Have you seen the state of Gurney Drive's shores lately?
It looks like Pantai Morib or the mudflats of an empty padi field during low tide.
Can it be reversed?It would take a heck of a lonnnnng time before those imbecilic well meaning misinformed 'environmentalists' get the message that they are playing a great part in further destroying it's beauty.
Each time some 'bright' sparks thinks they want to do something about the sludge problem that is actually caused by the hawkers throwing their soups and refuse from Anjung Gurney into the sea,they throw a semi carnival/party and chuck in thousands of mudballs into the sea.
Why not set up a night patrol starting from 11 pm to 1 am every single night to confront them and prevent the rot?No,confronting the hostile hawkers would be way too risky.That is not for chickens or the weak hearted.
Just what are the long term implications of introducing foreign micro organisms into the sea?Well,the first two occasions organisers did this,when they got the public as well as companies to volunteer arm power,plantlife from the nearby mangrove swamps festered into the area and started growing.Everyone took it as a good sign.
But when that happened certain individuals didn't take kindly to it cos a mangrove swamp view across Gurney Drive would not be good for business or property prices.
So the plants somehow mysteriously died or were removed.
Point is,no matter how good the organism is in breaking down household waste and garden refuse,no matter how wonderful it is in converting those wastes into useful vinegar,all that is carried out in a controlled and confined area unlike the vast open seabed.
Tell,what good would it do the environment to force 2 thousand mudballs down its throat?Mudballs that will eventually transform sludge into vinegar IN THE SEA?
Nature has a way of correcting itself,but when one introduces a foreign lifeform,it could and will ravage its original form.
If the Green Penang Committee continues mooting and supporting this rape of the environment we are going to end up with a Taiwanese,Kao Shiang coast beach.Beautiful and pristine but terribly smelly like the inside pipes underneath the kitchen sink due to a war between foreign cleanup agents and various refuse.
Stop this nonsensical event before it is too late to turn back the clock.How very sad to see it take shape before our very eyes with no one daring to speak up.
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33 MGS Students Throw Their Weight Behind The Environment
(The Star 4th august)
Connection Programme 2011 director Marina Tan, 17, who arranged the event, said the students made a difference to the environment by volunteering for the event.
“Their participation proves that they walked the talk' and took action on environmental issues.”Geography teacher Loke Bee Keow said the programme was to help raise awareness among the students about the importance of doing their part for the environment.
Present at the event were Pulau Tikus assemblyman Koay Teng Hai and Green Gurney Drive Initiative co-chairman Datuk Dr Ong Hean Tee.
Koay said the event was part of the Green Gurney Drive Initiative launched on Feb 23 last year.“To reduce organic pollutants, we throw mud balls with effective micro-organisms into the sea.
“The micro-organisms will slowly leak out of the mud balls within five days and decompose the organic waste in the sea bed thus reducing the sludge.”
The event is a quarterly basis project under the initiative which is expected to end by December 2012.
