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Koh Kong dam not on hold

According to Hun Sen, the dam will take up 9 per cent of the valley, and 91 per cent of the valley’s tree cover would be preserved.

But Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, founder of NGO Mother Nature, said that many of the claims were “beyond comical”.

The suggestion that just 9 per cent of the valley would be flooded, he said, was an “outright fallacy”.

“The valley measures around 20,500 hectares, and the reservoir plus sites would make use of way over 10,000 of those,” he explained.

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