Energy Mix in Malaysia Flashcards
How has Malaysia’s energy mix changed since the 70’s?
-Give examples and percentages
- Oil accounted for 80% of the energy mix, but by 2005, reduced to 40%, while gas increased to 50% and coal to 10%. HEP remained between 5-10%
- Overall production of energy has increased.
Energy production has increased from ……………….. in 1970 to ……………….. in 2005
4770 ktoe
77623 ktoe
Employment in the energy sector in Malaysia has ……………… by ……%
Risen
13%
Malaysia has invested heavily in …………… since the 60’s
Give the major sources of this type of energy in Malaysia
Renewables
Biofuels (palm oil) and HEP
What % of global palm oil production is from Malaysia?
What % of the country is covered by palm oil plantations?
39%
15%
Why has palm oil production increased in Malaysia?
- Government’s agricultural diversification programme; Reduce country’s dependence on rubber and tin in the 60’s
- Land settlement schemes; landless farmers given land in return for growing palm oil, to reduce poverty.
Give 2 reasons why palm oil considered to be sustainable
- Does not replace rainforest or food crops and farmers get and economic benefit.
- The palm oil plant can be productive for 30 years and the variety used can produce 5 tonnes per hectare per year.
How many tonnes of palm oil were produced in Malaysia in 2015?
How many people are employed by the industry?
17.73 million tonnes
half a million people
Give the name of a HEP scheme in Malaysia
Why has it caused controversy?
Bakun Dam Project
Short and long term social and environmental damage
Give 3 negative impacts of this HEP scheme
- Huge areas of tropical rainforest drowned, which could release large amounts of methane in the future
- 9,000 people have been displaced and forced to leave rainforests to work as labourers on plantations, losing their way of life an having to adjust to new homes, food etc.
- Government are seeing economic benefits, but none of this is reaching the affected people.
