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SUSTAINABILITY IN SANDAKAN, A MERE UNFOUNDED DREAM

World town planning day and world Habitat Day have just passed us by,
The themes “The way forward in sustainability” and “Harmonious Cities”
Appear meaningless for Sandakan,
The acclaimed Nature City of Borneo.

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Dear Friends,

Please rally behind us against the setting up of a coal-powered power plant in Sandakan.

Let us make a strong stand together so that the authorities will start listening.

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/acpac08/petition.html

Please sign the Petition to vote against the Power Plant in Sandakan, Sabah!

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CLEAN COAL TECH –N0 -LOGIC

TNB and SESB is trying to convince Sabahan to accept coal power plant in the East Coast, not any part of the East Coast but in a location with infrastructure is in place, meaning nearest to the electricity Grip, fresh water supply, road, a sea front that they can land their coal and use the sea water for cooling purpose and waste disposal. That why they choose Silam and now Sandakan.

They claim they have many coal power plants operating in Senanjung, without environmental problem and using clean Coal Technology (CCT). They quoted Manjung in Perak, Tanjung Bin in Johore and Sejingkat in Sarawak.

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To all members .  NOTICE

DATE : 18th Nov 2008 Tuesday – go Kampung Baha……

PURPOSE : For campagin anti coal plant to the kampung folks

Time : 1.30pm sharp

Place meeting :  kopitam mile 9 Labuk road , sandakan , rain or shine .

Request : cameras , flyers , laptop + powerpoint

Others : sweets for the kampung kids : packet drinks for all : no free makan X .

Sponsor : own pocket .

Duration : max 3 – 4 hours

Medium : malay or suluk

Chief organsier : GG

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A secondary Open Letter  To:
Y.A.B Datuk Musa Haji Aman Chief Minster Sabah
All Cabinet Minister Sabah
All members of Parliament Sabah
All State Assemblymen Sabah

Yang Amat Berharmat and all Yang Berhormat of Sabah.

Re:     Objection on the Proposal of TNB on the implementation of Coal   Power in Sandakan.

Further to our open Letter CCC/SCTY2008/6-92 dated 4^th June 2008 pertaining to the subject and after utmost a consultation and study we reaffirm our stand to reject the proposal of implementation of coal Power Plant in Sandakan.

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Sandakan Anti-Coal Fired Power Plant Action Committee
29 September 2008
YB Datuk Masidi Manjun
Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment
Sabah, Malaysia

Dear YB Datuk,

Memorandum against Coal Fired Power Plant at Sandakan

We write to YB Datuk to kill the proposal by SESB/TNB on the setting up and commissioning of a coal-fired power plant in Sandakan. With the power invested in your portfolio as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, , it is now crucial and timely to voice out your objection to this miscalculated folly which will bring disaster to our beloved Nature City of Sandakan and the slow death of our children and grandchildren. This impending cumulative disaster will spare no one and we are at wit’s end; we need YB Datuk at this Dark Hour of Desperation to step forward and help us all, no ‘save’ is a better word.

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We, the Sandakan Anti Coal Power Plant Action Committee, comprises of 30 NGOs and together with all the rest of the environmentalists, echo with Tan Sri Bernard Tampok the minister in the Prime minister proposal to stop the transport of our natural gas from Kimanis, Sabah to Bintulu, Sarawak which is 500km away. We strongly support your good office and noble mission to make our natural gas remain in the possession of Sabah, to be fully utilised and enjoyed by our Sabah people.

We hope such natural recourses can be fully processed in Sabah and not only be utilised for the purpose of housing power in Sandakan but also to be used in other manufacturing industries in Sabah.

