Save Our Sungai Selangor

Dear Supporter,

Unfortunately, when it comes to Brazilian court decisions, good news doesn’t last long. Last week, a day after I sent you news that the Belo Monte Dam had been suspended by a Federal Judge, the decision was unilaterally overruled by the President of the Appeals Court, without any hearing or consideration of the evidence.

And then last night, at the 11th hour, a new injunction was issued and the auction delayed again! Still, the Brazilian government is trying to push through their plan to auction the Belo Monte Dam project to private investors as early as this afternoon. All over Brazil, thousands of people are in the streets today protesting against the project.

Please call the Brazilian Embassy today and register your concern about the government’s support for Belo Monte Dam.

The Brazilian Embassy needs to hear that you will not sit idly by while indigenous rights are violated and the Amazon Basin is destroyed. Add your voice to thousands of others around the world who are demanding that the Belo Monte Dam be stopped.

Call the Brazilian Embassy now!

Thanks for all that you do,

Aviva Imhof
Campaigns Director
International Rivers

By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer Bradley Brooks, Associated Press Writer (April 15, 2010)

BRASILIA, Brazil – A judge on Wednesday temporarily halted bidding on a controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, a move hailed as a “small victory” by movie director James Cameron, who has taken up the fight against the project.

A Brazilian federal judge in the Amazon state of Para delayed the bidding process for construction on the dam, which would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric project. The bidding was set for Tuesday.

Judge Antonio Carlos Almeida Campelo said more time was needed to examine claims from Brazil’s attorney general that there were not enough environmental protections in place during the planning of the project.

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Malaysia Pahang-Selangor Raw Water Transfer Project Questions (submitted on 4 Aug)
by Mr.Yukichi Maeda (House of Reps, Dem. Party of Japan)
and Answers by Min. of Foreign Affairs

Q1: This project is divided into multiple components including tunnel related construction, dam related construction, water intake weir related construction, and consulting services, and bidding is thought to be done individually for each component. What are the contents of each component?
A1: We believe this project includes each component as follows;
1.Tunnel related construction: Construction of water transfer tunnel (approximately 45 km)
2.Dam related construction: Construction of a dam (active storage capacity is 136 million cubic meters)
3.Water intake weir related construction: Construction of a concrete water gate weir (5 meter height)
4.Consulting services: Detail design for dam and water intake weir related construction, procurement control support, execution management, environmental management planning support, etc.
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Call for Stop loan disbursement by JBIC to Pahang-Selangor Raw Water Transfer Project
August 13, 2008Friends of the Earth JapanTokyo - There are increasing voices that Japan should reconsider its largest scale ODA (Official Development Assistance) to Malaysia’s Pahang-Selangor Raw Water Transfer Project.
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Sarawak has proposed to build 12 massive dams (excluding Bakun) in the next decade to harness its hydroelectric power, putting the state in a collision course with environmentalists.

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While the state does not need more power, it hopes to generate electricity for export - both to Peninsular Malaysia and neighbouring Indonesia.

Sarawak’s bold ambition of generating a colossal 7,000MW of electricity between 2008 and 2020 was unwittingly revealed in document made available on a China-based website.

The document appeared to be a slide presentation made by Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) managing director Abdul Aziz Husain in October last year at the China-Asean Power Cooperation and Development Forum in Nanning, China. It was published ‘accidentally’ on the website dedicated to the international forum, & discovered by Switzerland-based NGO Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF).

Source: Malaysiakini

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