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World Environment Day Message: It Costs the Earth: Calculate the True Costs now or Perish

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The pandemic we are facing is becoming endemic, meaning that it may stay with us forever (hopefully in a more controllable and less virulent form). And we will have to learn to live with nature and its many furies. We are a part of nature, NOT apart from nature. We think we are humankind and have become very arrogant about our cleverness and our abilities to do so many things without thinking...

World Environment Day: Support & Scale-Up Community-Driven Solutions

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For this year's World Environment Day, most of us, as in the previous year, are celebrating the day indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At times like this, we appreciate the outdoors more and are eager to get out to enjoy the environment and nature, which gives us much calm and joy. However, not all of us are fortunate to savour clear blue skies or clean air as what we sometimes encounter...

SUPPORT CALL FOR PENANG RECLAMATION PROJECT TO BE CANCELLED

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The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) support the call by Nurul Izzah Anwar, the Permatang Pauh member of parliament, for the Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project to be cancelled. We also wish to respond to the comments by Zairil Khir Johari, the Penang State Infrastructure and Transport Committee chairman yesterday, who among other things, claimed...

CAP: Halt the import of Live Cattle from Thailand

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The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the Department of Veterinary Services Malaysia (DVS) to immediately stop the import of live cattle from Thailand. The call is made in response to a local media report from Thailand that there is an outbreak of the lumpy skin disease among cattle pens in the country. According to the report more than 6,700 cows and buffaloes in 35 provinces in Thailand...

Quitters are winners

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In conjunction with this year’s World No Tobacco Day theme “Commit to quit”, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges: > Smokers and vapers quit their habit, not only because of the money they save but also not to jeopardise their health. The people should not let the tobacco industry use them as pawns to advance their business interests. > The government should not entertain...

Time to reduce water wastage to reduce painful water bills

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The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) says that it is time to reduce water wastage, not only to trim water bills but also to conserve our limited water resources. The primary reason is because Penangites have been over consuming processed water which is becoming a precious commodity. While the water catchment area is only 6 per cent of the land area of the state, the population of the state...

Historic victory: Judge forces Shell to drastically reduce CO2 emissions

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Friends of the Earth wins climate case against Shell The Hague, 26 May 2021 - For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing dangerous climate change. Today, as a result of legal action brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) together with 17,000 co-plaintiffs and six other organisations1 the court in The Hague ruled that Shell must reduce...

CAP: Accelerate laws to eliminate lead in paints

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Thirty years ago the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) made a call to the government to promulgate laws to eliminate lead in paints. Till today, we still find lead in our paints. In 1992, we found seven out of nine enamel paints tested to contain lead above 600 parts per million (ppm). The highest amount of lead in that study was 11,700 ppm. In 2016, a total of 39 samples of enamel...

Ensure Covid-19 vaccination hotline is speedy and effective

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On 23 May 2021 registration for the second round of opt-in AstraZeneca vaccination began for those aged 60 and above residing in the states of Penang, Johor, Selangor, Sarawak, and the W.P. Kuala Lumpur. This round of volunteer AstraZeneca vaccination seems to have come in a timely manner (even though only strictly for those aged 60 and above, at the moment) as 23 May also marked the highest...

Stop the culling of wildlife

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Sahabat Alam Malaysia is deeply shocked and disturbed by the recent shooting of a family of 20 dusky langurs (Trachypithecus obscurus) in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan on 20 May 2021 by the Negeri Sembilan Jabatan Perhilitan (wildlife department). SAM was alerted to a social media post uploaded by a person named Nurul Azreen Sultan about this incident that went viral bringing attention to the...

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