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Date : 6 November 2008

Press Statement

The Anti-Coal Power Plant action committee strongly condemns TNB and SESB for maintaining the secrecy of the site for the implementation of the intended Coal- Fired Power Plant until yesterday. The committee questions the professionalism of TNB & SESB on their integrity and their social duties in carrying out the project behind the back of the public. On one hand they informed the public that there is no intended site yet but on the other hand, many contractors have been appointed and are working on the “intended site”. We wish to remind TNB and SESB that there is no smoke without fire. Hence, there is no possible way for them to suppress the fact that the coal fire power plant is implemented by their apparent actions. We, the committee comprising of 30 NGOs and 30000 signatories of Sandakan, re-affirm our stand that no coal fire power plant is to be implemented in Sandakan and in particularly the existing POIC Site. The reasons for our opposition of this Coal Fired Power Plant are crystal clear and acknowledged by everyone in Sandakan, in particular:-

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Jawatankuasa Bertindak Pembantahan Membinakan Loji Jana Kuasa Arang Batu Di Sandakan
Sandakan Anti Coal Power Plant Action Committee

Block 47, Jalan Leila, CCC Building,
P. O. Box No. 161, 90702 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tel: 089-213371, 225861 Fax: 089-275861
E. Mail : sccc06@hotmail.com

The Prime Minister,
Dato’ Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi

The Deputy Prime Minister,
Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak

Prime Minister’s Department
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,
62502 Putrajaya
Date : 31^st October 2008

YAB Dato’ Seri,

We, the Sandakan Anti Coal Power Plant Action Committee, comprises of 30 NGOs and together with all the rest of the environmentalists, would like to appeal to your kind office to stop the building of the Coal Fire Power Plant in Sandakan which is environment damaging and replace with a Natural Gas Power Plant which is more environment friendly.

We also understand that on 31^st May during your recent visit to Sabah this year, Datuk Seri has announced the cancellation of the Natural Gas piping from Kimanis Sabah to Bintulu Sarawak which is 500km away. Why not divert our Sabah natural resources to the East Coast of Sabah which badly needed for power generation and industries use. We strongly support your good office and noble mission to make our natural gas resources remain in the possession of Sabah, to be fully utilised and enjoyed by our Sabah people.

Malaysia has a well-developed oil and gas sector and a growing petrochemical industry. A wide range of petrochemicals are produce in Malaysia such as olefins, polyolefins, aromatics, ethylene oxides, glycols, oxo-alcohols, exthoxylates, acrylic acids, phthalic anhydride, acetic acid, styrene monomer. Polystyrene, vinylchloride monomer and polyvinyl chloride.

Among the oil production states of Malaysia, we understand that Terengganu is having a full range of petrochemical downstream processing Plant while Sarawak is also having the third largest site of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing complex in the World after Algeria and Indonesia. The Bintulu complex produce 45000 mtpa for export and it also house the Asean Urea / Ammonia plant.

While Sabah is the potentially the biggest supplier of crude oil with a known reserve of approximately 2.2 billion barrels out of 5.4 billion barrel in Malaysia and 11.6 tscf of known gas reserve is timely to work on our resources to start a petrochemical plant in Sabah, thereby providing stimulus to a economy growth.

Sabah with well-developed oil and gas resources, we see no reason why we cannot divert our natural gas from Kimanis to the East Coast for power generation and industries use.

We propose a Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Pipelines can be build to bring the natural gas from Kimanis to Sandakan via Tawau, and Lahad Datu.

Beside power generation for Sandakan, Tawau and Lahad Datu, natural gas can be use as follows:

1. INDUSTRIAL USER

Compressed natural gas (CNG) cars and trucks are already on the road in many areas. Companies using industrial processes that require high temperatures are also turning to natural gas instead of other fuels in order to reduce the air pollution emitted by their plants.

This includes companies involved in manufacturing steel, glass, ceramics, cement, paper, chemicals, aluminium, retreated tires and processed foods.

In Sandakan, the palm oil refinery can convert diesel burning boiler into gas fired. POIC Sandakan Manufacturer, can promote the use of natural gas to power their plant and manufacturing purposes, cheaper, cleaner and more convenience to use.

