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“ Risks from Coal Burning REAL. Stop the INTIMIDATION !
A certain assemblyman attempted to intimidate the masses as reported in a local newspaper recently : “Don’t blame Govt for power woes if …..” .
It bemused me to note the limited viewpoints expressed by the mal-informed assemblyman.
The concern and evidence-based details highlighted by the Sandakan Anti-coal Fired Power Plant are both real and worrying.
The world wide concern in many parts of the coal using countries are testimonies of the real threats and risks posed by the dangerous emissions of coal plants. Many countries are halting or opting for green alternatives or alternatives that are less damaging with much lower level of emissions.
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Raymond Tan, elected by the Sandakan people to represent them, owes the people an explanation and an apology. As recently as two weeks ago he was still saying that this project has not been confirmed and said nothing about the contract having been signed already.
As representative of the people he should keep the people closely informed instead of pulling the wool over their eyes all the time.
He should now apologize to the people and as our representative, he should execute our wish and in his capacity as DCM and Minister in charge of Infrastructure, exercise his authority to stop this project!!
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It is most heartening to watch the many children joining in the protest against the coal-fired power plant. Unless one is blind one should see that the whole world is against this most damaging power plant.
While the federal and state ministers, among other dignitaries, were showing off and celebrating the natural beauty of Sandakan during a Bird Fair held in Sepilok were they thinking of doing it for the last time?
Put up the coal-fired power plant and this will become true. Not only will there not be any more birds to watch but eventually all animal lives, marine lives, all other form of lives including human lives will be affected. Is this what we want ?
Of course we are not talking about the immediate effects as there will be none but in the long run our children and grand children and all future generation will live to suffer the consequences of our doing. Let us all do the right thing to safeguard the environment for future generation who are our hope of tomorrow.
STOP THE COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT
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BEIJING – THE number of Chinese babies being born with visible birth defects has surged 40 per cent to about 300,000, a government report said, and officials said pollution could be the cause. The rate of visible deformities among newborns in severely polluted China – home to 16 of the world’s 20 dirtiest cities – has leapt from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 per 10,000 last year. And when defects which cannot be seen, such as heart problems, are taken into account, 1.2 million, or 6 per cent of the 20 million children born annually in China, are affected, a trend that threatens to hobble the country’s socio-economic development. These startling statistics were revealed by Mr Jiang Fan, deputy head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, in a recent speech at a conference in south-western Chengdu. Driving home the severity of the point, he said this meant that ‘a baby with birth defects is born every thirty seconds’, and that almost one in every 10 Chinese households is affected. China’s rate is dangerously near the top end of global figures.
The World Health Organization estimates about 3 per cent to 5 per cent of children worldwide are born with birth defects. Mr Jiang said almost a third of the affected babies would die, 40 per cent would be ‘disabled’, while a third would be able to enjoy ‘a fairly good quality of life’, as long as they received early treatment. Beijing has already decreed that pollution emissions must be cut by 10 per cent by 2010, but the commission’s findings can only add urgency to the country’s efforts to clean up its polluted air, water and soil. Otherwise, as Mr Jiang said, the upward trend of birth defects will have serious consequences for China’s socio-economic development. He said that caring for affected infants already costs ’several hundreds of billions of yuan’, and warned that if the problem is left unchecked, China would ‘face the hidden danger of a loss of labour population’.
‘Birth defects directly affect the rise of China’s comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness, and the economy’s continued development,’ he added, calling on medical authorities to better educate potential parents and increase spending on prevention and screening. Mr Jiang did not go as far as to blame the surge in birth defects exclusively on pollution, saying there are many and complicated causes.
But an official with Shanxi province’s family planning authority, a major coal-producing region and one of China’s most polluted areas, told state media this week that statistics for his province demonstrated a direct relation between pollution and birth defects. Mr An Huanxiao not only said that high rates of birth defects clustered around badly polluted areas in Shanxi, but also pointed to the fact that in eight of the province’s coal producing areas, the number of birth defects is clearly higher than the national average. At the same time, however, Mr An said that poorer, rural areas and places with low education are producing higher than average rates of birth defects. |
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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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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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