Allegedly, onlookers are wowed and impressed by Sarawak’s ‘green’ policies, including for hydrogen, tree planting, carbon capture and the rest. Yet, right now, what is going on is not green in the least. Less greed and more genuine concern for good governance is needed to drive these plans…….

Native communities in Sarawak, whose lands are immeasurably more valuable in terms of biodiversity than elsewhere on the planet, should take note of what is going on in the United States…….

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SCORE is modelled on outdated, Soviet-style rapid industrialisation and state planning in a rich jungle state, which needed no such nonsense.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….

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.

Grass roots campaigners and International NGOs joined forces in Kuala Lumpur today to ram home the realities about the Baram Dam, pet project of Taib Mahmud. In summary, they pointed out the plan has no legal right to proceed and flies in the face of a long list of legal obligations that the Sarawak State

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Murum Dam clearly stated back in 2008 that it was a “High Risk” project, in several categories concerning basic safety, we can now reveal. In particular, the report referred to the problem of sedimentation of the upper Murum River, caused by current logging, as one of the major

This diagram illustrates the “catastrophic” consequences of a possible “cascading failure” of the Murum and Bakun Dams. It comes from the official Environmental Impact Assessment report submitted to Sarawak Energy in 2008, but kept secret till now. A wall of water travelling “at high speed” is shown as having inundated nearly three thousand square kilometres

Sarawak Energy has lost a second Senior Engineer from the Murum Dam site to an un-expected and untimely death in a matter of a few weeks. As reported in the Borneo Post, Jabing Bujing sadly died in his bed shortly after returning from Sabah on 29th July. He was discovered by a family member, who

Sarawak Report has learnt that Sarawak Energy’s Technical Manager for the Muram Dam hydro-electric project, Frankie Chin, was questioned by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) shortly before his sudden death last month. However, The MACC has formally denied the claim. Frankie Chin died on the night of 12th June after a short illness. A contact

Sarawak Energy (SEB) has been pouring out self-congratulatory propaganda for weeks, praising its own ‘generosity’ and ‘kindness’ towards the Penan people, who were thrust from their homelands and forced into resettlements by the Murum Dam. So just take a look at this – SEB’s transport provision for children aged 7-12 years old for their daily

Sarawak Report has consulted a top British dam engineer about the repairs currently under-way on the newly installed turbines at the Murum Dam. Dr Phillip Williams of Williams Associates, San Fransciso, is an expert in hydraulics.  We showed him the leaked reports on the defects affecting the Chinese made turbines installed at Murum. We also