THANKS TO BMF FOR EXPOSING THE GREED OF TAIB & HIS AIDES FOR THE TRAGEDIES IN SARAWAK BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE CONTROVERSIAL DAM PROJECTS. QUOTE: KUCHING: Swiss-based NGO, Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) wants Swedish-Swiss power and technology group, ABB, to withdraw from all dam-related activities in Sarawak. In making the call, BMF criticised the Zurich-based multinational corporation which also operating in robotics, for ‘providing key technologies to Sarawak’s controversial dam projects’. In a statement today, BMF said that ABB, which has operations in around 100 countries, ‘is involved in a controversial dam initiative with vast environmental and social impacts in Sarawak’. “The human rights situation at the Murum Dam has been criticised for a while, but now the conflict has spread further and reached the area of the planned Baram Dam. In both areas, affected communities are manning blockades. “Since 2009, ABB has deepened its involvement in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, where the government is currently realising a series of at least 12 mega-dams,” said BMF. It also noted that the planned dam programme would ‘dislodge tens of thousands of natives and inundate over 1,600 sq km of rainforest and farmland. UNQUOTE freemalaysiatoday/category/nation/2013/11/19/withdraw-from-sarawak-dam-projects/
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:41:20 +0000
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