri Provinces attended a meeting with the National Assembly members and local authorities. However, we note our concern that there was only one hour and  Read more

Informal translation:   Community who will be affected by the LS2 dam project in Stung Treng accused the local authority (commune council, chief and village chief) threatened villagers on their banners stated “Dare to  die not to leave ” which villagers stood or post to protests to do not leave their homes. The authorities claim that their group work (officer) to educate or explain the people to participate voluntarily to provide data of their land and other property to company in order to solve the impact and compensate. The Read more

  14 March 2015 [SesanDistrict, Stung Treng Province, Northeastern Cambodia] On Saturday 14 March 2015, 140 ethnic Bunong community members from KbalRomeasVillage in Stung Treng Provinces, Northeastern Cambodia, who are affected by the Lower Sesan 2 (LS2) Hydropower Dam Project, celebrated the International Day of Action for Rivers.[1]They also voicedserious concerns over the LS2 project’s negative impacts on rivers and natural resources, on which their life and livelihoods depend. The villagers started the event by praying to the riv Read more

It should be reminded that on 25 November 2014, community representatives from the Lower Sesan 2 dam in Stung Treng and Ratanakiri province submitted the petition and requested letter for a meeting with President of the National Assembly of Cambodia, but so far they have not received any response yet. Yesterday, on 4th December 2014,   community representatives contacted to National Assembly of Cambodia by phone to monitor as well as inquiries want to know about the response of the Assembly to their letter, which they submitted on 25th Nov Read more

គួររំលឹកផងដែរថា កាលពីថ្ងៃទី២៥ ​ខែវិច្ឆិកា ឆ្នាំ២០១៤ តំណាងសហគមន៍មកពីតំបន់គម្រោងទំនប់វារីអគ្គិសនីសេសានក្រោម២ ក្នុងខេត្តស្ទឹងត្រែង និងរតនគិរី បានយកញ្ញត្តិ និងលិខិតស្នើរសុំជួប្រជុំពិភាក្សាជាមួ� Read more

  Community representatives will travel on Monday to Phnom Penh to submit the joint statement directly to ask H.E. Samdech Akeak Moha Ponhea Chakrei Heng Samrin, President of the National Assembly of Cambodia for the assembly’s intervention to immediately cancel the LS2 project at 9.00 am on Tuesday 25th November. After the submission, they will hold a press conference at NGO Forum Office in Phnom Penh at 11:00am to report to the public how the submission went and respond to the media’s questions and inquiries. On Sunday, 23rd Novemb Read more

 “We Refuse to be Resettled by the Lower Sesan 2 Dam” On 29th September 2014, the villager went to Stung Treng hall (Sala Khet) to submit an open statement to H.E. Mr. Kol Samol, Chairperson of the Committee for Solving the Impacts of the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam Project, announcing that they refuse to be resettled by the project. Unfortunately the H.E. Kol Samol, provincial governor was not at office and administration office of Stung Treng Hall cannot accept the statement and informed them to come again on 1st October. So they submi Read more

The Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam project (LS2) will be located on the Sesan River in Sesan District, Stung Treng Province, Cambodia, 1.5km downstream from its confluence with the Srepok River and 25km from where the two rivers meet the Mekong River mainstream. The developer is the Hydro Power Lower Sesan 2 Company, a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s Hydrolancang International Energy (90%) and EVN International Joint Stock Company (EVNI) (10%). The Company’s capital (30%) and an undisclosed bank loan (70%) is mo Read more

Over the past 16 years, the 3S communities have experienced negative impacts on a daily basis from hydropower dams built upstream in Vietnam on the Sesan and Srepok Rivers. This has included reductions in the number of fish available to feed our families, reduced water quality and changes to water flows, altering the quality of our farmland and water sources. Anticipation, the villagers will suffer many additional harmful effects from the Lower Sesan 2 (LS2) Hydropower Project. LS2 will be located on the Sesan River in Sesan District, St Read more

Refer to the weather situation Cambodia is suffering from a low pressure system from the South China Sea make a lot of rain in the Mekong River basin and causing floods in some provinces, especially in the northeast including Kratie, Stung Treng and Ratanakiri         province. In particular, for Rattanakiri province from 15th -24th September 2013, the water level in both rivers Sesan and Srepok are get up immediately cause of the heavy rain around the area and after that, we got a notice from Vietnam, that Vietnam will released wate Read more

Press Release -30 August 2012 For Immediate Release [Banlung, Ratanakiri, Cambodia] The 3S Rivers Protection Network and International Rivers have launched a report that assesses the various actors operating in the Sesan, Srepok, and Sekong (3S) Rivers Basin with a stake in the development of hydropower and the threat that the scramble to exploit the area’s water resources poses to the region and its people. 3S Rivers Under Threat: Understanding New Threats and Challenges from Hydropower Development to Biodiversity and Community Righ Read more

“លុបចោល​គម្រោង​ទំនប់វារីអគ្គិសនីសេសានក្រោ២ ជាបន្ទាន់”   នៅថ្ងៃច័ន្ទតំណាងសហគមន៍នឹងធ្វើដំណើរទៅទីក្រុងភ្នំពេញដើម្បីយកញ្ញត្តិរបស់ខ្លួន​ទៅ​ដាក់ជូន​រដ្ឋសភា ស្នើរសុំដល់ សម្តេចអគ្គមហាពញាចក្រី � Read more

In the collaboration between the 3SPN and Mekong Watch has established a fact sheet of Lower Sesan II dam project in northeastern part of Cambodia in the aim to bring public attention on large development plan that would have huge negative social and environmental impacts.  (more...) Read more