Indigenous communities in Sarawak left in the dark about hydropower proposal

Mongabay
Jul 9, 2024, 4:01 pm129 pts
Abang Johari Openg, the premier of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, recently announced three new dam projects on Bornean rivers and suggested that local communities there had given their approval. But Celine Lim, managing director of civil society organization SAVE Rivers, based in the Sarawak town of Miri,…

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