Category: Environment EN

"Developed nations have been shifting their responsibility for waste management to under-resourced nations," said Mageswari Sangaralingam of Consumers Association of Penang (Malaysia). "Besides dealing with our own waste, we now have to manage other people's waste which potentially leads to leakage into the environment. Plastic pollution does not respect borders. We must end waste colonialism,...

The street trees you plant today provide beauty and shade in the coming years. The safe, productive streets you build today support residents and businesses in the coming years. Planning cities is like planting street trees. (Source: Strong Towns)

Economic success and growth is all rich countries and their media ever talk about and never mention or admit that Earth resources are finite and they are killing Earth as a livable planet with more economic growth. (Source: Go Green)

In late January 2023, the Federal Court in a landmark decision, quashed a hillside development that was issued by the local authority in Penang. Federal Court judge Nallini Pathmanathan who wrote the unanimous decision, ruled that Section 22(2A) says that the development affecting hill tops or hill slopes is no longer merely an issue of local state governance, but is also a federal and national...

The Lynas rare-earth processing plant in Kuantan has had its licence renewed for another 3 years, subject to conditions including relocating the “cracking and leaching” facility, which produces radioactive residue out of Malaysia before July 2023. Do these conditions adequately address concerns over health and environmental safety? Mageswari Sangaralingam of Sahabat Alam Malaysia breaks down...

An Australian NGO has today issued a press release supporting Malaysia’s decision to stop Lynas from dumping more radioactive waste here.  The following is their full media release. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. MELBOURNE | Aid/Watch supports...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcome the Malaysian government’s move in not giving in to the pressure by Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd to revoke the previous operating conditions imposed in 2020, most importantly regarding shifting of the cracking and leaching process (which involves radioactive material) to outside of Malaysia. In a media statement...

Just stopping oil is not going to stop climate change or greatest mass extinction in 252 million years. We must also stop deforestation. Stop growing economies and start growing, saving nature. Stop globalisation. End billionaire class. Live with only law that matters – law of nature. Source: Go Green @ECOWARRIORSS