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From: "Sam" <sengkin@pl.jaring.my>
Subject: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE BAKUN HYDROELECTRIC DAM
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:58:44 +0800
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Dear Friends,

While the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of dams are being
questioned
around the world, it is with dismay that the government of Malaysia
has, for
the third time, revived the mammoth Bakun Hydroelectric Dam project.

Bakun Dam will inundate an area as large as Singapore, with it, 12
totally
protected species and 93 protected species of wildlife; 1,230 species
of
flora and fauna used for medicine, food, fibre and other social uses,
with
an estimated value of RM 22 billion in annual forest product revenue.
The
project will create adverse impacts on water levels and salt water
intrusion
in the river downstream, potentially affecting tens of thousands of
people
in Sarawak. It will also cause degradation of fish habitat and loss of
fisheries resources downstream and in the inundated area.

The 10,000 indigenous people forcibly displaced by the project have
not
received adequate compensation. Those who had relocated to the Kampung
Asap
resettlement site are now suffering from abject poverty, malnutrition,
unemployment, appalling housing scheme and dire social economic
condition.
Some have moved back into the dam site and more are inclined to do the
same.

Details and petition form are available at http://www.suaram.org/bakun.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Sam Hui
SUARAM & SOS Selangor


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