As Sarawak leaders stand on the brink of an announcement of plans for further dam building, a shocking report has confirmed that the monstrous Bakun dam is critically in need of repair along with others in Malaysia. This has to happen before a single stone is laid to choke more rivers in the state …..
Those responsible for this global tragedy are a handful of weak, corrupted politicians working for a timber mafia who are stripping the planet bare. The latest Baleh log-jam is testimony to the scale and shoddiness of their destructive activity – and the danger that puts Sarawak people in ……
Taib’s former Political Secretary Karim Hamza has finally admitted to the failings of the state’s ill-conceived dam building programme, which has brought misery but not electricity to numerous communities…..
The words of the Murum lumber boss that “it was always 100% about the timber” has applied to all of Sarawak’s mega-dam projects, starting with Bakun……
The main purpose of Murum Dam was to extract billions of dollars worth of virgin timber says a former insider angry at being strong-armed out of contracts by companies closer to Taib……
Some 15,000 residents at the forced settlement of Sungai Asap continue to live unprotected from fire, owing to half-finished fire hydrants that still don’t work, say those who attempted to put out the devastating blaze at Uma Bawang…
Enquiries have made plain that the claims from Kuching do not hold water on the ground, where villagers and headmen say they are completely in the dark about what they are expected to do in the event of any kind of emergency….
However, as water is now filmed pouring out of a series of separate cracks, the UK contractor alleged to be monitoring the situation has distanced itself from the project – we ask WHAT IS GOING ON?……
The State Government has ignored Sarawak Report’s shocking exposes of dangerous construction practices at Bakun; potentially catastrophic turbine flaws at Murum; warnings of ‘catastrophic cascading failure’ at both Bakun and Murum, as well as scandalous human rights violations at both dams. Instead they have launched plans for a third ‘white elephant’ at Baleh….
SCORE is modelled on outdated, Soviet-style rapid industrialisation and state planning in a rich jungle state, which needed no such nonsense. Sarawak’s so-called ‘leap-forward’ is no more than the totalitarian vision of one man – and a scam to fill out pockets….
Voters need to learn that it is for them to make the change and not hope that somehow the greedy old men of BN can reform themselves…
The UK press are having a field day over the ‘boobs’ made by a ‘bunch of dicks’, who stripped on Mount Kinabalu. No one applauds their disrespectful acts in the face of the warning of their guides and perhaps they somewhat deserve the lesson brought upon their heads by the very tragic earthquake that followed.
The day after Chief Minister Adenan Satem’s ‘Give Me a Chance’ speech in London this month, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Anifah Aman was raging over the phone at the High Commission….
Malaysia’s political leaders have struggled to shift blame for the shocking floods, which have displaced a quarter of a million folk over the Christmas period….
It turns out that what Taib has labelled ‘progress’ is now being called ‘corruption’ by none other than the iconic former leader of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad.
