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Projek babi diteruskanI

Oleh ZABRY MOHAMADdan ROZILAN SALLEH

SHAH ALAM 8 April- Kerajaan eam-puran Parti Keadilan Rakyat (P:llli), DAP danPas negeri Selangor tetap meneruskan projekternakan babi moden di negeri itu walaupunmendapat bantahan pelbagai pihak termasukpertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO).

Menteri Besar Selangor, Tan Sri AbdulKhalid Ibrahim berkata, barisan Exco negeriYang bermesyuarat Rabu lalu merasakan amatwajar untuk meneruskan projek berkenaanmemandangkan kawasan tersebut telah men-jadi tapak utama ladang babi di negeri itu.

Beliau mendakwa projek bernilai RMlOOjuta yang akan dilaksanakan di Sepang itusebenarnya telah diluluskan pada 30 Januarilalu oleh kerajaan negeri sebelum ini.

Kenyataan Abdul Khalid itu bercanggah de-ngan pengumuman Ahli Exco Selangor, TeresaKok kelmarin bahawa kerajaan campuran ne-geri barn meluluskan projek membangunkanl'!rlang babi bemilai RMlOO juta di Sepang.

. Isu babl Selang~r - M.uka4, 5Berikutan kenyataan itu, orang ramai serta

beberapa persatuan pengguna membantahdan .I1lenyifatkan keputusan kerajaan negerisebagai tidak.menghormati sensitiviti rakyat

Abdul Khalid seterusnya berkata: "Keraja-a1\ negeri berharap pihak yang begitu priha-tin mengenai kelulusan projek ternakan babidi Selangor memeriksa fakta mereka terlebihdahulu.

"Projek di Ladang Tumbuk, Mukim BatuKuala Langat ini telah diluluskan oleh kerajaannegeri yang dipimpin oleh Menteri Besar sebe-,lumnya, Datuk Seri Dr. Mohamad Khir Toyo,"katanya pada sidang akhbar di sini hari ini.

Semalam pula Pengerusi J awatankuasaPemodenan Pertanian, Pengurusan SumberAlam dan Pembangunan Usahawan negeri,Yaakob Sapari dalam nada berbeza menjelas-kan, projek penternakan babi itu adalah rkesinambungan kerajaan pimpinan Barisan --;Nasional (BN) 'dan masih belum diluluskan :oleh kerajaan negeri sekarang. ,

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Katanya, ketika ini, projek ftu ydng,per-nah ditolak oleh Majlis Tindakan EkonomiSelangor (MTES) akan dikaji semula bagimemastikan hanya mereka yang benar-be-nar mengusahakan ladang babi menyertaiprogram penternakan moden berpusat itu.

"Saya diamanahkan untuk mengkaji.ba-lik isu ini bagi memastikan semua penter-nak babi di Selangor terlibat dan selepasladang moden ini diluluskan, tidak ada lagiladang ternakan babi lain di mana-manakawasan di Selangor," kata Yaakob.

Sehubungan itu, beliau akan menemui .semua penternak babi di Selangor danmembawa perkara berkenaan ke MTESuntuk diluluskan sebelum dibawa ke me-syuarat Exeo.

Sementara itu, projek penternakan babidi Sepang itu turut mendapat sokongandaripada tiga anggota Exeo Pas Selangor.

Projekbabi diteruskan Alam Sekitar.Menurutnya, sebarang bahan buangan

dari ladang itu nanti akan diproses kepadabentuk biogas untuk menjana elektrik danair bagi kegunaan semula ladang.

Justeru, jelas beliau, tiade bahan bua-ngan akan menjadi sisa dan keluar dariladang itu.

Ditanya sama ada beliau didesak olehpihak-pihak tertentu untuk meneruskanprojek berkenaan, Abdul Khalid menm-kannya.

"Kerajaan negeri berhasrat menyelesai-kan masalah perniagaan, sosial dan buda-ya masyarakat pelbagai kaum dengan me-luluskan projek ini.

"Kita mahu melaksanakannya denganadil dan saksama serta mengambil kirakeharmonian hidup berbilang kaum diSelangor," katanya.

