01/09/2010 01:35
SEREMBAN: Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan has denied that he wants the country’s first nuclear facility to be built in Port Dickson.
Mohamad, who was shocked when asked to respond to the claim, said he personally felt the resort town was not a practical site for the plant.
“This is...
25/08/2010 00:19
PORT DICKSON: The grapevine has it that the coastal town, once a bustling tourist destination but now in the throes of death, could be “nuked” by the government.
Talk is that Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Mohamad Hassan is seriously lobbying Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to site the country’s...
25/08/2010 00:13
KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd’s (TNB) Lahad Datu Energy Sdn Bhd will submit a revised detailed environment impact assessment (DEIA) report to the Department of Environment (DOE) for its proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Sinakut, Lahad Datu, Sabah.
In a statement yesterday, TNB...
25/08/2010 00:09
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 – A Sabah-based enviromentalist group has told the government to call off the proposed Lahad Datu coal-fired power plant after the Department of Environment (DOE) rejected the project’s detailed environmental impact assessment (DEIA) report.
Green SURF (Sabah Unite to...
25/08/2010 00:07
KUALA LUMPUR — Environmentalists have won a victory in a battle to prevent a coal-fired power plant being built in Malaysian Borneo, with a minister Thursday rejecting the plan due to environmental concerns.
Sabah state environment minister Masidi Manjun reportedly said proponents of the project...
12/08/2010 04:28
MALAYSIA’S practice of transforming forest reserves into rubberwood plantations has drawn the ire of the international forestry fraternity.
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) has adopted a resolution “opposing conversion of Malaysian native forests to non-native...
11/08/2010 00:29
Malaysia has taken steps to supplement supply of raw materials to the timber industry and reduce the industry’s dependence on natural forests.
This was in view of the requirement to set limits to logging in order to maintain sustainability of the forests, Deputy Plantation Industries and...
04/08/2010 05:31
KUALA LUMPUR: Some 90% of Malaysia’s corals are dead due to global warming, and the reefs may never recover unless the people switch to a greener lifestyle.
Universiti Sains Malaysia marine biologist Prof Dr Zulfigar Yassin said the lack of coral reefs, which provide a home to many marine species,...
04/08/2010 05:28
PETALING JAYA: There is likely to be a major power glut in Sarawak with the coming on stream of two major hydro power projects by the end of 2013 and the lack of firm commitments from investors to take the power up, industry players said.
There will be 2,400MW of capacity from the RM7.3bil...
28/07/2010 05:26
JOHOR BARU: Millions of ringgit pumped into river-cleaning projects in Johor over the past 10 years have literally gone down the drain.
Despite the massive funds from both the federal and state governments to deal with river pollution, there have been no obvious changes in the quality of the...
