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Why is the fish dying in Kuantan?
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@Twt_Kuantan @KuantanTV kuantan darul bauxite..
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5 January 2016
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If anything happens, our ministers study the history of things. And according to the History Channel, we should blame the aliens! #Bauxite
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z u l f o ® @thezulfo 1 hour ago
Teruk Stormtrooper satu ni kena ludah dgn sireh, kahkahkah #mudahterhibur #Bauxite
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Kerajaan Rakyat @KerajaanRakyat2 1 hour ago
Bila air dan udara tercemar Bila haiwan dan tumbuhan mati. Baru disedari wang ringgit tidak boleh dimakan. #Bauxite
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Kerajaan Rakyat @KerajaanRakyat2 43 minutes ago
Kini rakyat jadi keliru. #Bauxite Yang mana sultan, yang mana syaitan?
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#Bauxite #Miners: We’ve not been told to stop http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/01/120551/miners-weve-not-been-told-stop …
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#Bauxite pollution in #Pahang. Pity d ppl staying at d affected areas. Hope d state govt will b more pro active.
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4 January 2016
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Potential M’sia bauxite ban to chip away at China stockpiles https://shar.es/16sexS via @sharethis #bauxite
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Sophie Kamaruddin Impact of Possible Pahang #Bauxite Mining Ban on Exports https://youtu.be/iN3jj4yqGJ8 #dashboardnews
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Stop or face human blockade, bauxite miners warned
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Bauxite miners in Kuantan have been warned to stop their activities for good or face action in the form of a human blockade by environmental NGO Protectors of Nature’s Treasures Society (Peka) Pahang.
The NGO said it will give the miners till Jan 15 to cease their bauxite mining and transport activities in Kuantan completely.
“If not, Peka Pahang along with other NGOs and thousands of local residents will hold a large-scale human blockade to block the trucks and machineries at all exits of the bauxite mine in Kuantan, along with the entries at the bauxite stockpiles in Gebeng and Kuantan Port,” Peka chairperson Khaidir Ahmad said in a statement yesterday.
While Peka welcomed the cabinet’s instructions to the Pahang government to cease all bauxite mining in Kuantan temporarily, Khaidir said the mining must be stopped completely for the welfare of the environment and the people.
The fight against bauxite mining has been an uphill one for dissenting locals and has turned local landowners who rent out their land to the miners into overnight millionaires.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/325364
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Tengku Puan Pahang urges ‘fight people fight’ bauxite pollution
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The Tengku Puan of Pahang, Tunku Azizah Maimunah Iskandariah has expressed sadness and disappointment over the pollution caused by bauxite mining activities in Kuantan.
She urged the people to continue their fight against the activities which were detrimental to the state.
Through her Instagram account @tengkupuanpahang, Tunku Azizah yesterday uploaded several statuses relating to the matter and attached several newspaper articles on the pollution caused by bauxite activities.
“So sad…” and “fight people fight”.
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Pahang crown princess joins battle against bauxite http://twib.in/l/oRo58ABqb8a | https://twibble.io
#ICYMI: Pahang coast affected by bauxite mining ‘doomed for three years’, says scientist http://bit.ly/1OEACvN
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PETALING JAYA, Jan 3 — The bauxite-contaminated red sea off the Pahang coastal area is bound to be a “dead sea” for up to three years.
Malaysian Society of Marine Sciences chairman Dr Harinder Rai Singh said the contamination would be fatal to marine life.
Harinder, who is advising the environment department on the marine ecology affected by the bauxite contamination in Kuantan, said the contamination would harm the breathing system of sea creatures.
“It affects all forms of life, from the planktons to the top carnivores in the area, even the marine mammals,” said Harinder, who is also a marine expert at the Malaysia National Oceanographic Data Centre.
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3 January
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#Kuantan facing severe danger http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/01/120276/kuantan-facing-severe-danger … #bauxite
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#Scientists give #NST a peek at #bauxite report for Pahang govt http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/01/120268/scientists-give-nst-peek-report-pahang-govt …
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Heavy metals in the water will be available for uptake by aquatic organisms, which may become food sources for the public.
Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/01/120268/scientists-give-nst-peek-report-pahang-govt
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2 January 2016
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Kartun Zunar: Satu Hari di LOWYAT
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IS IT TRUE?
Malaysia seeks to suspend bauxite mining after environmental scare: Cabinet source
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KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia is pushing to suspend bauxite mining due to concerns about its impact on the environment, a cabinet source said today (Jan 2), threatening to interrupt supply of the aluminium-making ingredient to China.
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The cabinet wants to temporarily halt bauxite mining until regulations, licensing and environmental protection can be put in place, the source told Reuters today.
“The idea is to suspend it for a time until all this is sorted out, but ultimately the prerogative for licensing lies with the state,” the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to media.
Prime Minister Najib Razak has asked the resource minister to resolve the issues with the government of Malaysia’s third-largest state and key bauxite producer Pahang, the source said.
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Images showing the #bauxite stockpile kept near #Kuantan Port, not far from the #Pengorak river.
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estee gan Death by a thousand cuts ! @LowElsielow54 @billtay25 @arifsetia2013 @kuabt @NonVitalTooth @_chuad @ahkmlog @kcl1308
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Illegal miners culprits behind red sea, says Pahang govt
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KUANTAN — The state government says illegal mining is the cause of contaminated waters near Kuantan Port.
State public utilities and environment committee chairman Mohd Soffi Abd Razak said a recent check showed legal mines adhered to the state government’s regulations.
“There were no traces of them contributing to the contaminated waters near Kuantan Port,” Mr Soffi said.
“We believe the illegal miners are causing the waters to be murky,” he said, adding that action would be taken against them.
Falling short from playing the blame game, he said the state government — together with other state agencies — would review their current system to better regulate the industry.
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He said thugs had been following the movements of several officers who had visited the mining areas recently.
“We don’t know where these ‘tontos’ are from but they have been monitoring our movement … it is a form of intimidation.”
“I don’t want to jump the gun as Mentri Besar (Adnan Yaakob) will be issuing a statement on this soon. There will be good news for Kuantan folk.”
He said Mr Adnan’s statement was based on the feedback from “hundreds of non-governmental organisations and individuals” concerned about the bauxite mining in the state.
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/illegal-miners-culprits-behind-red-sea-says-pahang-govt?page=1
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30 December 2015
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Balok sea turns red due to bauxite mining http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/12/119616/balok-sea-turns-red-due-bauxite-mining …
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Sungai Balok turns red after rain due to bauxite http://twib.in/l/4dn4G9bG78E | https://twibble.io
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29 December 2015
Malaysiakini
How the bauxite rush is taking a toll on Kuantan’s future
SPECIAL REPORT Kuantan’s “bauxite rush” is gaining attention, both nationally and internationally. However, beyond the viral images of the state capital that is now covered in thick layers of red dust, what is the real extent of the damage?
Malaysiakini puts together here a series of Google satellite images before and after the bauxite rush to help readers get a big picture of what’s going on in Kuantan.
Based on satellite data, the major bauxite excavation areas are Felda Bukit Goh (19km from Kuantan city centre), RTP Bukit Goh (16km away), Kota Sri Ahmad Shah (16km) and the more recent excavations in Beserah (17km).
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The excavation for bauxite-rich soil has left the Kuantan landscape littered with holes and leaves the nearby village populations choking in red dust that is potentially contaminated with heavy metals.
Much of these are happening away from the views of major population centres – but an on-the-ground survey conducted earlier this month has found new site openings that are closer to the populated areas – and which have yet to be reflected on satellite images.
Several activists have also highlighted the potential that run-off from the bauxite excavation sites may enter the nearby rivers, thus polluting the water sources for Kuantan’s 700,000 population.
