KUCHING, Jan 27, 2015: Former Prime Minister Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamad said he prefers Sarawak to build a smaller, not mega, dams as
being proposed by the state government.
"Mega dams destroy the environment, forests, inundate large areas of land and displace
many people," he said in his keynote address at the opening of the
International Energy Week 2015 here.
Sarawak, under former Chief Minister Tun Abdul Taib
Mahmud, had plans to build 12 mega dams which are capable of generating about
30,000MW of electricity.
Only Batang Ai dam (100MW) is in operational while Murum dam (944MW) has
just been completed.