Mereka ialah Penge~si JawatankuasaPendidikan,Pendidikaii TinggLdan Pem-bangunan Modallnsan 'negeri, .Dr.Hali-mah Ali, PengerusL Jawatankuasa HalEhwal Islam, Mat-AdahMelayu, Infras-truktur dan Kemudahan, ,i\.wam .negeri,Datuk Dr. Hassan Mohamed Ali dan Pe-ngerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahall; Pengu-rusan Bangunan dan Setinggan, Iskandar'Abdul Samad.

Dr. Halimahyangjuga Timbalan Penge-rusi Lujnah Perpaduan Nasional Pas.Pusafberkata, Pas menyokong projek itu selagi iatidak meneemarkan alam sekitar.

Pada sidang akhbar itu, Abdul Khalidturut menjelaskan, semua ladang babi diSelangor yang beroperasi di luar kawasan

tersebut akan ditutup dan dipindahkan kesitu bagi menjadikannya pusat setempatternakan babi.

"Prosespemindahan ini dijangka mema-kan masa enam bulan hingga setabun.

"Kos mendirikan ladang pula akan di-tanggung oleh para pemilik ladang danbukan kerajaan negeri," ujarnya.

Pada masa yang sama, tambah beliau,kerajaan negeri tidak akan meluluskansebarang permohonan untuk membukaladang babi baru.

Beliau memberitahu, ladang ternakanbabi moden itn bakal memenuhi piawaiankualiti tinggi selaras dengan kehendak Ke-menterian Pertanian dan Industri AsasTani serta Kementerian Sumber Asli dan

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Projek ladang babi diteruskanOleh NORLIDA AKMAR IDROSnorlida. idros@kosmo.com.my

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sHAH ALAM- Kerajaan Selangorakan meneruskan projek ternakanbabi moden bernilai RMlOOjuta diLadang Tumbuk, Mukim Batu, Kua-la Langat, Sepang dekat sini wa-laupun menerima tentangan hebatsebahagian rakyat negeri ini.

Menteri Besar, Tan Sri AbdulKhalid Ibrahim berkata, pihaknyamerasakan projek berkenaan yang

telah diluluskan oleh kerajaan negeriterdahulu di bawah pimpinan DatukSeri Dr. Mohamad Khir Toyo pada30 Januari lalu itu wajar diterus-kan.

"Apa yang akan kita buat adalahdengan memantapkan lagi prosespelaksanaan projek ini denganmenggunakan teknologi termoden,"katanya sambil menyatakan kelu-lusan meneruskan projek itu dipu-tuskan pada Majlis Mesyuarat Ke-rajaan Negeri Rabu lalu.

Beliau berkata demikianpada si-dang akhbar selepas menerima kun-jungan rasmi daripada Menteri Be-sar Perak, Jr. Mohammad Nizar Ja-maluddin di Bangunan Sultan Sa-lahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (SSAAS)di sini semalam. .

Abdul Khalid berkata, para pen-duduk tidak perlu risau dengan ke-putusan itu kerana tiada bahan bua-ngan atau najis yang akan dike-luarkan dari ladang tersebut.

Sebaliknya, beliau memberitahu,

semua bahan buangan dari ladangt~rnakan itu akan digunakan semuladalam bentuk biogas bagi menjanatenaga elektrik, air untuk pember-sihan ladang selain penanaman ma-

'. kananuntuk keperluanbabi.Menurutnya, dengan tersedianya

ladang ternakan babi moden 'ter-sebut, selIma ladang ternakan lain dinegeri itu akan diarah tutup untukdipindahkan ke Ladang Tumbuk, Se-pang.

"Setakat ini kita menerima mak-

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lum balas yang bail<:daripada se-bahagian besar penternak babi se-luruhSelangor yang bakal menjadipelabur dan rakan kongsi dalam pro-jekini," katanya.

Tambahnya, kerajaan negeri me-merlukan tempoh dari enam bulanhingga setahun untuk menyelesai-kan segala proses penyediaan ter-masuk mengadakan perbincangandengan semua penternak negeri itusebelum projek ladang ternakan di-muhikan.

