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The China Ban’s Wake-Up Call: Recycling is Not Enough

admin January 22, 2018 0 Comments
Leaders from Around the World Demand Less Plastic January 22, 2018-Recycling professionals, environmentalists, and policy influencers are calling for a significant reduction in the production of plastics, citing China’s recent ban on plastic waste imports from other countries as a “wake-up call” that we can’t recycle our way out of plastic pollution. GAIA, with the help of core partners...
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SAM Urges Authorities To Address Problems Faced By Teluk Bahang Coastal Fishers

admin January 11, 2018 0 Comments
PENANG: Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry, Penang state government and local authority to investigate and take immediate action to address the problems faced by the Teluk Bahang coastal fishers here. In a survey conducted by SAM after receiving complaints from the fishermen, we found that the pollution from concrete wastes on coastal and marine...
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Make Public State Action Plan on Paired Road Projects

admin December 29, 2017 0 Comments
The Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) deeply regrets the approval by the Department of Environment (DOE) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the three paired road projects on 10 November this year. TBRA has learnt about this from the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) who were informed about the EIA approval by the DOE.We also have learnt that the Penang State...
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Objection of Clearcut Logging Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve

admin December 21, 2017 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) objects to clear cut logging of trees covering 500 hectares in parts of Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve (Compartments 12, 13, 14 & 15 of HS Bukit Enggang) for the purpose of establishing a forest plantation (monoculture cultivation in a Permanent Reserved Forest). The extractive activity (logging) by uncontrolled clear cutting of original forest trees had caused...
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Need to review Penang State Enactment on State Park and Botanic Gardens

admin December 6, 2017 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang, while welcoming the move to create a statutory corporation for managing State Parks, including the Penang Botanical Gardens, is disappointed that there was no public consultation on the provisions contained in the law establishing the Corporation. The Bill was rushed through and adopted by the State Assembly without sufficient discussion. After the first...
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MUCH NEEDED PAINFUL CLAMPING AND TOWING

admin November 23, 2017 0 Comments
Kudos to the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) and the Penang Island Mayor Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif in enforcing the clamping and towing of illegally parked vehicles. This is in view of the recent case where a lady with her disabled mother’s car was clamped in Jalan Macalister. MBPP enforcement officers acted even-handedly because it is common to find that cars without OKU stickers taking...
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CAP SAM Very Distressed By Flood Tragedy

admin November 6, 2017 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia  are very distressed by the tragedy that has taken place yesterday and early morning today in Penang. The floods, landslides and the disruption of people's lives are even much worst than what happened on 15th Sept. Yes - there was non stop rain and very high winds, but the major factor causing this has been the removal of the hill...
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TBRA: Halt short-sighted urban planning

admin November 5, 2017 0 Comments
Penang: Tanjung Bunga Residents’ Association (TBRA) is once again calling for the State to halt all short-sighted and patchy urban planning that continue to cause more flooded homes, uprooted trees, power cuts, and making travel inconvenient. TBRA wants the State to relook at all its urban and sub-urban development projects to see how it can improve the State’s ability to resist and absorb...
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SAND MINING AND LOGGING IN GUNUNG INAS PERMANENT RESERVED FOREST THREATEN ENVIRONMENTAL EQUILIBRIUM IN ULU MAHANG

admin October 25, 2017 0 Comments
Logs from Gunung Inas Forest Reserve. The Kedah State Government, Kedah Forestry Department, Kulim District and Land Office should pay serious attention to sand mining operations in the Gunung Inas Permanent Reserved Forest located near Kampung Ulu Mahang, Kulim, Kedah. Although the ongoing sand mining operations has been approved by the State Authority, this has to be reviewed because it...
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