Najib! Solve your own Water problem first lah!

Pahang govt in contempt of Federal Court Ruling!

Are the Courts now useless and powerless to enforce the law? The Pahang govt is spitting in the face of the Federal Court Judgement and there is nothing the Courts can do about it??

PETALING JAYA: The 55-year-old retiree who threatened to commit suicide by fire has called off his plans following pleas by his friends and family who feared for his life.

Gan Ee Seng, who had announced his decision to self-immolate in protest over the Pahang state government’s refusal to honour a over RM70-million court ordered compensation to a company he invested in, said he may pay the state’s Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob a visit at his home instead.

“Actually I felt that I want to burn myself today but I won’t. I was warned and advised by police and friends not to do so and… I have agreed,” Gan told reporters at the clearing in Padang Kota, Kota Damansara.

A number of plainclothes police were seen monitoring the situation this morning.

Gan, who had heart problems and diabetes, had begun his hunger strike on Monday and was hospitalised yesterday after he collapsed at the tent he was camping at. Today, he said he would not continue his hunger strike as well.

It was learnt that Gan’s wife and children, had wept and pleaded with him last night to change his mind about killing himself. They had known about the hunger strike but only read about the suicide plan in the papers yesterday.

“My family, my wife, she said they want to come to stop me, but I told her better don’t come. I told them not to worry, I just don’t want her to see me like this,” he said.

Gan said he owed many friends and family money because of this case and has been depressed for some time.

Gan said he called off his plan also because he was reminded not only that an attempted suicide was an offence, but his actions may affect others.

“I may continue my campaign in Kuantan, I may go to the front of his (MB’s) house, maybe burn myself there, I don’t know yet,” he said.

“I just want Pahang people to know, Malaysians to know, that the MB is no different from a pirate.

“If someone comes into your house in the morning and takes your possessions, will you keep quiet? Is it because your fists are larger that you can bully us?” said an weary but emotional Gan.

‘Will stop if BN loses’

Gan said if Pahang government can be so lawless, what was stopping other states from being so. “Which investor would want to come to such country?”

Gan said he may stop all campaigns when the BN government loses in the next general election.

Meanwhile, Seruan Gemilang Makmur Sdn Bhd former director Lee Sin said the group had calmed Gan down last night at the hospital.

“We already calmed him in hospital, we were so afraid and worried for him. He later only really realised that this is not the correct way,” said Lee.

Kuantan-based Seruan Gemilang had in 2002 sued the state for breaching a logging contract in which Seruan Gemilang claimed it was issued a permit to clear 8,000 acres of forest in Pekan, said to be owned by Pahang Umno.

In 2007, the Kuantan High Court awarded RM37,127,471.60 in damages with 8% interest per annum backdated to Dec 31, 2000. In total, the amount due to the company is now over RM70 million.

The award was retained as the Federal Court denied the state government’s application for leave to appeal against the May 2007 decision.

Since then, Seruan Gemilang had repeatedly attempted in vain to compel the state to pay up, including resorting to holding demonstrations, appealing to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and even holding a hunger strike relay last year.

Is this the most efficient govt approval in Malaysian history!

Really how do you go through 1123 feedback properly within 4days and approve their temporary operating licence?!

This is wrong!

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The Bar Council demanded today Putrajaya revoke or at least suspend a temporary operating licence (TOL) to Lynas Corp, saying the move was “hasty” and reckless.

Its president Lim Chee Wee urged the federal government to take steps for a meaningful consultation with those likely to be most affected by the rare earth factory in Pahang, especially since a detailed environmental impact assessment (EIA) has yet to be released on the project’s radioactivity and potential hazard risks.

The lawyer was responding to news reports that radiation regulator, the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB), had approved the TOL on January 30 despite receiving feedback amounting to 1,123 instances over the course of just four days objecting to the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) starting up in coastal Gebeng.

“The only natural conclusion is that the whole public consultation process is a sham and charade, in contravention of one of the recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s report dated June 30, 2011, which the government had pledged to comply with; namely, to inform interested and affected parties of the regulatory requirements, and to involve them,” he said in a statement today.

Lim also questioned why the federal government had not complied with obtaining a detailed EIA first before awarding the TOL, as per procedure.

“Hasty issuance of Temporary Operating Licence to Lynas without proper consideration of public feedback smacks of recklessness,” he said.

The AELB granted a TOL to Lynas for its RM2.5 billion rare earth plant in Gebeng on January 30, nearly a year after sustained public protests.

Lim, in a statement today, called the public consultation process “a sham and charade”. — file pic

AELB’s decision will finally allow Lynas to fire up its controversial refinery, which has raised fears of radiation pollution among residents of the east coast state and environmentalists.

A civil society movement called the Stop Lynas Coalition had strongly criticised the decision, highlighting the health and safety questions left unanswered by the Australian miner’s unresolved permanent disposal facility for radioactive waste.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai had also thrown his support last Sunday for the government to disclose the details of the license.

Lynas Corp, among the world’s biggest producers of rare earth metals, which are crucial to the manufacture of high-technology products ranging from energy-saving light bulbs to smartphones, has been trying to break China’s stranglehold on the global supply chain for the past few years.

Its factory in Gebeng is touted as the world’s biggest.

Plans to start operations in September last year were scuppered when Putrajaya bowed to public pressure and put the project on ice pending a review by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a United Nations watchdog.

Lynas Corp said last week it expects the start of operations to be delayed to the second quarter from the first quarter of this year.

The plant will be monitored for the next two years during which Lynas must meet safety requirements before AELB issues a full licence to ramp up operations.