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Tests by the Department of Environment (DOE) conducted in August showed the sources of raw water supply to contain high levels of mercury that exceeded the allowable standards.
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More recent tests, conducted on Dec 3 by Maketab Mohamed, a professor of water quality and water quality modelling at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, found the raw water to be within the allowed levels of contamination.
However, Maketab discovered that treated water in Semambu and Bukit Goh contained lead and aluminium, respectively, that did not comply with the regulatory standards.
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The uncontrolled ferrying of bauxite into the port for export to China is not only threatening to destroy Kuantan’s fishing industry but also other export activities, with the port’s infrastructure being rapidly degraded by beelines of lorries and lingering red dust.
For the full report:
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/324788
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28 December 2015
Greed, gangs and violence in Kuantan’s bauxite rush
SPECIAL REPORT Kuantan is once again on the environmental centre stage as it becomes inundated by red dust from a bauxite rush.
But unlike Kuantan’s struggle against the Lynas’ rare earth processing plant just five years ago, the latest environmental controversy has not spawned any significant protest movement, even though it has persisted for almost two years.
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Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh, who was a key figure in jumpstarting the movement against the rare earths refinery Lynas, admitted that she was struggling to find the groundswell for support in the latest bauxite issue.
“It all boils down to greed,” said Fuziah.
While the Pahang government has allowed state lands to be dug up for bauxite-rich soil, local residents have also willingly allowed their lands to be dug up for similar purposes, as runners promise them lucrative returns.
Overnight millionaires
One such example are the settlers of Rancangan Tanah Pemuda (RTP) Bukit Goh, whose forefathers have worked the land for over four decades but their children now find an opportunity to become instant millionaires by allowing their oil palms to be uprooted.
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RTP Bukit Goh is approximately 16km away from the Kuantan city centre.
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Border villagers torch bauxite lorries
But several kilometres down Jalan Bukit Kuantan, across the Pahang border, the anger has boiled over with local villagers resorting to burning bauxite-carrying lorries.
Lorry drivers are required to use this route as it goes around Kuantan, avoiding major population centres, but they have to briefly cross into Neram, Terengganu, on their way to Gebeng Port in Pahang.
Villagers who reside on the Terengganu side of the border have nothing to gain from the bauxite rush but find their asphalt roads littered with craters and gradually being transformed into dirt roads as thousands of lorries pass them.
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Read the rest of the article:
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/324677
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26 December 2015
The woman, believed to be the owner of the Facebook account ‘Adinda Idris’, is being investigated for claiming they did not investigate an accident involving her son and a lorry carrying bauxite on Dec 18.
Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/12/119037/police-investigate-woman-after-viral-post-sons-crash
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Malaysian Insider
Wanita disiasat selepas status Facebook tuduh polis
Menurut Aziz, walaupun wanita itu kemudian memuat naik status memohon maaf dan memberi alasan kononnya statusnya disalah tafsir, polis tetap membuka kertas siasatan mengikut Seksyen 500 Kanun Keseksaan kerana memfitnah.
Kertas siasatan itu akan diserahkan kepada Pejabat Timbalan Pendakwa Raya untuk tindakan lanjut.
Beliau turut menasihati pengguna media sosial agar menghentikan komen berbaur fitnah berhubung kes itu dan tidak menyebarkan status berkenaan kerana dikhuatiri akan menganggu siasatan selain boleh menyebabkan mereka dipanggil untuk membantu siasatan.
Dalam kejadian pada jam 9 malam Jumaat lepas, anak kepada wanita berkenaan yang menaiki motosikal dilaporkan cedera parah selepas berlanggar dengan sebuah lori membawa muatan bauksit di Jalan Pintasan Kuantan berhampiran sebuah stesen minyak .
Bagaimanapun, lori berkenaan dilaporkan tidak berhenti dan nombor pendaftaran kenderaan yang diberikan rakan mangsa selepas itu didapati tidak tepat kerana merupakan milik kenderaan lain menyebabkan polis mengambil masa mengesan pemandu terlibat.
