The Kedah Government Should Not Log Trees In Water Catchment Areas

The Malaysian Bar:

Kedah Won’t Log Without EIA Approval
Friday, 27 June 2008 10:24am

©The Star (Used by permission)

ALOR STAR: The state government will not approve logging in water catchment areas until it obtains Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) approval.

Mentri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak said although the state executive council had greed to the logging, a final decision would only be made after the state received EIA approval.

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Our Comment:

1. The Kedah Government should not cut down trees in the water catchment areas in the State.

2. We fully agree with the objections made by Nik Aziz and Lim Guan Eng in this matter.

3. We are very disgusted that the MB of Kedah and his EXCOs have made such an unwise decision. Bearing in mind that the MB is a religious-educated person, he should guide his EXCOs to make a wiser decision in this matter and not based on emotions and duress.

4. The logging activity will pollute the water sources and the Environment in the Ulu Muda area. This will affect the water supply to the people in Penang (previously under Kedah's rule).

5. The reality of the slow economic situation in Kedah is due to their own mistake. In one of our rounds in the State, we heard in one of the Friday sermons in a mosque that the PAS members do not allow people to portray the picture of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah. They also do not like the Sultan. This is an insult to the Sultan and/or his picture. Just to share a true experience, we saw the picture of the Sultan coming alive in one of the supermarkets in the State.

For the record, Sultan Abdul Hamid is a pious man and a Saint. We are just asking the people to give due respect to the Sultan and not to make a 'shirk' practice out of it. That's all.

6. Let us remind the PAS members in Kedah specifically and across the nation generally that any insult to the DYMM SPB YDPA and the Malay Rulers (especially our families) dead or alive shall suffer the wrath of Allah s.w.t. This is because the Highnesses were/are the Heads Of Islam in Malaysia and the States respectively.

7. Let us also remind them that one of the 'karamah' of Sultan Abdul Hamid was that during his rule, when he entered a business premise and took something, if the owner did not object, then his business prospered. If the owner objected, then his business went bankrupt. So, in Kedah's case right now, Allah s.w.t. has 'qadha' them with a sluggish economic situation for their mistake and if they do not repent, then Kedah will not prosper under their rule. Period.

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