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percuma--MBSHAHALAM- Selepassemua sa-

man dan notis kompaun tempat le-tak kereta dan penjaja, dibatalkan,rakyat. Perak mungkin akan me-nikmati bekalan air percuma se-hingga 20 meter padu sebulan se-perti Selahgor.

Menteri Besar Perak, Ir. Moham-mad Nizar Jamaluddinberkata; pi-haknya akan membuat kajian me-nyeluruh berhubung pemberian dis-kaun terhadap bekalan air denganmengadakan pertemuan dengan pi-hak pengurnsan Lembaga Air Perak(W).

"Kita telah berbincang dengan be-

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berapa pegawai atasanLAP ulitll.kmengetahui kesan ekoran pembe-riandiskaun bekalan all-kepada se-luruh rakyat Perak:' katanya.kepadp.pelllberita,

Beliau .berkata demikian 'pada si-dangakhbar selepas mengunjungiMenteri .Besar 8elangor, Tan SriKhali,<lII:Jrahimdi,Bangumm SultanSaiahuddin AbdulA~izShah (SSA-AS) di ~ini~eIp&am;: "

K,ata MgharnmadNi7ar,keputll-~an,pemberianbekaiari air percwnapada masa ini adalah' terlaiu 'awaikeranabarisan Exco baru sahajadilantik pl:ldaminggu lepas.

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Bagaimanapun, beliau berjanji-akan meneliti perkara itu clan akanmembuat pengumuman sarna, adaakanmembuat keputusan sarna de-ngan Selangor atau sebaiiknya.

Bekall:lfi air percuma untuk 20m~terpadu'yang ,pertamamerupa-kan s~bahagian daripada janji ma-,nifestopililwnraya yang dikelllu-

'kakan oleh Parti Keadilan Rakyat(PKR) semasa kempen Pilihap.RayaUmum Ke-12.,'+,Dalamperkembangari lain, Mo-

" nammad Nizai' meinberitahu,Perakkini st:;dangdalam perbincangan un-tuk membeiWkan air ke Selangor.

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ABDUL.KHALID (kanan)bj!rsalamandengan MuhammadNizardi Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah di Shah Alam semalam.

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Dispute overstate pigfarm project

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.By Neville Spykerrtum ment.was merely carrying out aneville@nstcoTrJ,my '. project that hacibeen approvedby

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SHAHALAM:Was the proposed "Wefeel the project should beRMIOOmillionpigfarm in ~epang carried out becauSe the location

. approved by the 'previous Stati:} site is the maiilpig-breedingareagovernment?' .' inthestate,"hesaid.

Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul,,", TheprojectwillcomplywitlltheKhalidIbrahimsaid it was,but hisfiighest standards set by the c

predecessor Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Agriculture and Agro-Based In-KhITToyo said his I:}}{CO"had only' dliStryMinistry as wellas the Na,t~discussedit':. '.- . ural Resources IlI1dEnvITonment

"No fuStJ;.uctions or approval Minisjry;andthe state govern-were given30r th.eproject, aI-, ment.'.' . . .though dj$cUsSionswere held by All waste from the project fadli~the stateexcoonJan 30,'!saidDr . tYwillbe recycledmto biogastoKhir. ,He said he opposed the pro" generate electricity, water for thejectbecause it.w;:tStoo large' and facility and compost to grow feedtltere were objections from the f()i the pigs.coiIununfty. " . "There will be no <J-is~hargeof

He addedthat the previousgov- waste fromthe facility,"he said.ernmeiit's policywas to allow no At the s<!"metime, no,new pigmore than 250,000 animals to be farms will be approved in thebred, to caten-tothe Iieeds o(the- -state,andalle#StingfaI:mswillbepeopleofSelangor;- . requirl:}dtq moveto thevicinityof

"Weopposebreedingfore"port -, the project. ,or for sale in other states;" ,.~- > He said the state;governmenC

