Nearly one hundred Penan families have been relocated to a “modern” village to make way for a hydroelectric dam project in Sarawak, Malaysia. Read more from Free Malaysia Today Read more about hydroelectric dams in Sarawak then join the conversation on Facebook Native communities affected by the Murum hydroelectric project...
The expansion of dams in Sarawak, Malaysia is costly to the indigenous people they will affect as well as the environment. But to avoid addressing these social and environmental concerns, Sarawak’s leader has resorted to his well-polished tactics of corruption and personal control, with the support from industry and without...
The International Hydropower Association (IHA), an industry group that claims to advocate the sustainable use of hydropower, has been urged to cancel its annual conference planned to be held in Kuching, Malaysia, in May 2013. The conference is hosted by Sarawak Energy, a public company controlled by Abdul Taib Mahmud,...
On the International Action Day for Rivers on March 14th, environmental activists from Switzerland and Malaysia gathered in front of the UN seat at Geneva’s Place des Nations to protest plans for twelve hydroelectrical dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo. The Malaysian dams will cause the forced...
