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1) SAPP Plans peaceful demo

    before Cabinet meeting to protest

    Coal-Fired Power Plant

Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) intends to hold a peaceful demonstration before the State Cabinet convenes on Wednesday, to protest plans to build coal-fired power plants in Sabah.

SAPP Secretary-General, Datuk Richard Yong, expects more than 100 people to turn up for the protest, to be held at the road leading to Wisma Innoprise in Likas, here, where the Chief Minister’s Department is located, to reiterate objections to such plants because of their potential hazards to the environment.

Yong, accompanied by Vice-President Don Chin and assistant Secretary-General Foo Fook Ming and other SAPP Supreme Council members, submitted and application for a police permit to stage the demonstration at the Karamunsing police station, here, Monday.

If approved, the demonstration will be staged for about an hour from 9am.

"We urge the State Cabinet to cancel the proposed coal-fired plant in Sandakan as was done in the case of Lahad Datu in April," Yong Said.

SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee joined a peaceful rally at Seguntor in Sandakan last Friday to protest against a planned coal-fired power plant in the area, undertaken by Tenaga Nasional Berhad.

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2) YB ZAKARIA : CLEAN COAL

   TECHNOLOGY ???

Mungkin pihak tuan/ puan boleh mendapat maklumat terkini pada majlis seperti di bawah:

Majlis Taklimat Bersama Pemimpin Komuniti Di Sandakan

Tarikh : 19 Februari 2009

Masa : 8:30am – 2:00pm

Tempat: Dewan Sri Gum-Gum, Sandakan

ATURCARA:

8:30am   : Ketibaan dif-dif undangan

               : Minum pagi

9:30am   : Ketibaan YB Datuk Zakaria Mohd. Edris (ADUN N41 Gum-gum)

               : Lagu Negaraku dan Sabah Tanah air Ku

               : Doa

               : Sesi taklimat dimulakan:

                  · Taklimat status pembekalan elektrik di sabah oleh SESB

                  · Taklimat "CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY" oleh LDE

                  · Taklimat EIA oleh consultant

               : SESI SOAL JAWAB

12:30pm : Makan Tengahari

2:00pm   : Majlis dijangka selesai

 

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3) SACPPAC TELL SABAH GOV. : USE

    NATURAL GAS INSTEAD OF COAL

Use natural gas instead of coal : Group

SANDAKAN: The Sandakan Anti-Coal-Fired Power Plant Action Committee (SACPPAC) urged the State Government to use the State’s natural gas resources for a power plant in the East Coast.

The committee’s president, Stephen Wong Tain Fatt, said it fully agrees with Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman’s statement on Sunday that the electricity supply shortage in the east coast would affect the industrial development of the area, hence the need for a power plant there.

"We wish to reiterate that SACPPAC never objected to the construction of a power plant in Sandakan or anywhere in Sabah.  What we have been objecting to all this while is the setting up of a coal-fired power plant.  Our stand has been consistent all along – why not utilise locally available clean natural gas instead of dirty imported coal?"  he said in a statement, Monday.

On Sunday, Musa said a new-power generating plant was urgently needed as many industries, including the oil palm industry cluster project, were being set up on Sabah’s east coast.

He said at the next State Cabinet meeting, they will identify the best way to generate enough power and will also undertake short-term and long-term measures to overcome the problem.

The Chief Minister urged the people in the State’s east coast to accept the reality that a new power plant was necessary for the area, as it would not only benefit the industries but could also improve their economy with the creation of jobs and business opportunities.

Wong said the Chief Minister has himself last year said that the State Cabinet scrapped the proposed project (in Lahad Datu) as it did not want to risk the welfare and health of the communities in the area as well any adverse impact on the environment.

"The Chief Minister has rightly pointed out that a power plant in the State’s east coast would create more jobs and business opportunities.  In this respect, we wish to stress that a natural gas fired power plant will create equal job and business opportunities.

"In addition, a gas pipeline from Kimanis to the east coast will create even more downstream petroleum based industries and activities along the route of the pipeline," he said

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