'Yester(iay"Khalid took critics. of would solve allproblems related tothe centi-aliSed pig farming pro- the project, and treat the concernsject in Ladang'TrnnbUk, Kuala ofallracesfairly:' .Langat, t() task and urged them to Khalid said incentivi:}swould becheckthelrfacts. . provided to pig farmers to move

Criticsof the project, including their operationstothe site.non-governmental organisations, ' "Theywillbe giventhe opportu-yesterday claimed the :Pakatan nity to invest-in the project, andRakyatstate governmentwas not their current~farms call be usedsensitiveto the en~onment an.d for other agr~cultUralpurposes."called for the project to be He sai9-the project woUldtakescrapped,' 'c. between six months and a year to

Khalid said the state govern- implement.' ,

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Tf!E;~4!?tlrigJtlyaMtlnicip~kF()uncil.(MPSJ)9J1~st' , ork,af'the Kinrara Business; Centres&. ,ii1!j<1l~m"fuchO~~S'th<1t"Wits'hi1:byflii.,:,~~Qnesday. ,"" , "

" " ers'were seen building a retaining waUand widening the main drain in the area.

Kinrara;issemblyman Teresa Kok's s~cre-rary, Tey Khang Fai" said he was glad thatprompt action was taken by the Iocal ~°l!ncil,just four days after the floods. "

"On the night of the floods, Datuk AdnailMdlkhsanand his men came to inspecfthe area to

, identify the ~u~~ ofthe problem and howtheY'fe wprking to rectify it," said Tey.

Tey alsQ added that the Public ,WorksDepartment UKR)'has also started work onwidening the drains along jalan Puc:hQl1gas

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Ahis::felltiHci~hht~l~ jOrisdiction.Ko'k's speci.ll assistant Gary Chong said the

retainingwaH should be completed within a '

week while the drains might take a bitlonger. ,-

"The business operators Jeported damagesamounting to nearly RMtOO,OOOas a result ofthe floods and hence we are looking at a long-term solution here,"s.~id Chol1g.

Kok ,said the immediate action taken indi~cated a positive sign and they hoped to coop-erate more with the localc:ouncil to ensure

thatthe ne~ds of the public were met.". will continueJo help the residents in

the area ih solving their issues, stich asbattling crime, and other, pertinent matters,"she said.

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Resc,u, squad aR,~~"'TI-I~,ri..Mpni~le,~!:~~ouis expeC:te:(I...~ocstion ,nextrnol1th;

The squad, comprising 21, councilvOlunteers, would be the

first response team to conduct..rescue operations in the absence

...of the relevant government res~cue personnel. '

The squad is undergoing acomprehensive rescue trainingcourse under the Bukit Jel!Jtong

, Fireand Rescue Departmept.They an~;,expe'cted to begin, op-

erations following the comple-tlon of their training on M~y8,

/after which they will be dividedinto three groups. ,

An'MPSJspokesman told TheMalay MaKthat thec;ouncilmooted the idea because of the

unpredictable weather over the

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IN THE DEEP.END:Members of the MPSJ'squad training for water rescues

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o!JJemergency response stafFtor~scuers,!' the spokesman said.

. The counciL obtained approvalfor the forl1J~tjon of the squadlastyear.:, .

Basic'training began lastmonth after the 21 volunteerswereidentified... .

They will be trained in fire andwater rescue, including at em;bankments and tallbLJildings. ..

"Wewill widenthe trairijng.. scopeJo5nCludemedical'aidanddivingskills." ,

. Duringnatutaldisastets, the, hotline unit would',alertthe

councIl, after which the rescuesquad would be'sentto thescel}e.

lastthree years, which had res-ulted in flash Hoodsand othernatural disasters...

~Thesquad, he said, .wasanextension of the council's hotline

, unit.

