Vietnam invests in Cambodia for hydro-power study 12/10/2009
VOV News
The Urban and Industrial Investment and Development Corporation (IDICO) of Vietnam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a feasibility study to build a 980 MW hydro-electric power project in Cambodia.
Under the MoU, signed in Phnom Penh on December 9, the project will be located in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Stung Treng close to the Vietnamese border. The area is expected to generate some 3.76 billion kWh per year.
The investor group includes the Song Da Corporation, the Vietnam Machinery Assembly Corporation (LILAMA), the Construction Corporation I (CCI), the Infrastructural Construction and Development Corporation (LICOGI) and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV).
The IDICO said its intensive surveys in Cambodia since 2006 have shown that provinces bordering Vietnam possess great potential for hydro electricity, estimated at 5,000 MW. The Mekong River stretch running across the Stung Treng province has the greatest potential, said an IDICO representative.
Under the MoU, signed in Phnom Penh on December 9, the project will be located in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Stung Treng close to the Vietnamese border. The area is expected to generate some 3.76 billion kWh per year.
The investor group includes the Song Da Corporation, the Vietnam Machinery Assembly Corporation (LILAMA), the Construction Corporation I (CCI), the Infrastructural Construction and Development Corporation (LICOGI) and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV).
The IDICO said its intensive surveys in Cambodia since 2006 have shown that provinces bordering Vietnam possess great potential for hydro electricity, estimated at 5,000 MW. The Mekong River stretch running across the Stung Treng province has the greatest potential, said an IDICO representative.
8 comments:
I wonder where the affordable electricity will go to? Obviously not to Cambodians.. Thank you Cambodians for selling out your resources to other countries for a quick buck.
Where does the electricity goes with all these hydro Dam project.
During my stay in Cambodia, outside of Phnom Penh, people are still using battery to light for their house for a maximum of 2 hours.
But the main power supply where did it go?
I don't need any more Vietcong in my country.
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980 Megawatt of electricity from that dam? That must be a dam on the mighty Mekong itself. By the time Khmers realize the consequences of this dam, it will be too late. The dam will first give a lot of pride, but it will affect agriculture and fisheries along the Mekong trememdously for generations, including Vietnam's delta itself.
Power from this dam will feed Vietnam's needs through their existing transmission grids and feed back to Cambodia through the newly built grids from Vietnam to Phnom Penh through Kampot province, at a higher cost. Life along the Mekong and up to the Tole Sap areas will never be the same after the dam is built, if it is built on the Mekong.
Dam kandoumere ah Kwack!
5:01 PM
Sorry it's already way too late ... Cambodian Prime Minster Hun Sen is already in deep water,which means one wrong move he makes, he'll be done. No wonder he has all his nieces and nephews all over the United States, because he does not know when the Yuons decide to expire him. It could be at any moment: days, months, years--yes, the Yuons have the time frame, and the scope of the infiltration in Cambodia by the Yuons is colossal--simply unimaginable.
May God bless Cambodia and its people.
CPP Traitor
No one can save Cambodia because its people can't compete with its neighbors.
Cambodia will be slowly turned into another KKR in the next 30 years by Vietnam.
This will be a feasibilty study to see whether the construction will bring more benefits than losses. Other wise the Cambodian Government will not build it! During the study there will be alot of aspects to look carefully! including Public consultations as well!
The Mekong River Commission will follow up closely as well.
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