Awang Tengah: We need to communicate on hydropower benefits as top priorities

Beijing, May 19, 2015: Public Utilities Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan stressed at the World  Hydropower Congress here on the need to communicate the benefits of hydropower and the systematic sharing of learning from around the world as  top priorities.

"Such learning should be active and should include real partnerships with members of civil societies who are committed, rather than preventing hydropower," he said in his speech at the congress.

Awang Tengah leads Sarawak delegation to World Hydropower Congress in China

BEIJING (China), May 19, 2015 - A delegation from Sarawak Energy will share on Sarawak’s hydropower development efforts and progress at the 2015 World Hydropower Congress, a global premier event where hydropower leaders and experts converge.

The three-day congress aimed at advancing sustainable hydropower started today at the Kempinski Yanqi Lake complex here.  Representatives from the Sarawak Government also attended the conference, led by  Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment, Minister of Public Utilities and Minister of Industrial Development.