Swiss NGO slams plans for 50 new dams in Sarawak

 Posted by on 22 November 2012  3 Responses »
Nov 222012
 

Sarawak’s indigenous people may have to pay the price for a US$105bn industrialisation scheme. A new report exposes the Sarawak government’s excessive hydropower plans. Bruno Manser Fund is calling for a moratorium on all dam construction after Bakun and for the withdrawal of foreign consultants from socially and environmentally damaging hydropower plans. Continue reading »

Stunning incompetence

 Posted by on 28 March 2008  No Responses »
Mar 282008
 

If we thought that
dealing an electoral blow to the Umno-led BN would serve as a wake-up
call, we’d better think again. Far from learning
anything from the rebuke, the new cabinet is proof that not one thing
has got in those thick skulls, observes Tingang.

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