PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Cambodia’s leader said Thursday that the country will not build dams on the Mekong River, after scrapping a USD1.5 billion coal project in a protected reserve. Cambodia has come under fire for allowing companies to clear hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest – including in protected areas – for everything […]
Cambodia has abandoned plans to build a $1.5 billion 700 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power project in a protected reserve along the southwestern coast and will build an 800 MW natural-gas fired plant instead, its energy minister told Reuters.
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As part of the project, Cambodia is exploring construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to import the super-chilled fuel and re-gasify it for use in the power plant, Energy Minister Keo Rottanak told Reuters.
Cambodia has abandoned
plans to build a $1.5 billion 700 megawatt coal-fired power
project in a protected reserve along the southwestern coast and
will build an 800 MW natural-gas fired plant. -November 29, 2023 at 12:33 am EST
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