KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal (pix) said today the state government had never issued a statement announcing the can...
said today the state government had never issued a statement announcing the cancellation of the Papar dam construction project.
Speaking to the media after attending an Aidilfitri celebration hosted by the state Infrastructure Development Ministry here, Mohd Shafie said the Papar dam could not be equated with the Kaiduan dam because the former would be constructed entirely in the Papar district and the project had been studied in detail with the long-term needs of the people taken into account.
“We don’t want the people later on to protest over not having water ... Therefore, the current shortage of water must be addressed urgently,“ he said, going on to cite the example of the Bakun dam in Sarawak which also received resistance, including overseas protests, but had succeeded in supplying electricity all the way to Brunei Darussalam.He added that apart from supplying the water needs of the people, the Papar dam would also generate electricity.
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