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Construction of the dam required the relocation of more than 9,000 native residents (mainly Kayan/Kenyah) of the indigenous peoples who lived in the area to be flooded. Many Sarawak natives have been relocated to a longhouse settlement named Sungai Asap in Bakun. Most of them were subsistence farmers.
The Murum Dam (Malay: Empangan Murum) is a gravity dam on the Murum River in Sarawak, Malaysia. Construction began in 2008, [4] the dam's reservoir began to fill in July 2013 and the first generator was commissioned in December 2014. [5] [6] The fourth and final turbine became operational on 8 June 2015. [7]
The Baram Dam, also known as Baram 1 Dam and Baram Hydro-electric Dam Project (Malay: Empangan Baram) is a proposed gravity dam on the Baram River in Sarawak, Malaysia.The site of the dam is 250 kilometres (160 miles) inland from Miri, the second largest city in Sarawak.
[187] [188] Sarawak's mega-dam policies, such as the Bakun Dam and Murum Dam projects, have submerged thousands of hectares of forest and displaced thousands of indigenous people. [189] [190] Since 2013, the proposed Baram Dam project has been delayed due to ongoing protests from local indigenous tribes. [191]
The Batang Ai Dam (Malay: Empangan Batang Ai) is a concrete-face rock-fill dam in Batang Ai National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia. The power station comprises four 25 MW turbines, totalling the installed capacity to 100 MW. The station is operated by Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation. Preparations for the dam began in 1975, before the design ...
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project. California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River ...
The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. ... But anxiety turned to joy for the Indigenous ...
1987 - Communities in Sarawak, such as Penan and Kayan, resisted logging by putting up a blockade in the Baram region - 42 activists were arrested. [9]1990 - The Voices for the Borneo Rainforest World Tour, brought Indigenous perspectives to forums across the globe, with the goal of raising awareness about the logging in Sarawak, and calling for an end to deforestation in primary rainforests ...