Tuesday, July 22, 2008

12 dams materialize soon?

Nothing can be done against the power of Mother Nature. Take a look at the stricken China due to massive earthquake in May. The earthquake had geographically displaced a few areas in mainland including the man-made lakes serving the purpose to generate hydroelectricity. At any time, further disturbance will possibly demolish the damps and the disaster prior to it is unimaginable. Even the mighty Three Gorges Damp is not excluded.

Back to the proposal to build 12 damps in Sarawak, comparing our state to China, Sarawak is just like a small durian seed inside a large durian. Sarawak owns a few long rivers in Malaysia. Now the government wants to put huge burden on the land to support power generation projects?

Malaysia has been creating records for building a lot of world records breaking structures but at the end maintenance is not up to standard due to irrelevant deals awarded to the irrelevant authorities to handle it. If these damp projects end up in the wrong hands, can we still feel safe while acknowledge the existence of damp behind our house maintained by a bunch of jokers?

We are in more trouble should these projects materialized in the state. It is a good reason for the government to clear more forests before the designated zones are flooded. By then, these culprits of the state would have whack in handsome amount of wages and migrate somewhere safe, far far away from the state. The projects will likely be awarded to companies from China that already have reputations in damp technology. But does the budget really enough to manage these mega projects? We are concerned with the money, which might drain down in someone’s pockets before the actual projects even started. Then, these engineering firms might compromise on quality with the leftover funds. Hey, if you deal with Chinese, you’ll have to understand their mindset definition of money. They can build damp with a life of 20 years, 50 years depending on the budget. That’s China boleh!!!

In this issue, Taib will not care so much now since his days are numbered on earth. Even his witches can’t witchcraft anything to prolong his life.

Like it or not, 12 damps will be too much for a hand to bear. And those native people living in upstream of affected rivers will be one of the earliest to be affected besides the ecosystems surrounding the affected areas.

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Sarawak to build 12 dams to meet future power needs

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

keep continuing subsidize malaya in electric and lost the land

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