Kidurong state assemblyperson Chiew Chiu Sing turned emotional yesterday when relating the sad plight of longhouse residents suffering from health, environment and social problems caused by an aluminium smelting plant, about 38km from Mukah Town.

"Nothing of this sort ever occurred to them in their 20-odd years of stay there before the plant was built two years ago," he said during the debate on the motion of thanks on Yang di-Pertua Negeri Abang Muhamad Salahuddin Abang Barieng's opening address.