Sarawak damned with damns
Behold Sarawakians, your lovely State is planning to build more and more dams. Damned! The beautiful name Land of Hornbills may as well be replaced with the name Land of Dams!!
In the name of development, particularly aluminium-smelting industry, the clever State government is considering and planning to build more damns! The more damns they built, more soils will be destroyed, lush green forests which is supposed to be the LUNG for Sarawak will be cut, the natives being driven out from their homeland, and most of all someone’s pocket is getting bigger.
Sarawak to build 12 dams to meet future power needs
PETALING JAYA: Sarawak plans to build 12 hydroelectric dams to meet its future industrialisation needs.
On another note, the one and only English daily in East Malaysia reported this:
Fighting poverty outside SCORE
MIRI: The state government is to carry out poverty eradication projects outside the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) by way of five agropolitan projects which are to be spread out evenly across the state, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu said.
To know what the term agropolitan means, just click here. In lay men’s term, agropolitan project consists of various integrated agricultural and agro-based development projects.
I have plans to return to my State to serve after graduating. It looks like good news to us (civil engineers) as far as development is concern. But the underlying question is, do all these so-called projects for the rakyat really benefit the rakyat or only a certain quarter of high-rank officials? Who knows? In the mean time, let’s just wait and see before jumping into conclusion.
Tags: agropolitan projects, dam, Sarawak, SCORE




Dan was born on the 10th of September 1984 to a Malaysian family. He graduated from school, read for an Engineering degree at UTM and graduated in 2007. He then continues to pursue his Masters degree at a young age of 23 ;). Why so serious?!




