Improved power supply shelved for Taibs dams?


Opposition DAP claims which funds meant for a 'reinforcement as well as expansion' of energy supply by Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation (Sesco) has been hijacked.
KUCHING: A 15-hour energy outage in a little parts of Kuching has led a furious Sarawak DAP to accuse a state supervision as well as Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation (Sesco) of failing to carry out a promised 10-year master devise to reinforce as well as expand energy supply to a city.
The master plan, conceived fifteen years ago, was to investigate a potential increase in a energy demand as well as how to support for such a rise.
Under a plan, Sesco has a customary procession as well as process to safeguard a energy supply to a city would not be interrupted.
Said Sarawak DAP secretary Chong Chieng Jen: "Following a energy outage in Kuching a couple of days ago, we done a little investigation, which revealed which many of a due projects in a devise were not carried out.
"Sesco is pronounced to have customary procession where a indifferent energy plants could supply physical phenomenon if a main plants shut down or when vital cables break down.
"But a state supervision as well as Sesco have unsuccessful to adhere to a policy. It shows which not only Sesco should be hold responsible, though a state supervision should additionally bear responsibility."
Chong, who is Bandar Kuching MP as well as Kota Sentosa assemblyman, additionally longed for to know how a state supervision as well as Sesco were starting to recompense a consumers as well as remedy a wrong which has been done.
"The energy failure has caused businessmen to ! lose mul tiform millions of ringgit.
"This matter should be since priority by a state supervision as well as Sesco so which a interest of Sarawakians in ubiquitous to suffer undeviating physical phenomenon supply should not be compromised by a dam-building projects.
"We urge a state supervision as well as Sesco to give full explanation as to because there was no further 10-year master devise for bolster as well as enlargement on a physical phenomenon supply to Kuching after a 1997 master plan," he said, adding which he would lift a emanate in a subsequent State Legislative Assembly sitting.
Chong pronounced which a infancy of a funds meant for a projects under a master devise has been channelled instead to a building of mega dams, seen as Chief Minister Taib Mahmud's house pet project.
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