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'irregularities' in projects such as Bakun, QP and MOQ did not highlighted these in their annual reports and perhaps the personal relationship would end up to be a situation of 'You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours'.
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The losses a year earlier were a result of provisions of 2.09 billion ringgit booked in that period for cost overruns in energy-division projects such as the Bakun hydroelectric dam in eastern Malaysia and an oil project in Qatar.
Sime Darby Returns to Black Ankur Relia 2011
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Malaysia The Bakun dam in Sarawak, due to be completed this year, has displaced 10,000 tribal people, including many semi-nomadic Penan tribespeople.
Hydroelectric dams pose threat to tribal peoples, report warns 2010
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In May, the company asked its then-president and chief executive, Ahmad Zubir Murshid, to go on leave after an internal task force revealed losses of 964 million ringgit from cost overruns in several key energy and utility projects, including civil work for the Bakun hydroelectric dam in east Malaysia and a project for Maersk Oil in Qatar.
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However, dispersal by the seaward Ekman transport appears to limit fish spawning in the area, with fish migrating large distances to the Southern California Bight between upwellings to spawn (Bakun, 1993).
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LME book chapters and articles pertaining to the South Brazil Shelf include Bakun, 1993, and Ekau and Knoppers, 2003.
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For more information on coastal upwelling as it relates to ecosystem productivity and fish production, see Bakun et al, 1998.
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For more on surface circulation and on upwelling in the Gulf of Aden, off Oman and off the Southwest Indian coast, see Bakun et al, 1998.
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The upwelling coastal phenomenon, El Niño, and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) result in strong interannual oscillations in the productivity of the ecosystem and, consequently, of the catch levels of different species groups (see Bakun 1993, and FAO, 2003).
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ENSO events are characterized locally by an increase in temperature, a rise in coastal sea level, diminished upwelling, and increased coastal rainfall (see Bakun, 1993).
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