Flashback #Star50: Fuelling the economic growth
FROM the get-go about two decades ago, it was a hot button topic. And it went through several false starts before it was eventually completed in 2010. The project to build Bakun dam, Malaysia’s largest hydroelectric dam, had weathered through environmental concerns, protests from activists and local folk, and challenging economic times. One report in National Geographic described the project as one that changed “landscape and lives”. It was first approved by the Federal Government in the ...
Source: thestar.com.my