Honduras: Government Failing To Provide Residents Compensation For Dam Construction

Honduras: Government Failing To Provide Residents Compensation For Dam Construction The Honduras National Electric Energy Company (ENEE) has suspended payments to small farmers in the department of Olancho for lands acquired from them by the Honduran government to allow for construction of the Patuca III hydroelectric project along the Patuca River. The dam, which has been under construction since February 2011, is being built by China's Sinohydro Corporation, but ENEE stopped making...

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