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The allegation/claim by former environment advisor(Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit) to the Sarawak state government as reported in the article “DAWOS: SARAWAK HIDRO DID NOT FOLLOW RULES”, The Star, 12 Nov 2010 at page N8) is a serious allegation which may attract both legal and criminal implications.

From the legal perspective, the grave claim made by Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit deserves an immediate investigation by Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) and/or the State Department of Environment(DOE) because it claimed to have breached several environmental requirements as per the ‘Downstream Environment Study’.

It is understandable if a State government may not abide by Federal directives/orders in matters which fall within State’s jurisdictions(see Schedule 9- List I and Schedule 9- List II of the Federal Constitution).

However, it would be ironical that a project handled by a Federal Ministry ie owed by the Ministry of Finance Inc would breach environmental requirements which comes under the direct purview of another Federal Ministry/Agency namely the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE).

If this is found to be true, then corrective steps must be taken forthwith to ensure inter–federal Ministry/Agency compliance and effective observance in environmental affairs.

Any non-compliance must therefore be immediately addressed so as to preserve, maintain and uphold the rights of the Natives in and around the effected area (upstream and downstream impacts) and environmental integrity as a whole in the State of Sarawak.

……………………….
Jeong Chun Phuoc
Lecturer-in-Law
and an advocate in Strategic Environment and Taxation Intelligence(SETI)
He can be contacted at Jeongphu@yahoo.com

Note: This letter of notification was forwarded to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) for immediate action on 12 november 2010.

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The allegation/claim by former environment advisor(Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit) to the Sarawak state government as reported in the article “DAWOS: SARAWAK HIDRO DID NOT FOLLOW RULES”, The Star, 12 Nov 2010 at page N8) is a serious allegation which may attract both legal and criminal implications.

From the legal perspective, the grave claim made by Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit deserves an immediate investigation by Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) and/or the State Department of Environment(DOE) because it claimed to have breached several environmental requirements as per the ‘Downstream Environment Study’.

It is understandable if a State government may not abide by Federal directives/orders in matters which fall within State’s jurisdictions(see Schedule 9- List I and Schedule 9- List II of the Federal Constitution).

However, it would be ironical that a project handled by a Federal Ministry ie owed by the Ministry of Finance Inc would breach environmental requirements which comes under the direct purview of another Federal Ministry/Agency namely the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE).

If this is found to be true, then corrective steps must be taken forthwith to ensure inter–federal Ministry/Agency compliance and effective observance in environmental affairs.

Any non-compliance must therefore be immediately addressed so as to preserve, maintain and uphold the rights of the Natives in and around the effected area (upstream and downstream impacts) and environmental integrity as a whole in the State of Sarawak.

……………………….
Jeong Chun Phuoc
Lecturer-in-Law
and an advocate in Strategic Environment and Taxation Intelligence(SETI)
He can be contacted at Jeongphu@yahoo.com

Note: This letter of notification was forwarded to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) for immediate action on 12 november 2010.

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Cities and towns in the state were plunged into total darkness causing massive chaos as everybody was caught by surprise.

The power failure started in Kuching at about 6.30pm Saturday and rapidly spread northward to Sibu then to Miri by 7.30pm.

Deputy chief minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam when contacted by The Star confirmed that it was a blackout that seemed to have affected the main power grid.

“We (the state government) want to find out the source of the blackout. We need to know exactly what has triggered this massive state-wide blackout.

At 8.30pm Saturday the cause of the incident is still unknown.

Dr Chan, who is the state Industrial Development Minister, said that the Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation (Sesco) is in the midst of trying to re-connect the power supply as soon as possible.

The state authority hopes that the people remain calm.

Meanwhile, thousands of people who were caught up in the massive traffic jam and in commercial complexes were reportedly evacuated without any incidents so far.

Source : The Star

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Anyway, heard about the gomen insisting of EIA of the SCORE. Anyone has the EIA answer out there yet?

Now the EIA on the 12 damns. When will the EIA made public? Damn them!!

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because after the completion of these dams, Sarawak shall known to the world as “Sarawak, The Land of Hydrodam”…

No more hornbills because… I guess they has extinct already!!!

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If you have visited Sabah and Sarawak, you may have found out that their petrol service station are still selling kerosene. Why? I guess one of the reasons os that they need to lit up kerosene lamps at night. Many still depends on diesel powered generators.

And talking about “development”, they claimed that construction of the Murum Dam could create more than 5000 jobs at its peak period. Well, how much are the workers paid? How many of the 5000 jobs go to Indonesian and other foreign workers? In the end, after the clean, efficient and great HEP dam are completed, does the villages in the rural Sarawak still lit up by kero at night and they are supplied electricity only 12 hours a day?

It is too expensive and inefficient to connect the remote villages to the power grid. But it is good to connect to the Peninsula Malaysia which is 800km away separated by South China Sea? It is good to build the dam then the Aluminium Smeltering plant so that thousands of jobs are created and billions of tax revenue collected by the government. It is good to cut the trees and export as logs to earn revenue before the dams are built. It is good the a large piece of land is flooded – we could have another Taman Rekreasi Tasik XXX built after the dam completed. By that time, the Sarawakian must be too rich and stressed of modern living that they need such recreation facilities.

Vote for BN. Vote for Tomorrow. Of Dams and Damned.

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Why you Penangites should care if Sarawak has excess capacity thousand times more than it really need. We did our studies and found all these damns are environmental friendly. Ask Salang or Masing if you don’t believe me.

Yes it will submerged lands at least five or ten time the size of Singapore or Penang! So what?

Actually we are proud of that for goodness sake. You know we kinda pity Singapore for trying to make an island out of tiny pedra (pulau batu putih that Abdullah gave them) blanca, while we in Sarawak can afford to convert our lands into sea!

After all our people don’t need that huge track of land anymore. The Dayak are no longer headhunters and event our nomadic Penans have been settling down lately – by friendly force of course.

But, you should care if for the next 12 year of “my life” there will be nothing for my “cahaya mata?”.

You know what I mean!

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