Unesco queries dam plan in Sarawak

VittoVictorio · Post time 23-7-2008 12:09 PM

Unesco queries dam plan in Sarawak
Posted by Sarawak's 12 new dams alarm environmentalists on July 05, 2008 at 10:17:16: Saturday, July 05, 2008
Unesco queries dam plan in Sarawak
Tony Thien
Jul 5, 08 3:35pm
Malaysiakini The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has stepped in to seek clarification from Malaysian authorities concerning a controversiol dam project in Sarawak said to affect a world heritage site. The Unesco World Heritage Centre had on June 25 wanted the Malaysian authorities 憈o clarify the situation and provide us with any further information on the hydropower plans at Gunung Mulu National Park World Heritage site, a spokesman of the Paris-based UN organisation confirmed to the Switzerland-based Bruno-Manser Fund (BMF). BMF stated this in an email to Malaysiakini today. A leaked confidential document, which was made public by the BMF, has recently shown Sarawak Energy Berhad抯 (SEB) plan to realize a 220 MW dam on Sarawak抯 Tutoh river. The proposed dam would submerge parts of the Gunung Mulu National Park that is one of only two Unesco World Heritage sites in Malaysia. The proposed Tutoh dam is part of SEB抯 controversiol scheme to realize twelve new hydropower projects in Sarawak from 2008 to 2020. If these plans were to be realized, several thousand natives would lose their traditional lands in the Bornean rainforest and would have to be relocated. While Sarawak抯 energy consumption amounted to 1120 MW in 2005, the new projects have a power generation capacity of 7000 MW. Sarawak, Malaysia抯 largest state located on the northern coast of Borneo, is criss-crossed by rivers, and the Sarawak government has announced plans to harness its hydro-power potentials, a move that has been accelerated because of rising fuel costs and the global demand for clean air and environment. Bakun's unresolved problems Like the existing Batang Ai and Bakun Dams, it is also feared that the new dam will also lead to the displacement of many natives from their traditional lands. Even the yet-to-the-completed 2400 MW Bakun Dam is facing many long-standing and unresolved problems following the resettlement of about 10,000 natives as they complain of lack of amenities and lack of suitable land for cultivation and loss of income from traditional sources. Sime Darby, a major player in the development of the hydro dam project, has announced it is pulling out and this has threatened to delay the start of the construction of the undersea cable from Sarawak to Peninsular Malaysia to bring the excess power from Bakan and future dams to the mainland. Tenaga Nasional Bhd chairperson Leo Moggie, commenting on this, told Malaysiakini in Miri recently that the government would have to find a new company to take over from Sime Darby. Up to now, he had no idea who that would be. Without the undersea cable link, it would be meaningless to embark on the development of so many hydro dams in Sarawak as it is unlikely that Sarawak could find energy-intensive industries within a short period of time to take up all the available energy, after the start of the proposed smelter plants in Bintulu. 揑t does look things may slow down a little,

Muntz · Post time 24-7-2008 12:22 AM

Wow... kontroversi...

Baiduri Othman · Post time 24-7-2008 07:26 AM

Ada dlm Berita TV. Sik silap, dolok ada keluar vacancies di Bakun. Somewhere in 2004 kedak ya. Kesian sidak yg dah dpt kerja di siya. Mauk jobless. Nasib bait kakak kamek melarang kakak kamek nak sorang ya apply. Ttp belum tentu dpt.

buDak_gaTaL · Post time 24-7-2008 08:06 AM

hmmm....dh namanya pembangunan

VittoVictorio · Post time 24-7-2008 10:53 AM

pembangunan memang perlu....
tapi kita mesti fikir juak apa kesan2 mun pembangunan ya dijalankan
macam projek empangan tok, nya akan memusnahkan beberapa kawasan di dalam taman negara mulu
satu-satunya tapak warisan dunia di sarawak.
vic tetap sik setuju......

wombat · Post time 24-7-2008 10:58 AM

ceh!
apa jadi ngan bakun?
bakun pon sik siap2 dah mauk mukak dam baru
mauk ku rendam palak 7 keturunan "org" ya dlm dam ya kelak! :@ :@ :@

VittoVictorio · Post time 24-7-2008 01:35 PM

Originally posted by wombat at 24-7-2008 10:58 AM
ceh!
apa jadi ngan bakun?
bakun pon sik siap2 dah mauk mukak dam baru
mauk ku rendam palak 7 keturunan "org" ya dlm dam ya kelak! :@ :@ :@

sabar wombat kelak vic nolong rendam palak dak nya hihihi....

Muntz · Post time 29-7-2008 05:14 PM

Sepatutnya pilot projectlah jadi projek contoh... tapi mun dah bakun pun sampei 10 tahun sik kongang nak abis, ginelah nak molah dam2 baru....

VittoVictorio · Post time 5-8-2008 08:11 AM

Originally posted by Muntz at 29-7-2008 05:14 PM
Sepatutnya pilot projectlah jadi projek contoh... tapi mun dah bakun pun sampei 10 tahun sik kongang nak abis, ginelah nak molah dam2 baru....

hujung2 habis hutan di sarawak tok... nunggu semua empangan pecah kakya banjir seluruh sarawak...
ya mok ditangga sidak nya kali.... greedy!!!!!!!!!!