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The Natural Resources and Environment Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri G. Palanivel informed the Malaysians today that the haze caused by the fires in Riau province, Central Sumatra and Indonesia would stay in the west coast in the peninsular, including the national capital, till September.
This was reflected by the regional smoke map and satellite imagery map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released yesterday by the Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) based in Singapore. “The ASMC also reported 116 hot spots detected by NOAA satellite image 18 in Sumatra on June 22,” he said in a statement today. In addition, 11 hot spots were detected namely in Sabah (four), Selangor (three), Negeri Sembilan (two) and one each in Malacca and Pahang.
According to Bernama He further added that to deal with the dry spell, southwest monsoon and impact of the El Nino phenomenon, the ministry through the Department of Environment (DOE) had taken several initial steps, including an action plan to control open burning nationwide from February. Palanivel said that based on DOE investigations, 3,936 cases involving 1,257 burning were traced to agricultural areas, bushland areas (913), forests (833), small scale open burning (716), construction areas (117), landfills (69) and industrial areas (31) between last January and yesterday. “For the same period, 276 cases of open burning are compounded and 87 cases are issued warning notices,” he said, adding that 43 investigation papers for open-burning offences had been opened for prosecution in court.
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