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 SAM Calls for Transparency and Accountability in SarawakBy SAM SA M 2007-06-21 | PRESS RELEASE: Approval of Plantation Projects in the Bakun Catchment Area between 1999 and 2002: SAM Calls for Transparency and Accountability in Sarawak. SAM is shocked to learn recently that between 1999 and 2002, three huge plantation projects, which are largely located within the Bakun catchment, have been approved by the Sarawak state government. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports for the projects were approved between 2000 and 2003. In an effort to counter mounting criticisms against the Bakun Hydroelectric Project, from 1995 to 2001, several of our Federal ministers have promised that the 1.5 million ha Bakun Catchment Area, a mostly forested region, will soon be gazetted in order to protect the dam. As a matter of fact, our then Deputy Prime Minister himself was widely quoted by local newspapers on March 13, 1996 stating that
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