KUANTAN: Eight compound notices were issued by state Department of Environment (DOE) against Mentiga Corporation Bhd, the logging concessionaire for Hulu Sungai Lembing, here, for violating the law on scheduled waste disposal.
Its director Rosli Zul said the compounds were issued on Monday, following an investigation carried out by the department on Nov 21, it was found that the firm had failed to manage equipment, machines and scheduled wastes like oil efficiently, stipulated under the Environmental Quality Act 1974.
“The company has 30 days to settle the compounds worth RM2,000 each from the date of the notices were issued. Failure to do so would result in prosecution,” he told NSTP here today.
Meanwhile, he said the department was still carrying out investigation to determine whether there was any violation of requirements set in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report done for the logging activity there.
The NSTP report had revealed that some 500ha of jungle in Hulu Sungai Lembing had been cut down indiscriminately without regard to the impact on the environment nor the impact to tourism in the surrounding areas.
The report also claimed the five rivers, which flowed through the logging concession area, had been affected by logging and that the water had turned murky.
The news report had prompted the DoE to take action by investigating whether the five rivers had indeed been polluted.
Initial investigations had revealed that the logging project had an approved EIA report, which had been done in 2013, under Mentiga Corporation.