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| KURAUKING |
Posted - 08/13/2009 : 11:12:33
Dey, how you guys do work??? Tido kaa, see laaa now what had happen? First they kill the tress, then fishes, now human????
Drought-stricken rural folk in Sarawak now suffer severe skin problems
MIRI: Bathing and washing in polluted rivers and streams in drought-stricken rural Sarawak has become a daily ritual for those deprived of fresh water, but it can cause severe skin problems – as some natives have found to their distress.
People living in Long Bangga settlement in Ulu Baram district, some 13 hours journey by timber road from Miri, have reportedly suffered skin ailments which they have never encountered before.
Penan youth Pesley Mishak, who was recently sent to Miri Hospital for urgent treatment after his skin and flesh started peeling off, said he had been bathing in a river near his settlement since June because their underground wells had dried up.
“The river is very shallow and the water very muddy because of the dry weather. Logging activities upstream had resulted in a lot of mud and sand flowing into the river and the water had turned brownish.
“During certain times of the month, the water smells of diesel. We have no choice but to bathe in the river. There is no more ground water as it had not rained for weeks,’’ he added.
Pain and suffering: Pesley showing his skin after bathing in what used to be a clean flowing river near his home in Ulu Baram. With him at the Miri Hospital are his father Mishak and mother Guong Lusan.
Pesley, 22, was hospitalised for a month and was in great pain as even the soles of his feet were covered in sores.
His raw skins caused him pain whenever he tried to move his body or walk.
His father Mishak Kew said there were numerous river tributaries in Long Bangga that were also badly polluted.
“Every one of them looks like river of mud. The water is shallow and thick with mud and sand.
“We have no choice but to use it for bathing and washing, but not for cooking or drinking,” he said.
Mishak claimed that many others in Long Bangga village also suffered the same skin problems as his son.
In the meantime, firemen were quite successful in dousing the peat fires at the Sarawak-Brunei border.
It was less hazy over Miri yesterday, but the weather remained extremely hot and dry.
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| ziggerx |
Posted - 08/20/2009 : 14:27:24
Better go Berau...if lucky can get empurau 
  
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| KURAUKING |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 16:51:36
Apasal gemuk??? Lu Latuk Tiong punya kawan kaa??? Klu sarawak takde sebarau, mai semenanjung laa.......ahahahahaa...........
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Originally posted by ziggerx
KK... y r u not telling me this sooner... .
I dont have sebarau licence yet and they started killing those trees... Where else can i have my sebarau licence????  .
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| ziggerx |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 16:09:03
KK... y r u not telling me this sooner... .
I dont have sebarau licence yet and they started killing those trees... Where else can i have my sebarau licence???? .
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| kevinlw |
Posted - 08/18/2009 : 10:18:18
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Originally posted by Snook Hunter
KK
It is good that you highlighted this issue but blaming Sild is hitting below the belt la.
Like always there are a million laws, acts and policies in Msia, but enforcement is always lacking. Which white collar officers gonna drive hundreds of kilometer into the deepest jungle every week to monitor those guys? They prefer to stay in the airconditioned office and wait until someone complaints or the issue got blown up in the papers. The govt should use our army the rangers specifically to assist due to lack of enforcement officers.
I am still waiting for the govt to clean up Sg Gombak and Sg Klang so i can see Tengas and Lampam swimming around in clean water like what Singapore did with their rivers.
SnookHunter...that's why people lik RPK and the PR gang are willing to go to jail for...to remove these greedy "hungry ghosts in human form" out of office n give the land back to the people who knows best how to take care of it. People even die to try to achieve this. Anyway, if army cannot, got PFF ma.. Now got no job orredy since Chin Peng left Malaysia some time back. only do FRU back-up during 'erection' time |
| KURAUKING |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 19:52:58
Snook, those smart alekk are thinking that they are doing 'plantation' instead of 'dam' ma.....hahahaa.........
After burning can get baja...kakakaka.......
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| Snook Hunter |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 19:02:17
KK
I was shocked when i read the papers about the open burning in Bakun Dam! It doesnt make any sense!
Surely the tender commitee had vet through the method statement of the bidder before awarding the contract right? We cant accept this method because we will lose moral high ground when dealing with Indonesia on open burning and haze issue.
Why cant they just flood the dam like what China did with the Three Gorge Dam or Tasik Kenyir? The trees will eventually die and form snags for fish. This way everyone is happy. |
| KURAUKING |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 11:17:59
No worries snook, he knows i am joking with him. I am just trying to squeeze some infos out from him for my blog.....
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Originally posted by Snook Hunter
KK
It is good that you highlighted this issue but blaming Sild is hitting below the belt la.