Sehingga kini siasatan berhubung kes itu masih berjalan dan tidak dibuang seperti yang didakwa wanita terbabit. – Bernama, 25 Disember, 2015.
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Malay Mail Online
KUANTAN, Dec 25 — Police are investigating the owner of Adinda Idris Facebook account for claiming they did not investigate an accident involving her son and a lorry carrying bauxite on Dec 18.
Kuantan Police chief ACP Abdul Aziz Salleh said the woman claimed police had advised her husband to withdraw the report made by her son, a student of the Industrial Training Institute (ILP) in Gebeng.
The woman’s posting went viral on Facebook causing a large number of social media users to post comments, criticising the police, for their action.
“It has smeared the good name of the investigating officer and the Royal Malaysian Police. A report has been made against the woman to facilitate investigations.
“We deny advising the victim’s family and regard the claim as slander. We are working tirelessly to ensure that justice is served,” he told reporters here, today.
The police will open an investigation under Section 500 of the Penal Code for slander although the woman has apologised saying she had misunderstood the situation.
Abdul Aziz said the investigation paper will be delivered to the Deputy Public Prosecutor’s (DPP) office for further action.
– See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/adinda-idris-fb-account-owner-under-probe-for-slandering-police#sthash.yAVA2aRK.dpuf
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A modern-day ‘gold rush’ in Malaysia
Rise in bauxite mining in M’sia
Bauxite mining took off in Malaysia shortly after top producer Indonesia banned mineral ore exports in January last year to encourage domestic metals processing, leaving major consumers like China in a supply crunch.
Malaysia has helped filled the gap. But critics warn the mining is being done amateurishly and with little or no government attention to potential environmental harm.
Bauxite mining can release carcinogenic heavy metals such as strontium and other harmful substances, as well as low levels of radiation.
Star
24 December 2015
Another bauxite lorry torched
KUANTAN: Another bauxite transport lorry has been torched here. It is believed to be in retaliation to a fatal accident involving a bauxite lorry and a teacher.
Beserah assemblyman Andansura Rabu claimed that the incident was caused by residents frustrated with the influx of lorries due to the booming bauxite mining industry.
“This happened the night after there was a fatal road accident. It can’t be a coincidence,” he said.
At 3pm on Monday, a teacher from SK Balok, Nohaili Ahmad Zabidi, 40, was killed when the car she was in was hit by a dislodged tyre from a bauxite lorry.
The driver has since surrendered himself at the Kuantan traffic police station.
Andansura said this was the sixth incident of a bauxite lorry being set on fire in the last three months.
Kuantan OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Aziz Salleh confirmed that a lorry was set on fire near Bukit Goh, with people calling in to report it at about 1.45am on Tuesday.
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Andansura said he had received complaints that five other lorries had been burned in Sungai Karang, Sungai Ular, Neram and Balok.
Statistics from the district police traffic department showed there were 24 accidents involving bauxite lorries between January and September with two of them fatal.
The danger of bauxite lorries has been raised in the Pahang state assembly.
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/24/another-bauxite-lorry-torched/
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@AbdMalekHussin tak pasti sahih atau tak. Tapi driver driver lorry bauxite ni mmg bawak lori mcam celaka.
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Malaysian Insider
Bauxite rush brings wealth, worries in Kuantan
Surin Beris’s palm plantation has been razed and bulldozers are tearing into its red soil, releasing potentially hazardous dust into the environment – yet he couldn’t be happier.
Surin, 67, is reaping a windfall from a modern-day gold rush in Kuantan, Pahang for the high-grade bauxite that lies in its ruddy soil.
Demand for bauxite, which is used in aluminium production, is soaring – fuelled by heavy demand from China.
The boom is a “gift from Allah”, said Surin, who previously made about RM2,000 per month cultivating the plum-sized fruit that is squeezed to make palm oil.
“I made RM1 million in less than six months. I thank the Almighty for being so generous,” he said.
