I am appalled and disgusted by the Malaysian government’s decision to approve the Broga incinerator plant despite the presence of both international and local efforts to stop the project.

Ideally, I would prefer the government to setup recycling plants instead of an incinerator. I do know the incinerator will cost almost USD 400 million – I do not know the cost of setting up a recycling plant and thus I cannot compare the two. However, the pollution produced by any incinerator, is intolerable. Incinerator is after all, a furnace for garbage, whether it is high-tech or not.

But that itself is not my main objection to the project. Concession could be made if the tradeoff between the environment and development is too big. Still, the location of the “another Barisan Nasional government’s project” certainly is not subjected to any compromise; the government-claimed clean incinerator – imagine! The word clean is being used to describe an incinerator! Ridiculous! - is located in a catchment area.

It is a water cache area for God’s sake! The government is supposed to protect any catchment area from pollution but in Malaysia, the government is no doing its supposed job! In fact, it itself is violating its own rules!

Fresh water is important for life. It is important for us for daily usage. It is imperative for us to protect the source of fresh water. Failure to do that will be devastating. Failure to respect the very commodity that life depends on will lead to the extinction of life itself. What is money when the elixir of life itself is being threatened?

The government in Malaysia needs to do it job. The government is supposed to protect its citizens' property and here, clearly the government fails miserably to protect and secure a valuable source of water for its citizens. If the government fails to do its job, then it will be of an uttermost importance to replace such incompetent bureaucrats with the ones that are capable protecting any crucial strategic resources - may it be fresh water or crude oil - for its citizens.

Here is the middle finger to the Japanese firms benefit from this project, the Japanese government for encouraging this project, the Malaysian Department of the Environment (and the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment) for not standing up for the environment and to the Malaysian government for failing its citizens on many uncounted occasions.

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And I wish, by the time the plant is completed, ELF is ready to give Malaysia a visit.