Penang's Greener and Cleaner Programme

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Pity some of these initiatives don't extend down to Batu Ferringhi....... the place is a dirty rubbish dump.

PakMike,

They do.

Cheers

costa

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PakMike,

They do.

Cheers

costa

Well I haven't noticed!!!

If anything, the beach has become dirtier over the past month, there are a lot more of those 4 wheel buggies screaming up and down the beach, and since the last crackdown a lot more illegal structures being built along the beach.

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Well I haven't noticed!!!

If anything, the beach has become dirtier over the past month, there are a lot more of those 4 wheel buggies screaming up and down the beach, and since the last crackdown a lot more illegal structures being built along the beach.

Dirty beaches with rubbish being strewn all over AND messy beaches with all those 4 wheel buggies & illegal structures are two different things.  I suppose your first post was solely meant for the former which I tend to disagree, so I replied you.  Well, I don't know which stretch of beach you are referring to but there are much better, quieter and cleaner beaches/seawater all the way up from Bayview to former Mutiara Resort.   Why not just avoid the beach you think is dirty and head to somewhere else?  As for 4 wheel buggies & illegal structures, I tend to agree with you as they are absolutely a menace.  I have even personally emailed my complaints followed by reminders few times to the MPs and the reply I received was "We are still studying the solutions to tackle the problems".  It has been months since then but no action being taken yet.    Perhaps, I should follow up with another email in near future!!   Like someone says, there will be no such problems if no demand from tourists and hoteliers.  So, who is going to be blamed?  And, 4 wheel buggies & illegal structures problems are not as simple as many people perceive to tackle as they entail racial & political complications. 

Perhaps, all expats in Penang apart from enjoying their retirement in this island, may consider doing their part voluntarily in helping to improve Penang by any means such as organising campaigns, educating locals, giving talks, channelling complaints of what you have seen to relevant authority instead of self-ranting etc.  (I really like the idea of Etherus in his other post about implementing the social development programmes in Penang).

Talking about dirty beaches, I came acorss another forum showing photos of dirty beaches near Kuantan in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.  It's a bit shocking to see rubbish being strewn all over and even the waters near the coast look murky.

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hi,

Something happening with the Sungai Pinang, maybe.


July 14, 2010 : Save Sungai Pinang: CAP
GEORGE TOWN (July 14, 2010): The government has been urged to salvage Sungai Pinang, one of the most polluted rivers in the country, which has been contaminated and neglected for more than 20 years.

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) said nothing has been done to curb the pollution all these years.

"Sungai Pinang is one among 12 dirty rivers in Penang and one of the most polluted rivers in Malaysia and Asia," CAP president S.M. Mohamed Idris said in a statement today.

He said stringent enforcement needed to be taken against an abattoir along the river. "If necessary the abattoir should be relocated to a site where its operation must not cause environmental pollution or threaten the livelihood of local communities and public well-being," he said.

He said investigations revealed that dumping of solid waste, oil and grease contributed to pollution of the water. He said the livelihood of more than 100 small fishers based at the river’s jetty had been threatened by the pollution.

"Previously the fishermen’s’ income could reach more than RM1,000 per month but now their income has dwindled to only RM600 to RM700 ," he said. According to the Department of Environment’s water quality index, least polluted rivers are categorised as Class 1, while the most polluted ones are Class 5. Sungai Pinang is in Class 4.

It has been reported that the Penang Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) has asked for about RM750 million in allocation under the 10th Malaysia Plan to implement works to revive the polluted Sungai Juru, which is graded as Class 3, and Sungai Pinang.
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TheSun
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=49399

Getting there, huh. It's a long, long haul.