63 year old CHONG SOW PIN, founder member of Ad-Hoc Committee Against The Use Of Cynide In Mining Operations, was found dead in his orchard hut. Except for recent rashes and skin blisters, he has had no history of any major health problems.
His widow Chin is points an accusing finger at the operations of Raub Australian Gold Mining that began operations in December 2008, for Chong's unexpected demise.
The state assemblyperson for Tras, DAP’s Choong Siew Onn, said that over the past few months, he had received 350 complaints from the villagers after the fumes first surfaced.
Will the relevant authorities act to alleviate the fears that is are gripping the residents of Bukit Koman or give the stock answer: We will look into this.....the Swine Flu is more dangerous.
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Here comes the Clown check it here in Sunday Times http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/SundayInterview/20090502150506/Article/index_html
get the super doctor by the name of merican to give a press conference on post mortem of his death.
probably, his death is due to too much of fresh air which caused his lungs to be too overwhelmed, which in turn caused failure of the heart.
zorro, dont thunk you understand. neither do I. ask merican and his kugan, ok cause I wont be surprise there will be another massive cover-up. Well, i scratch your back you scratch mine. Now, MOH has to the part again.
"...And Tun Abdullah’s time opened the gate a lot bigger for the inclusion of freedom of speech, specifically...." - [ANT ASS TEE]But we can't even say "Altantuya" in our prayers! Maybe we add a prefix "1Antantantuya"? Would that open any gate? Like Bill's gate?
Teruk!
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nonsense, cyanide is a highly bio degrable substance. All those aquatic live was killed by clorin and not cyanide. Accessive Clorin was relased into the water to nutralise the cyanide leak. On contact with just air, cyanide will dissapear. Even normal edible products like groundnuts contains cyanide in natural conditions.
yep, cyanide does not have any smell.
(November 2008) U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Final
Legal Challenge to I-137
I-137: THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE BANNING CYANIDE HEAP-LEACH MINING
On Nov. 6, 1998, Montanans voted 53% to 47% to support a citizen's initiative, proposed by MEIC, to phase out open pit, cyanide-leach mining in Montana.
Despite numerous efforts by the legislature and by Canyon Resources to amend or repeal the initiative, it emerged unscathed. The initiative, now Montana state law, prohibits the development of new open pit cyanide leach mines, such as the McDonald Gold Project along the Blackfoot River.
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The Czech Republic has banned the use of cyanide in mining, and both Turkey and Greece have made significant court rulings against issuing permits to mining interests whose projects propose the use of cyanide.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
Cyanide is a toxic chemical – one teaspoon of two percent cyanide solution can cause death in humans. Today this dangerous chemical is used in gold extraction operations from Greece to Ghana. It has left a sorry legacy of environmental disasters in countries ranging from Guyana to Kyrgyzstan and the USA. In heap mining, the cyanide waste that’s left over is stored in ponds with thin liners that are only 1.5 mm thick and these can leak or break. It is not unusual to have spills of cyanide solution and heavy metal-laced water that can contaminate ground water, kill fish and waterfowl, and contaminate drinking water. This threatens public health and land alike.
In 1992, cyanide spilled from the Brewer gold mine in South Carolina and poured into the Lynches River where over 11,000 fish were killed along an 80 kilometre stretch of the river.
In 1995, some 3.2 billion litres of cyanide-laden tailings flooded the Essequibo river in Guyana when a dam broke at the Omai gold mine, operated by Cambior of Canada.
While the mining industry likes to highlight the fact that cyanide breaks down rapidly in sunlight, in fact, cyanide decomposes into other chemicals which are also toxic to fish and river life. Some of these chemicals can last for a long time in river systems. The mining industry usually does not test for these breakdown chemicals.
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/gold/cyanide.htm
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