(June 20, 2011) The practice of adding excessive water to cement – regarded as unsafe by the construction industry – was endemic in the building of Malaysia’s biggest dam, a new exposé claims.
Key questions for Malaysia’s Bakun dam project
(September 12, 2006) Malaysia’s huge Bakun hydroelectric dam is three-quarters complete and within four years it will drown an area of jungle the size of Singapore. The trouble is, there is still no customer for its power.
Dirty dam draws dirty smelters
(March 19, 2002) China has been involved in building the Bakun dam in Malaysia’s eastern Sarawak state, and is now eyeing the problem-riddled project’s surplus electricity to run an energy-hungry and polluting aluminum-smelting operation.


