KOTA KINABALU, July 25 — Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment minister Datuk Christina Liew today said that the state’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is...
KOTA KINABALU, July 25 — Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment minister Datuk Christina Liew today said that the state’s Environmental Protection Department is investigating the incident of dark brown effluent flowing into a beach adjacent to a controversial silica sand mining operation in Kudat.that initial reports suggested that the dark brown alleged pollutants were believed to be from a natural pond outside the mining area that had flowed into the white sand beach.
“I was informed by the EPD director that this is the natural colour of the water even before the sand mining project started,” she was quoted as saying.
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