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.-pnce tQe\fE!le~aril:aLJthQritiesisucn,as the: Firea'~d,Rescue De-'. c' ., '''. 'C'

paitme nt/arrive, Ol1sceh'e,therescue.sq'uadwol.I'rd assist the'lat;"ter.,

H&wever,the rescue s_qU!idwoUl'cf not be limited to areas

. withjh.M PSJ's jurisdiction."Although the main aim is to

ensure the safety ofthe COITI-munitie~\jn Sri Serdang~ SubangJaya,Kin'r~ra and Sri KE!mbangan',the council would not think twice

about sendJng the..squad to other.. districts or States," thespbkes-

man added. ,

The rescue squad wiUbe man-agea by the council's natural'dis~aster department, under the pur-view of MPSJ vice-pre~ident

. ,Muhammad Yusoff Ghazali and its

corporate planning departrrient., By DARSHINIKANDASAMY

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SERI ISKANDAR:The.BarisanNasionalfederal government'Willstop giving out allocations to neWvillage heads to be appointed bystate governments ruIedby thePakatan Rakyat.

Instead, ,the federal govern-ment will appoint its own repre-sentativesin the villages to carryout federal projects, simpar tothat done in.Terengganu when itwas held by Pas betWeen 1999and 2004.

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mitteemembers will. comprise'former village heads appointed bythe BN . state governments inPena.l!S,Kedah, Perak and Selan-gor. ." . .

Kelaritan, which has been underPas since 1990, has its.own inech"anism. .

RuraF and 'Regiol,lal Develop-mentMinister-Tan Sri MuhamniadMuhammad Taib said the villageheads could now resign to join.the

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federaI committees.He. said the committees would.

be answerable only to BN and the.federal government and not theirre!jpective'state government.

Asked:if allegiance to BN wpB arequirement to jom the new com-mittee, hesaid: "They have to jointh(J.newformat by the,federal gov-ernment. . '

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'em upHe wants all government quarters in Putrajaya to be used

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'Sidek says fill'BY MAZWIN NIK ANIS, mazwin@thestar.com.my

IF Chief Secretary to theGovernmentTanSriSidekHassanhad his way, not even a single

quarters facility in the federaladministrative capital would be leftvacant.

Sidekbelievesthat it is a waste toI~avethe quarters unoccupied asa .lack of usage will only lead to.prop-erty darnage. .

He has made it "his business" tofill up the several hundred housingunit!i built for civil servants inPutrajaya and has also looked at thepossibility of offering them to thoseworking in government offices and

departments outside the adminis-'trative capital.

'~Itis sad to see the quarters leftvacant when the government hasspent a large-amount of money toprovidethe facilitiesto civilservants.

"We will look into solving theproblem and mayofferthese housesto civil servants working in officeslocated in Kajang,KualaLumpurandSupang]aya,for example.

"lam sure there are people who'are interested in living in Putrajayaas the quarters al,"ecomfortable,"hesaid.

Speaking at the launch of thestrategic plan for the PrimeMinister's Department's propertymanagement division, Sidek said

civil servants might be offered quar-ters either below or above their eli-gibility, explaining that. if an officerwas only entitled to a terrace houseand there were a lot of vacant semi-detached units, he would be offeredone of those instead.

"Similarly, if a civil servant is enti-tled to a terrace house, but there areonly apartment' units left, I wouldsuggest they take up the offerbecause if they have to find theirown housing in Kuala Lumpur, it willalsobe another apartment. .

"Furthermore, the apartmentshere are spacious and comfortable,"he said, adding that so far 11,213houses and flats of various types hadbeen built in putrajaya at a cost of

some RM3.7bil.Sidek said by the end of 2010, the

number of quarters available in the,federal administrative capital wouldreach 12,073 units and would bemanaged by the property manage-ment division.

He also touched on the impor-tance of keeping putrajaya and' itsfacilities in tip-top condition, addingthat the public would scrutini!ie andwould judge civil servants on howthey maintained what was beingprovidedforthemthere. .

"I also urge parents to keep an eyeon their children and warn themagainst vandalism and social ills.Putrajayashouldhe a modelcity,notonlyin te,rmsof facilitiesofferedbut

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Wasted: Sidek also said if the,units were not used, they could bedamaged.

the mentality and social behaviourof its residents,"he said,addingthat,last year, 40 cases of vandalism werereported and the division spentRM4.7mil On maintenance.