Opponents of Malaysian dam project cautiously optimistic about ...

Adenan has put the Baram Dam plan on hold indefinitely, and while the Indigenous peoples trying to stop the dam from being built applauded the decision, they ...

News on Dams - Mongabay

Opponents of Malaysian dam project cautiously optimistic about moratorium. Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2015. Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment ...

Malaysian court shuts down hydroelectric dam project on Orang ...

A Malaysian court ruled this week that hydropower companies building a dam on land belonging to the Indigenous Semai people of Malaysia's ...

Indigenous activists celebrate bitter victory over rainforest dam ...

As indigenous activists opposing hydropower dams on their territories gather this weekend in the rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysia, ...

Anti-Dam Activists Gather in Sarawak State to Celebrate Second ...

Indigenous anti-dam activists from Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Brazil, the US, Honduras, as well as activists from throughout Malaysia ...

Malaysian dam project opposed by tribes gets green light - Phys.org

Construction of a Malaysian dam that will flood a rainforested area half the size of Singapore and displace 20000 tribespeople was given the ...

Political Structure and 'Dam' Conflicts - World Water Council

Sarawak region. In short, the government of Malaysia has not only overlooked, but even suppressed popular opposition to the Bakun Dam project, and is determined ...

Greens protest over Bakun Dam project - Construction News

BUCKNALL & Austin is facing a campaign of action by environmental protesters over its involvement with the controversial 4 billion Bakun Dam ...

The interplay of activists and dam developers - Taylor & Francis Online

The Myitsone Dam project, currently suspended, was being developed by CPI and Asia World, a Burmese dam developer, allegedly one of Myanmar's most successful ...

Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

The plan, which calls for a network of 12 hydroelectric dams to be built across Sarawak's rainforests by 2020, is proceeding despite strong opposition.

(PDF) Multi-causal pathways of public opposition to dam projects in ...

First, lacking social safeguards in combination with the presence of political opportunity structures and higher levels of development are sufficient for ...

The Impacts of Hydropower Dams in the Mekong River Basin - MDPI

Poor water quality released from the dam has also been associated with health problems including death. During construction of the Yali Falls ...

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

order of approval date) the Batang Ai Hydropower Project in Malaysia (Batang Ai), Singkarak ... Project should carefully be recorded, as such data will ...

issues and tactics in the bakun dam project

Global networks presented their findings on eight large dams that have put pressure on the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) and the Malaysian government to reconsider ...

Controversy Flows Around Malaysian Dam Project - The New York ...

Malaysia's cabinet approved the dam in September despite environmental protests and doubts about its economic viability. S. Samy Vellu, the ...

global networks: issues and tactics in the bakun dam project

1 However, the Bakun dam project invites a high controversial issue to environmentalist and local people against the Malaysian government. The Malaysian ...

The history and implications of the Bakun hydroelectric dam in Borneo

Bakun Dam is the second-largest hydroelectric dam project in Asia and the most expensive energy project in Southeast Asia (Lee et al., 2014; Sovacool & Bulan, ...

Cambodia's Environment: Good News in Areng Valley? - The Diplomat

But for the locals, activists and conservationists involved in the issue, a confirmed suspension or cancellation of the Cheay Areng dam would ...

DamRight! - image

It has often been argued by dam opponents that large dam projects could not ... hydro generators to the Bakun Hydroelectric Project in Malaysia – at the time the.

China senses change in Myanmar - Taipei Times

China is forecast to invest US$3.6 billion in the dam, but what worries China most about the sudden suspension of the project is not the economic loss, but the ...