VOXPOP 'The people in Jinjang have got no right to question... If you don't like the incinerator in your area, you can migrate to another country.'

Locals fume over new incinerator, launch petition

Toonarmy: This new incinerator in Kepong is payback for the horribly ungrateful Chinese, whom are expected to be perpetually grateful to Umno for unknown reasons. Didn't vote for BN? Then expect to have an incinerator in the neighbourhood.

Before it's ready, prepare to have sewerage ponds and new landfills come to the neighbourhoods of the ungrateful pork-chewing Pakatan Rakyat-voting ‘pendatangs'. Don't like it? Migrate lah.

Anonymous_40f4: Listen! Listen! Listen! The project as always has probably been long negotiated and awarded to someone's golf buddy. About the price, as usual it has a 50 percent inbuilt commission and the whole process is highly secret.

So the people in Jinjang have got no right to question the process. If you don't like the incinerator in your area, you can migrate to another country.

Just like the Lynas rare earth plant in Gebeng, there is no need for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report because this project involves VVVIPs.

Happy Malaysian: Kepong Jinjang Anti-Incinerator Committee chairperson Martin Shek is wrong. It is not that the greater the voice/signatures in their petition, the better the chances of engaging the government to relook the incinerator.

Actually your chance came and went, it was actually the case where the more the votes for the BN, the better your voice is. Now your voice is DAP and your invitation to DAP representatives is appropriate as now you want to know what can they do for you.

I must agree it's a strange place for an incinerator, but then maybe there is where most of the rubbish comes from, and by the way the places you mentioned where it will hurt most, is exactly where the BN faced a Waterloo.

Touche: Why can't they have the incinerator in, say Semenyih or Ulu Yam, where there are more cows than humans? Is there an agenda to have it in Kepong where it is densely populated?

Fourtan: Put the incinerator in Putrajaya, seriously. There is ample space, very low density population, requisite infrastructures in place, excellent transport and connectivity between the two major urban centres of Klang Valley and Seremban, lower land value, wind patterns that are likely favourable too (because it's not a valley).

Habib Rak: A balanced waste management plan is an ecosystem. It encompasses proper segregation, recycling and incineration. Within it the considerations of human health and cost are also balanced.

Thus, there is a place for incinerators in waste management. Where it should located is dictated by sound logistic and cost considerations. High density or low density is not the point because every life is precious and important. Safety is what is needed and there are methods to ensure safety factors are incorporated into incinerators.

Safety considerations must be balanced with the risk we face in all aspects of our life, such as traffic safety, smoking safety, common flu safety, etc. We risk life from all forms of safety considerations.

Thus, we must not amplify just one and forget the rest. With proper engagement with the public, an acceptable solution can be found for incinerators. Scare tactics are not the way forward but well-researched and informed decision-making is.

Well Thats Fantastic: Didn't the recent auditor-general's report say that the billions spent on existing incinerators were wasted money as no one is qualified to operate them?

KPNG: Good job, Shek. We must fight for our own well-being, not to mention stopping the wastage of building more white elephants.

Don'tLeaveName: Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng, please come to Mont Kiara and surrounding places which are very near to Kepong. These people are active in this fight for our environment and you will definitely get lots of support.

Senior: Kepong folk didn't vote for BN, so you think they will listen?

EGM over, but Chua-Liow feud still on

Senior: MCA president Chua Soi Lek and his deputy Liow Tiong Lai are two clowns, half a pound and 8 ounces, creating drama when the real issue is how to avoid MCA being a footnote in history.

Multi Racial: Just like their fellow BN parties, the outcome of MCA's extraordinary general meeting (EGM) does not matter much to Malaysians.

It is a game of evil versus evil. Whoever wins would still be a loss to us. Whoever loses is not a gain to us. This is probably one of the final few displays by MCA as the party dies.

Anonymous #06188481: They're just fighting to see who will profit and pocket the monies from the sale of MCA assets.

Fair Play: The last sentence of the article suggested MCA as 'Malaysia's second most powerful political party'. It's more like the nation's second most irrelevant political party.

MockingYou: Let the two leaders have a debate between themselves. The more stupid one becomes the president and the less stupid one becomes the sidekick.

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