SENTRY BOAT SAYS:

SENTRY BOAT, a commentator replies to “ADOI, CHE DET TALKING SAMPAH TOO”.

Che Det,

We are the beneficiary of the economic growth, thank you Tun for that, but PLEASE, when we talk about Waste Management, we flunk tremendously. Let's go down memory lane, - Pekan Anak Bukit (close to home) used to have a Pasar or Pekan NAD, locally known, open for business every Sunday Morning. When I was a kid, the rubbish, after the pasar nad was over in the afternoon, was collected by “sentry boat” then the Sanitary Board near the current railway track and either burnt or sent to dumpsite in Jabi. But now, 45 years have passed, the Pekan Nad moves behind the old dilippidated Majlis Bandaran Anak Bukit building, and guess what, the rubbish are still collected and sent to the dumpsite.

45 YEARS HAVE PASSED.

And now, Alor Star becomes Bandaraya and Anak Bukit is the Bandar diRaja and the Federal Government offices moved to Anak Bukit. Now, lets take a look back at the country's situation:

290 over dumpsites in the country

7 incinerators bought and none are working (public funds), 5 new (RM200 million, no track record)

1 transfer stations, 3 years completed, not working (public funds)

big incinerators - hundreds of millions spend (public fund)

9 new sanitary landfill (290 million, public funds)

Another RM250 million a year to rebrand this service into 2 sector, policying (police) and operation (operators). Wonder who is going to take responsibility when the judge and the accused is sitting on the same side. Did anyone ever wonder how much is RM250 million divided over by the 18000 tons/ day of waste generated? That is RM38 per ton or RM648,000 per day for just employing and monitoring about 2000 to 3000 person per day. If this amount is being trickled down to the real operators, the country would have sparkling clean couple with the cukai pintu being collected by the municipalities.

"Corporate games" of David Cooperfield have to go. "Vegetation" carpet and green facades does not eliminate problems, but rather procrastinating the "time bomb". Our far sighted PM talks about transformation, reduction in GHG, Renewable Energy, recycling, resource recovery, rakyat didahulukan etc., these words are mere RHETORIC when certain privileged persons were given the "fast track" in so called solving environmental issues and taking advantage of the unsuspecting public chasing the stock market returns through "the story lines" in the media. A very pathetic situation indeed. And this will not go far in building our capital market to be ready for developing Green Initiative market.

When over 90% of the NEM is expected to be PFI driven, and yet there are more announcements of public spending in the certain projects even if they are ways of solving it without the good public and limited fund being used.

So Che Det, there's more to talk, but lets look at the basic challenge, Rakyat di Dahuluklan, Kejayaan di Utamakan, means the HIJRAH needs a Mind set Change and Political Will.

SentryBoat.

December 13, 2010 8:41 AM