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6 arrested as cops end blockade at Sarawak Energy’s substation site

Land and Survey Department enforcement personnel dismantling a shed used by the villagers of Kg Lereng Bukit that had blocked access to a Sarawak Energy Bhd substation in a dispute over land ownership and compensation. – The Malaysian Insight pic, June 27, 2019.

POLICE in the Sarawak oil town of Miri arrested six people – two of them women – in a confrontation to end their nearly two-year fight to lock out contractors of the state power company, Sarawak Energy Bhd , from entering a site to resume the construction of the town’s new indoor 33KV substation. The substation, an extension of the town’s existing substation, is a key piece in SEB’s RM1 billion power supply reinforcement plan to upgrade the supply system of the town and to meet rising electricity demand.

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