Members of local communities have voiced concerns that this project will negatively impact their livelihoods and that they will need to be resettled.

The Sambor dam is a proposed hydropower project on the mainstream of the Mekong River in Kratie province, Cambodia. Members of local communities have voiced concerns that this project will negatively impact their livelihoods and that they will need to be resettled. A 2008 feasibility study for a 3,300 megawatt project design estimated that 19,000 people would be displaced. The Mekong River Commission’s 2010 Strategic Environmental Assessment of mainstream Mekong dams placed the number even higher. China Guodian Corporation and Natural Heritage Institute were subsequently contracted to carry out feasibility studies for smaller designs of the dam.