Like always there are a million laws, acts and policies in Msia, but enforcement is always lacking. Which white collar officers gonna drive hundreds of kilometer into the deepest jungle every week to monitor those guys? They prefer to stay in the airconditioned office and wait until someone complaints or the issue got blown up in the papers. The govt should use our army the rangers specifically to assist due to lack of enforcement officers.
I am still waiting for the govt to clean up Sg Gombak and Sg Klang so i can see Tengas and Lampam swimming around in clean water like what Singapore did with their rivers.
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| KURAUKING |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 11:16:43
Ehhh guys, here they go again. They are doing it again. Get ready for a hazy ramadhan.....
NGOs against setting fire to timber-leftovers in Bakun
BAKUN (KAPIT, CENTRAL SARAWAK): Environmentalists are up in arms over the move by the developer of the Bakun Hydroelectric Dam project in central Sarawak to set fire to timber-leftovers in 64,000 hectares of logged territories in the Bakun reservoir - an area the size of Singapore.
Sarawak Conservation Action Network coordinator Raymond Abin told The Star Sunday, the network had gathered information that the burning of the timber-debris had begun in Bakun as a prelude to the impoundment of the dam and the eventual flooding of the reservoir.
“We (network) are shocked that the entire reservoir will be set on fire in order to clear all the leftovers to enable the the impoundment of the dam to be done.
More at :- http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/16/nation/20090816162721&sec=nation
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| JungleBum |
Posted - 08/17/2009 : 10:53:32
Some time ago, I was 'researching' on possible fishing spots in Sarawak (& Sabah), for a Borneo "HaveRodWillTravel" trip.
One of the guys made a statement: "When it comes to Sarawak rivers, they are owned by the timber tycoons lah. You need THEIR permission just to get in!"
Whether this is a fleeting remark or not, I donno lah, but I was sure demotivated after that!
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| Snook Hunter |
Posted - 08/14/2009 : 12:18:49
KK
It is good that you highlighted this issue but blaming Sild is hitting below the belt la.
Like always there are a million laws, acts and policies in Msia, but enforcement is always lacking. Which white collar officers gonna drive hundreds of kilometer into the deepest jungle every week to monitor those guys? They prefer to stay in the airconditioned office and wait until someone complaints or the issue got blown up in the papers. The govt should use our army the rangers specifically to assist due to lack of enforcement officers.
I am still waiting for the govt to clean up Sg Gombak and Sg Klang so i can see Tengas and Lampam swimming around in clean water like what Singapore did with their rivers. |
| Sild |
Posted - 08/14/2009 : 11:33:37
There are strict guidelines in opening an area for logging, for agriculture development etc. The are specific guideline by both Department of Environment (DOE) and DID. The approval process before a project is approved to undertaken is very stringen and not easy.
There are various physical, biological, socio economic and impact assessment mitigation measures to be precisely look at. And if there is any rivers or catchment in the proposed area, a Hydraulic Load Model and Erosion Modelling or assesment to be undertaken as well.
The impacts should be look at various scenarios such as existing conditions, operating conditions etc etc. and not easy; i've been doing these.
The socio economic impact for examples need to adress the potential impacts for the recipients (residents etc)which will tell the damged going to be felt by these local staying there.
I strongly belive it's very cruel to damage peoples's live and health by doing projects that did not have any mitigating measures like this one in Baram. Basically these people is not taking all the appropriate instruction, no sediment controls etc, no waste collection facilities etc.
The poor residents downstreams is suffering. In Borbeo they have this EPD (Environmental Protection Department?) similar to our DOE and their rules are more stringent than us (if i'm not wrong base on 1 or 2 cases).
But this is not the case here...very sad.
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| KURAUKING |
Posted - 08/13/2009 : 18:13:54
Ehhh, not Sild fault meeh. I tot in MFN if got any longkang sumbat, river or stream pollutions, all find Sild wan ma(pulling his leg only).....hahahaa.........
I agree with Tony, some dirty politician are getting richer while others are suffering....
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| lannun |
Posted - 08/13/2009 : 17:04:33
I agree with Tony....
and why la you get Sild involved with sumting he does not know anyting about....yennnada deii 
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| tonywee |
Posted - 08/13/2009 : 12:59:17
Hello KK,
I do not think Sild is involved lah. I blame the timber companies totally. As its said, "There is always enough for man's needs, but not for man's GREED." ... and of course, corrupt politicians are always in the background, if not right there in front.... just take a look at our own backyard, the PKFZ fiasco.
And thats one of the reasons why we started KAGUM .... unless we take care of our upstream rivers and the watersheds, not only the fishes and animals will suffer, we humans will finally be victims too.
ps. if I were a Penan, I'll choip off a few heads.
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