Category: Environment EN

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) supports the Prime Minister’s pledge yesterday to review the disastrous mega PSR project which has come under bitter criticism from civil society organisations including CAP. The Prime Minister’s message indicates that the mega PSR project is defective in its planning and design and raises serious questions about the State Government’s competence...

The oil industry asserts that all plastic is recyclable. Numerous investigations have found it largely is not, and the vast majority of US plastic that consumers thought would go to a recycling center to be reused is actually burned or buried. Troves of documents have shown oil and plastic industry leadership and executives have known that plastic recycling will almost never make financial sense...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) appeals to the Prime Minister (PM) of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and the Unity Government to take steps to cancel the wasteful Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project which will cause irreversible damage to the environment and the fishing community. CAP welcomes the PM’s recent statement that he had concerns about the PSR project and...

The 71 conditions imposed on the Penang South Islands project would not ease the public’s concerns as they were all about mitigation, and comprised offset programmes that include setting up artificial reefs and fish aggregating devices which could not replace a complex ecosystem. “This is not a trade off, but a write off,” said SAM president Meenakshi Raman in an interview with Astro....

Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Asia and the Pacific’s Climate Bank – has invested at least 1 billion USD in waste incineration, including so-called “waste-to-energy” (WtE) incineration, as a recommended method for municipal solid waste management for its borrowing member countries. Despite documented negative impacts of WtE facilities on public health, environment, economy, and...

The massive reclamation should be scrapped as it does not serve its original objective of raising funds to finance the SRS PTMP. Instead, the 1,800 hectares three-island project appeared to be more of a property play for selected contractors and developers, Aliran said in a statement.  

Sahabat Alam Malaysia is shocked and outraged after learning that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the proposed reclamation and dredging works for the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project has been approved by the Department of Environment (DoE). We are appalled that the project has been approved despite concerns and objections raised by fishermen including PEN MUTIARA, the...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has backed the possibility put forward by an expert that parts of Seberang Prai, Penang, and other areas in the peninsula may soon be claimed by the sea if nothing is done to address climate change issues. The government at all levels – federal, state and local – must act with greater accountability, urgency and awareness of climate change as the time had come to...

In 2016, the then-government proposed to seize lands where big fires take place as a result of slash-and-burn re-foresting techniques often used by palm oil plantations. Unfortunately, the idea was dropped in 2020. The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the present government to consider adopting it as one of the measures for minimising air pollution and transboundary haze....