Bauxite mining took off in Malaysia shortly after Indonesia, a top producer, banned mineral ore exports in January 2014 to encourage domestic metals processing, leaving major consumers like China in a supply crunch.
Malaysia has helped filled the gap. Previously an insignificant producer, there has been a sharp rise in mining, most of it illegal like Surin’s.
Malaysian bauxite output more than quadrupled year-on-year in 2014, to nearly 963,000 metric tons, according to government figures, and is expected to rise.
But critics warn the mining is being done amateurishly and with little or no government attention to potential environmental harm.
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In Pahang, where the landscape is dominated by tropical forests and agriculture, red dust swirls around the pits and along the roads on which bauxite-laden trucks rumble toward the port of Kuantan on the South China Sea, where the ore is shipped to China.
Critics fear heavy metals could enter the water supply or food chain, affecting communities for years.
Environmentalists say local rivers and the shores along Kuantan are frequently stained red from mining run-off, and residents complain of a rise in respiratory problems and skin rashes.
– See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/bauxite-rush-brings-wealth-worries-in-kuantan#sthash.j7PNWrVP.syYzr2gr.dpu
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Kawasan PKR tapi projek ini projek MB dan kerabat Pahang. Ambil tanah yang mengandungi bauxite kemudian hantar ke pelabuhan untuk angkut ke China
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Agence France-PresseMalaysian bauxite rush brings wealth, and worries http://u.afp.com/ZAC4
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Beta Official Kuantan town has turned red because of bauxite mining. Who approved? #PersoalanBeta
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Kuantan folk blame bauxite mining for rise in asthma, respiratory cases – The Malaysian Insider https://shar.es/1GY9X0 #TakNakBauxite
There has to be only one explanation, teacher Syed Sharinnizam Syed Mohd Shah thought, as he observed more and more of his pupils stricken with breakouts of rashes and respiratory problems.
It had to be the red dust choking the air around the religious school, Maahad Tahfiz Anwar At-Tanzil in Tanjung Pasir near Kuantan, Pahang, which sits by a main road used by lorries transporting bauxite ore from the mines inland to the port.
“Maybe (the rashes) could have been caused by dirty laundry or anything else if it only happened to one person. But it happened to one pupil after another. Itchiness, coughing and fever,” Syed Sharinnizam, 32, said.
His only child, six-month-old Syed Abdul Qadir, also suffers breathing difficulties and was hospitalised.
Dr Syed Abdul Khaliq Syed Abdul Hamid, a paediatrician at Kuantan Hospital, said he was seeing worsening cases of asthma in more than 10 children living near bauxite mining areas.
“I have many patients in bauxite areas with very poorly controlled asthma. They can’t sleep at night because of difficulty in breathing, and this is affecting their school and development,” he said.
The doctor believes that exposure to bauxite dust is the trigger because his patients’ conditions improved once they were removed from their daily environment.
“When we admit the children to hospital, the child is able to sleep and able to breath better.”
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Geram demands transparency in bauxite contamination findings Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/12/118244/geram-demands-transparency-bauxite-contamination-findings …
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Anas Alam Faizli Five Bauxite Lorries Burned by an Angry Malaysian Public http://cleanmalaysia.com/2015/12/18/five-bauxite-lorries-burned-by-an-angry-malaysian-public/ …
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One villager’s lone voice against bauxite mining http://bit.ly/1OfdT35
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The title says: Kuantan citizens drinking contaminated bauxite water. #BauxiteMining
Seen on a bauxite lorry, parked haphazardly in the kampung nearby Neram. U have been warned!
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Uncovered lorry carrying bauxite. Loose soil falling off the back everytime it hits a bump. Dirtying the road.
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Seen displayed on the front of a lorry carrying bauxite out of KOTASAS. Lesen Kuning? #BauxiteMining
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Diya Ming Lorry bauxite tumpas lagi gais
kesian kereta belakang kena penyek
@KuantanTV
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