KOTA KINABALU: No decision has been made on relocating the controversial RM1bil coal-fired plant from the east coast Sandakan district.
Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman said the matter was still being studied by Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB).
“Let’s wait for them to complete their assessment on the matter first,” he told reporters Tuesday after launching a seminar on landslides and slope safety here.
Published: Tuesday June 30, 2009 MYT 2:15:00 PM
Last week state Industrial Development Minister Datuk Raymond Tan said that the coal-fired power plant project that was moved from Silam in Lahad Datu district to Seguntor in Sandakan would not proceed there as well.
Tan said the state government was listening to the protests of the people in Sandakan, particularly on concerns over the proposed plant being too close to conservation areas like the Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre.
He said the plan to put up the plant in Seguntor or the Sandakan Palm Oil Industrial Cluster was just a possibility that was being studied by project developers Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Tenaga Nasional Berhad.
Tan said Sandakan leaders including Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman have been receiving feedback from the people whose main concerns were the effects of a coal plant on various conservation areas.
He said there was no need for the Government to formally scrap it as the project initiators were studying suitable alternative locations for the plant after the state government scrapped SESB’s plan to set it up in Silam two years ago on environmental grounds.
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July 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
WHAT IS GOING ON???!!
What’s wrong with all our politicians??
‘Yes’ yesterday, ‘Not sure’ today, ‘Maybe’ tomorrow??
BN politicians should remember that 1 of the main reasons why BN lost heavily in the last General Election was because of Tun Abdullah’s ‘flip-flopping’ administration… Please don’t repeat the same mistake.
REMEMBER: Sandakan gave the BN 100% support in the last general election. I hope the Prime Minister will listen to the people and put some senses into his BN subordinates in Sabah.
AND ALSO REMEMBER what Y.A.B. Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Aman, the Chief Minister, HIMSELF said when REJECTING this project in Lahad Datu in 2008:
“After weighing the pros and cons, the Cabinet decided to SCRAP the proposed project, because we DO NOT WANT TO RISK the WELFARE AND HEALTH of the communities in the area [in Lahad Datu] as well as any ADVERSE IMPACT on the environment… I know some say with today’s technology, the proposed plant is safe and clean BUT some EXPERTS also DISAGREE.” (New Sabah Times, 3 April 2008)
So, given that strong view by the CM himself, WHAT ELSE IS THERE for SESB to ‘assess’??????