Blockades against dam dismantled


MIRI: Enforcement teams from the Sarawak Forestry Department, the police and the General Operations Force have dismantled blockades that were set up by the natives in ulu Baram to stop the construction of the proposed RM4bilBaram Hydroelectric Dam in interior northern Sarawak, 200km inland from Miri City.

The enforcement personnel dismantled the blockades at Long Kesseh over the past 24 hours but did not arrest any of the protestors.

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Environment , baram dam , sarawak , forestry

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