2. AMMONIA /UREA PLANT

Sandakan import, thousands of tons of Urea and Ammonia based fertilizer for the palm oil plantation and glue manufacturing. Why not utilise our natural gas to produce these product for our plantation and manufacturing industries, saving million in foreign currency and giving job to our people.

3. HOME

Even though our population in the east coast is relatively small, it does not mean that we cannot benefit from the utilisation of the natural gas. Natural gas can be compressed into gas tank and can be widely distributed in these regions, saving million in transportation by road to bring the compressed natural gas from Labuan or Kota Kinabalu. Most the electrical item for heating purpose can be converted to natural gas, such as heated, oven and others.

With the Transmission and Distribution Pipeline, east coast industrialisation can be less dependable on electricity and natural gas being cheaper can help make our products more competitive. Therefore the question of power shortage is a thing of the past. We believe the construction of a Transmission and Distribution Pipeline is viable and a study and working paper should be done.

We wish to stress again to YAB Dato’ Seri the serious hazards coal can cause to the human health and the environment as a whole. Coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels that emits double the amount of carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels. In 300 Mega-watt coal power plant, two tons of carbon dioxide will be emitted more than the normal emission of carbon dioxide by other fuels of only 1 ton. This has added to the problems of global warming and acid rain. Sandakan has been proclaimed and certified to everyone as a “Nature City” and we intend to keep it this way. If coal is implemented, our preserved evergreen rainforest and the heritage of Orang Utans with world recognition will no longer exist. Not to mention Sandakan houses the important industry of fishery which is also the main food source and commercial driven industry in Sandakan and the emission of coal will definitely cripple this industry in the long run.

The rise of asthma attacks and respiratory problems are one of the many consequences of the emission of coal. Mercury, an element found in the emission of coal, is a developmental toxin, primarily affecting fetal development that can cause brain damage, mental retardation, blindness, and many other problems. We do not want or specifically, we do not want to create such problems to rise in the future particularly when our future generation will be affected. Till then, it will be too late to regret.

As such, we join hands with YAB Dato’ Seri to work towards creating a better place for our people and our future generation to live in. We the people of Sabah will forever be graceful and indebted to Dato’ Seri should you fulfil our request.

Thank you

Stephen Wong Tien Fatt
Chairman
ON and behalf of ANTI Coal Plant Action Committee

cc 1) YAB Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Haji Aman, Ketua Menteri Sabah

2) YB Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri

3) YB Datuk Liew Vui Keong, Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri Malaysia Merangkap Ahli Parlimen Sandakan

4) YB Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah, Ahli Parlimen Batu Sapi

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Yang Berhormat Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri
Jabatan Perdana Menteri
Aras 3, Blok Timur,
Kompleks Jabatan Perdana Menteri
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan
62502 PUTRAJAYA

Date : 21^st October 2008

Tan Sri Bernard,

We, the Sandakan Anti Coal Power Plant Action Committee, comprises of 28 NGOs and together with all the rest of the environmentalists, agree with your call to stop the piping of our natural gas resources from Kimanis, Sabah to Bintulu, Sarawak which is 500km away. We strongly support your good office and noble mission to make our natural gas resources remain in the possession of Sabah, to be fully utilized and enjoyed by our Sabah people.

We propose a Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Pipelines can be build to bring the natural gas from Kimanis to Sandakan via Tawau, and Lahad Datu.

The US relies on natural gas for nearly one-quarter of its energy needs, in home, businesses, industries and electric power generators. The gas–only-fire power generation plant account for nearly 19% of the fuel used for all generation nationwide. Natural gas moves through a nationwide (US) of 280,000 mile of transmission pipelines. These pipelines move natural gas from regions where it is produced, such as Gulf of Mexico, to market areas. The distribution pipeline in US are constructed, enough to go round trip between New York and Los Angeles more than 50 times, in order to bring natural gas to consumers. For our case we may need only about 1000km of pipeline.

