Category: Environment EN

CAP urges the Kedah government to take immediate action to stop logging activities in Bukit Perak in the district of Pendang because it is polluting the environment and jeopardising the wellbeing of the local residents here. CAP is upset that although the logging activity has been going on for some time, no effective action has been taken to handle the ensuing problems. Since two months ago 500...

Four national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have raised their objection against the proposed Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (KIDEX) because it comes at a price in terms of adverse impacts on the environment, public health and residents of Petaling Jaya. The findings of the Preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA) undertaken for the controversial KIDEX have been called into...

Malaysian Government Urged Not to Build More Incinerators CAP calls on the Malaysian government to not build any more waste incinerators in Malaysia. A few are in the pipeline including one in Taman Beringin, Kuala Lumpur which has amassed protest by surrounding communities.  The other proposed incinerators are in Bukit Payung, Johor and Sungai Udang, Malacca. Since the locally designed...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) would like to urge the Sarawak State Government to heed the call of the communities affected by the Baram Dam, as expressed through the People’s Declaration against the Baram Hydroelectric Project 2014released today. The proposed 1,200 MW Baram Dam is located between Long Naah and Long Kesseh, 200 km from Miri. It is estimated that 20,000 people from the Kayan,...

CAP urges the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry and related agencies to prohibit any person who is given the responsibility of cleaning irrigation canals and rivers from using herbicides or weedkillers for this purpose. This restriction should be enforced immediately because using weedkillers is becoming more widespread in agriculture areas in the country, causing adverse impacts to...

CAP is concerned of the shrimp farming project that will be implemented in Kampung Kuala Bagan Tiang near Tanjung Piandang in Kerian District, Perak because of the potential impacts to the environment here. Besides destroying the mangrove forest, the project will also pollute marine waters in the coastal area here and threaten the source of income of about 300 small fishers in the village....

CAP supports KEDA’s effort to rehabilitate idle land   The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) Kedah to assist the Kedah Regional Development Authority (KEDA) to overcome the problem of water supply to paddy fields in Kampung Charok Sikin, district of Baling here. If the problem continues,...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Pahang government to pay serious attention and take immediate action to curb river pollution in Kampung Lalang, Benta near Kuala Lipis. The source of pollution is a mining activity here which has caused the river water to turn muddy, filled with sand and its clear water turn brown. The pollution has not only affected the daily use of the river water by 300...