See what I said? Now tragedy struck (fortunately not in Penang) but haven't we heard this phrase before: "Enough is enough, no more permits. Immediate stop-work order." What's next? Everyone quieten down and the bulldozers are alive again. Come to think of it, I still hear rock-blasting nearby my place.
Lessons are painful aren't they? But it hurts more when similar tragedies repeat and show us how little we, or rather, the ones giving out permits learnt from the past. Then the developers come; having dollar signs all over the place but refusing to accept that they're killing the environment and the balance thereof. Not to mention, majority of hillside/seaside projects doesn't undergo the Environmental Impact Assessment.
Lessons are painful aren't they? But it hurts more when similar tragedies repeat and show us how little we, or rather, the ones giving out permits learnt from the past. Then the developers come; having dollar signs all over the place but refusing to accept that they're killing the environment and the balance thereof. Not to mention, majority of hillside/seaside projects doesn't undergo the Environmental Impact Assessment.
It's belated, overdue, "expiry-dated" that any developments by the hills/seas/or anywhere else that threatens the environment and ecosystem be stopped and future ones flushed down the toilet.
We'll see this time if all these are no-action-talk-only.
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