KOTA KINABALU: Logging has been allowed at 150ha of the pristine Tawau Hills Park, which is about the size of Penang island, to make way for the nation’s first geothermal power plant.
Sabah Forestry Department director Datuk Sam Mannan said the clearing and extraction of 1,639 logs was for the project site located in Sabah’s east coast.
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