Jawatankuasa Bertindak Pembantahan Membinakan Loji Jana Kuasa Arang Batu Di Sandakan
Sandakan Anti Coal Power Plant Action Committee
Block 47, Jalan Leila, CCC Building,
P. O. Box No. 161, 90702 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tel: 089-213371, 225861 Fax: 089-275861
E. Mail : sccc06@hotmail.com
The Prime Minister,
Dato’ Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
The Deputy Prime Minister,
Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak
Prime Minister’s Department
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan,
62502 Putrajaya
Date : 31st October 2008
YAB Dato’ Seri,
We, the Sandakan Anti Coal Power Plant Action Committee, comprises of 30 NGOs and together with all the rest of the environmentalists, would like to appeal to your kind office to stop the building of the Coal Fire Power Plant in Sandakan which is environment damaging and replace with a Natural Gas Power Plant which is more environment friendly.
We also understand that on 31st May during your recent visit to Sabah this year, Datuk Seri has announced the cancellation of the Natural Gas piping from Kimanis Sabah to Bintulu Sarawak which is 500km away. Why not divert our Sabah natural resources to the East Coast of Sabah which badly needed for power generation and industries use. We strongly support your good office and noble mission to make our natural gas resources remain in the possession of Sabah, to be fully utilised and enjoyed by our Sabah people.
Malaysia has a well-developed oil and gas sector and a growing petrochemical industry. A wide range of petrochemicals are produce in Malaysia such as olefins, polyolefins, aromatics, ethylene oxides, glycols, oxo-alcohols, exthoxylates, acrylic acids, phthalic anhydride, acetic acid, styrene monomer. Polystyrene, vinylchloride monomer and polyvinyl chloride.
Among the oil production states of Malaysia, we understand that Terengganu is having a full range of petrochemical downstream processing Plant while Sarawak is also having the third largest site of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing complex in the World after Algeria and Indonesia. The Bintulu complex produce 45000 mtpa for export and it also house the Asean Urea / Ammonia plant.
While Sabah is the potentially the biggest supplier of crude oil with a known reserve of approximately 2.2 billion barrels out of 5.4 billion barrel in Malaysia and 11.6 tscf of known gas reserve is timely to work on our resources to start a petrochemical plant in Sabah, thereby providing stimulus to a economy growth.
Sabah with well-developed oil and gas resources, we see no reason why we cannot divert our natural gas from Kimanis to the East Coast for power generation and industries use.
We propose a Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Pipelines can be build to bring the natural gas from Kimanis to Sandakan via Tawau, and Lahad Datu.
Beside power generation for Sandakan, Tawau and Lahad Datu, natural gas can be use as follows:
1. INDUSTRIAL USER
Compressed natural gas (CNG) cars and trucks are already on the road in many areas. Companies using industrial processes that require high temperatures are also turning to natural gas instead of other fuels in order to reduce the air pollution emitted by their plants.
This includes companies involved in manufacturing steel, glass, ceramics, cement, paper, chemicals, aluminium, retreated tires and processed foods.
In Sandakan, the palm oil refinery can convert diesel burning boiler into gas fired. POIC Sandakan Manufacturer, can promote the use of natural gas to power their plant and manufacturing purposes, cheaper, cleaner and more convenience to use.
2. AMMONIA /UREA PLANT
Sandakan import, thousands of tons of Urea and Ammonia based fertilizer for the palm oil plantation and glue manufacturing. Why not utilise our natural gas to produce these product for our plantation and manufacturing industries, saving million in foreign currency and giving job to our people.
3. HOME
Even though our population in the east coast is relatively small, it does not mean that we cannot benefit from the utilisation of the natural gas. Natural gas can be compressed into gas tank and can be widely distributed in these regions, saving million in transportation by road to bring the compressed natural gas from Labuan or Kota Kinabalu. Most the electrical item for heating purpose can be converted to natural gas, such as heated, oven and others.
With the Transmission and Distribution Pipeline, east coast industrialisation can be less dependable on electricity and natural gas being cheaper can help make our products more competitive. Therefore the question of power shortage is a thing of the past. We believe the construction of a Transmission and Distribution Pipeline is viable and a study and working paper should be done.
We wish to stress again to YAB Dato’ Seri the serious hazards coal can cause to the human health and the environment as a whole. Coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels that emits double the amount of carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels. In 300 Mega-watt coal power plant, two tons of carbon dioxide will be emitted more than the normal emission of carbon dioxide by other fuels of only 1 ton. This has added to the problems of global warming and acid rain. Sandakan has been proclaimed and certified to everyone as a “Nature City” and we intend to keep it this way. If coal is implemented, our preserved evergreen rainforest and the heritage of Orang Utans with world recognition will no longer exist. Not to mention Sandakan houses the important industry of fishery which is also the main food source and commercial driven industry in Sandakan and the emission of coal will definitely cripple this industry in the long run.
The rise of asthma attacks and respiratory problems are one of the many consequences of the emission of coal. Mercury, an element found in the emission of coal, is a developmental toxin, primarily affecting fetal development that can cause brain damage, mental retardation, blindness, and many other problems. We do not want or specifically, we do not want to create such problems to rise in the future particularly when our future generation will be affected. Till then, it will be too late to regret.
As such, we join hands with YAB Dato’ Seri to work towards creating a better place for our people and our future generation to live in. We the people of Sabah will forever be graceful and indebted to Dato’ Seri should you fulfil our request.
Thank you
Stephen Wong Tien Fatt
Chairman
ON and behalf of ANTI Coal Plant Action Committee
cc 1) YAB Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Haji Aman, Ketua Menteri Sabah
2) YB Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri
3) YB Datuk Liew Vui Keong, Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri Malaysia Merangkap Ahli Parlimen Sandakan
4) YB Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah, Ahli Parlimen Batu Sapi
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