KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak is embarking on a drastic social and economic change via an energy-intensive programme called the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE). The powerhouse of SCORE comprises at least twelve planned mega-dams which will displace tens of thousands of indigenous people. Baram dam alone will displace 20,000 natives,...
Dangerous protest. It takes guts to chain yourself to a saw mill conveyor belt! The Taib family’s Australian company, Ta Ann Tasmania, is fuming because protestors held up their saw mills for some hours on Monday, by chaining themselves to the conveyor belts. Ta Ann’s spokesperson claimed that the world should be...
LONG LAMA, BARAM – About 450 villagers made up of different ethnic groups from all over Baram gathered at the normally sleepy town of Long Lama on 29 October 2012 to demonstrate peacefully and show their displeasure towards some of their community leaders for supporting the proposed Baram Hydro Electric...
Sarawakians fighting against the 12 proposed mega-dams in the state will be joining environment activist, Wong Tack on a 14- day march from Kuantan to the parliament starting on November 13th. Philip Jau, chairperson of the Baram Protection Action Committee, is leading a 12 members team, including three women, from...
SAVE Rivers is against the proposal made by the Tokuyama Ltd. to have a scheduled waste treatment facility in Sarawak. The public has been misled in the beginning about the plans of Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy or SCORE: the name itself is deceiving because the industries proposed for SCORE...
MIRI, SARAWAK/MALAYSIA Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fund, has released one of Sarawak’s best-guarded secrets, a map of all the timber and plantation concessions in the northern part of Sarawak, a state on the island of Borneo that accounts for 25% of the world’s exports of tropical logs. The map...
LONDON: The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia. First Resources Ltd has submitted documents to the RSPO falsely claiming that its subsidiary PT Borneo Surya...
The Penans have been blockading against the construction of the 944MW Murum Dam since Sept 26, 2012. More than 1,600 Penans from eight Penan villages (including one Kenyah Badeng longhouse) are affected by the construction of the dam which is now about 70% completed. The Penan communities affected by the...
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: Over 120 participants representing 11 nations at the recently concluded Southeast Asia Renewable Energy People’s Assembly (SEAREPA) have unanimously decided to reject the development of 12 planned mega-dams in Sarawak. In their declaration, participants stressed that they had discussed renewable energy concerns across the region and were deeply concerned...
A proposed industrial area extension in East Kalimantan, Indonesia will likely mean the end of a population of rehabilitated orangutans who reside there, according to the Indonesian environmental group Peduli Teluk Balikpapan. Orangutans, as with other native wildlife that lives in the region, have increasingly smaller and smaller patches of...
