“Rethink your mega dams plan, Dr M suggests to Sarawak government”, 27 January 2015

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad…suggested Sarawak rethink its highly controversial policy of building mega dams to harness electricity by replacing them with series of smaller dams like in Europe. Dr Mahathir…raised his concern over the adverse impact mega dams could have on the environment and the people. He said new dam building technology that minimised damage to the environment and minimised the social impact is already available and the state government could learn from European countries currently applying such technology…