A Sarawakian’s cry against Baram dam, the `man-made disaster’

 

Live after Manmade Natural Disaster – Baram Dam

Ask anybody with the right minds if they believe the completion in total of 12 dams proposed for Sarawak would enhance the poverty level, boost up the people’s economy and bring developments? Well, my answer to that in single word is call “Disaster”.

Needless to mention; I do not belong to any political parties, I am not a lawyer, nor a professor, I do not belong to any organization or neither an association to write this letter. I write opinion because I do not believe in the “development” that caused permanent damages to environment and “development” to destroy human race, I do not believe in “development” that the seemingly geeky, construction of dam is actually a breeding ground solely for the sake of boosting their family businesses. I do not believe in government who govern this country under policies of lies that do not speakers stressed that development projects could either help indigenous peoples to survive or to destroy them and their cultural heritage.

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NGOs’ turn to hammer Baram dam!

29^th August, 2011

PRESS STATEMENT

STOP PORTRAYING THAT THE BARAM DAM HAS BEEN APPROVED AS THE FEASIBILITY STUDY INCLUDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (SEIA) HAVE YET TO BE COMPLETED

 

MIRI, SARAWAK – We would like to call on the Sarawak State Government and its agencies such as the Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) including the Member of Parliament for Baram, Dato Jacob Dungau Sagan and the State Assemblyman for Telang Usan, Encik Dennis Ngau to immediately stop portraying that the implementation of the proposed and controversial Baram dam has been approved for implementation as the feasibility study including the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the Social Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) for the project has yet to be completed.

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