SEB quashes reports that it has started building Baram dam

KUCHING, Dec 17, 2014: Sarawak Energy Berhad has not begun any clearing or construction works for the Baram dam, but will do so  once soil investigation work has been done, comprehensive feasibility studies undertaken and Social and Environment Impact Assessment (SEIA) reports have been completed, it said in a statement today.

Even then, the approval to go ahead with the construction must be obtained first from the State Government, it said.

Last minute attempt to stop perimeter survey from being conducted, Lands and Surveys blasted for giving one-day notice

KUCHING, Dec 17, 2014: PKR Mas Gading chairman Boniface Willy Tumek (picture, right) has blasted the Land and Survey Department for giving a short notice to the Bidayuh villages in Singgai on its intention to conduct a perimeter survey on their native customary rights (NCR) land.