Beside power generation for Sandakan, Tawau and Lahad Datu, natural gas can be use as follows:

1. INDUSTRIAL USER

Natural Gas is commonly use in power generation and home. Many countries that did not have these resources rely on import of natural gas, in the form of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), include Japan, Taiwan and Singapore.

Because natural gas is clean burning, it is being considered as an alternative fuel for motor vehicles. Compressed natural gas (CNG) cars and trucks are already on the road in many

areas. Companies using industrial processes that require high temperatures are also turning to natural gas instead of other fuels in order to reduce the air pollution emitted by their plants.

This includes companies involved in manufacturing steel, glass, ceramics, cement, paper, chemicals, aluminum, retreated tires and processed foods.

In Sandakan, the palm oil refinery can convert diesel burning boiler into gas fired. POIC Sandakan Manufacturer, can promote the use of natural gas to power their plant and manufacturing purposes, cheaper, cleaner and more convenience to use.

2. AMMONIA /UREA PLANT

Sandakan import, thousands of tons of Urea and Ammonia based fertilizer for the palm oil plantation and glue manufacturing. Why not utilize our natural gas to produce these product for our plantation and manufacturing industries, saving million in foreign currency and giving job to our people.

3. HOME

Even though our population in the east coast is relatively small, it does not mean that we cannot benefit from the utilization of the natural gas. Natural gas can be compressed into gas tank and can be widely distributed in these regions, saving million in transportation by road to bring the compressed natural gas from Labuan or Kota Kinabalu. Most the electrical item for heating purpose can be converted to natural gas, such as heated, oven and others.

With the Transmission and Distribution Pipeline, east coast industrialization can be less dependable on electricity and natural gas being cheaper can help make our products more competitive. Therefore the question of power shortage is a thing of the past. We believe the construction of a Transmission and Distribution Pipeline is viable and a study and working paper should be done.

We wish to stress again to Tan Seri the serious hazards coal can cause to the human health and the environment as a whole. Coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels that emits double the amount of carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels. In 300 Mega-watt coal power plant, two tons of carbon dioxide will be emitted more than the normal emission of carbon dioxide by other fuels of only 1 ton. This has added to the problems of global warming and acid rain. Sandakan has been proclaimed and certified to everyone as a “Nature City” and we intend to keep it this way. If coal is implemented, our preserved evergreen rainforest and the heritage of Orang Utans with world recognition will no longer exist. Not to mention Sandakan houses the important industry of fishery which is also the main food source and commercial driven industry in Sandakan and the emission of coal will definitely cripple this industry in the long run.

There are views which said coal power plants are implemented in other places and serious detrimental effects are not seen yet. Surely this cannot be a reason for the implementation of coal power plant. Serious effects are not seen yet but it is a guaranteed consequence. The rise of asthma attacks and respiratory problems are one of the many consequences of the emission of coal. Mercury, an element found in the emission of coal, is a developmental toxin, primarily affecting foetus development that can cause brain damage, mental retardation, blindness, and many other problems. We do not want or specifically, we do not want to create such problems to rise in the future particularly when our future generation will be affected. Till then, it will be too late to regret.

We, the committee representing the majority of the voices of Sandakan people, pledge to Tan Sri’s good office, to build a natural gas power plant in East Coast instead of a coal power plant since natural gas is considered to be a fossil fuel which is more energy-efficient, has lower carbon dioxide emissions of energy per unit and because it is suitable for use in high efficiency combined cycle power stations.

As such, we join hands with Tan Sri to work towards creating a better place for our people and our future generation to live in. We fully support and if necessary, lend our hands, to Tan Sri in making Sabah, the provider of natural gas, to be able to enjoy the most benefits out of it.

Stephen Wong Tien Fatt
Chairman
ON and behalf of ANTI Coal Plant Action Committee

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