The Penan Blockade Against a New Gas Pipeline in Borneo

from Survival International

The Penan in Long Seridan are protesting against the building of a gas pipeline which is cutting through their ancestral land.
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Penan from the Long Seridan region have mounted a blockade to protest against the building of a gas pipeline which is cutting through their ancestral land and destroying their source of drinking water.

The 500km pipeline is being built by the Malaysian national oil company Petronas and is nearing completion. It will transport natural gas from the Malaysian state of Sabah, south to the coast of Sarawak.