Economy
Reuters Adds To the Questioning Over Taib’s Mad Dam Plans
The world’s top news agency has now added to the growing number of features questioning Taib Mahmud’s crazy idea to turn Sarawak into a vast ‘Industrial Park’, providing cheap electricity for the world’s dirtiest smelting industries.
In its feature on the Murum Dam the recent Reuters article begins with the observation that at least 40 trucks an hour are dragging wood (on behalf of Taib’s crony company Shing Yang) out of the last remaining areas of Sarawak’s forests behind the Murum area.
According to the NGO Global Witness this wood is coming from an area that had been previously set aside to be a National Park for Sarawak.
The Reuters article (below) describes Taib’s SCORE plans as “staggeringly ambitious”, a polite term for bonkers, mad, crazed, ill-thought-out and doomed.
Read the Reuters article and the rest on Sarawak Report, here