vox populi small thumbnail 'In an equatorial country enjoying 360 days of sunshine every year, to even think of perpetuating the use of fossil fuels by investing billions in nuclear energy is unbelievably stupid.'

 

Environmentalists slam Malaysia's nuclear ambition

Ubi Wan Kenobi: A resounding no to a nuclear power plant in Malaysia. The technology itself is outdated, unwieldy, destructive, and dangerous - and because it is capital intensive, will benefit only the ruling elite and not the rakyat.

In an equatorial country enjoying 360 days of sunshine every year, to even think of perpetuating the use of fossil fuels by investing billions in nuclear energy is unbelievably stupid - or, more likely, just outright cynical, perverse and malevolent.

Baiyuensheng: The construction of a nuclear plant will cause a lot of carbon emissions? So do most construction going on around the world. So do we stop construction? Nuclear energy is the current viable green alternative to fossil fuels that are contributing the greenhouse effect.

Don't always take the Chernobyl incident as the reason to reject the use of nuclear power. There are now safer plants like for example the pebble bed nuclear reactor. China is currently operating a 10-megawatts prototype and plan to built a 200-plus megawatts and complete in 2013.

A meltdown simulation was carried out in front of a panel of foreign experts and no overheating and explosion was experienced. We cannot afford to lag behind the use of such energy. My opinion is that this is the future.

Chedet: Instead of building a nuclear reactor, the government should consider subsidising the rakyat who wish to connect solar panels to the electricity grid. This can be more easily done and all parties will benefit.

The logical step is to maximise all available energy sources and then only consider nuclear alternatives. But then again, there is much money to be made from awarding a contract to a two-ringgit company...

Teen shooting: Two sides of the same story

Ben Hor: Hmm, very interesting contradicting stories. I think we can tell the real story by using real witnesses. If the police have their side of the story, let all of them who were involved in the chase/shooting, come out and tell it to the media what actually happened.

The police had a chance to question Azamuddin Omar, now let the public question the police.

Jlo: Everyone seems to be forgetten that it is a crime to drive at 15. When you do that without learning how to drive, you put innocent people's lives at stake. And what about his parents? What about their responsibility to taka care of him instead of letting him drive out off.

Things would be completely different if he had hit an child or old lady, then we see who is really wrong.

Paddington Bear: Unless Aminulrasyid was still conscious despite having a bullet shot into the back of his head, I have no idea how he could have even moved his hands and feet, let alone reverse the car 'to defend himself'. You be the judge.

'Cite Malaysiakini, not Nazri, for contempt'

Martin Leong: What kind of a logic is this that the reporting party is deemed to be in the wrong whereas the one uttering the statement is in the right?

If this is the best our AG's Chambers or federal counsel can do, it is no wonder that the prosecution success is solely dependent on getting favourable judges to preside over the case.

Cala: The logic of the illogical. What kind of argument senior federal counsel Amarjeet Singh is trying to sell here?

His logic is akin to the following story. Say Mr X in a neighborhood A saw a thief entered his neighbour's house belonging to Mr Y. As a man who pays his tax on time, Mr X called the police right away, and at the same time took a picture of the thief as the latter was entering the neighbour's house. The police came on receiving the call and caught the thief red-handed.

Newspaper Z carried the news of house-breaking with a photo of the thief supplied by Mr X. The police blamed newspaper Z because the news pointed to the rise in crime rate in neighborhood A, which made the police looked bad in the eyes of the public. Newspaper Z was castigated for carrying the news.

Yuvan: Journalists, especially from Malaysiakini , seem to be doing the most dangerous of the jobs in Malaysia today. These poor souls are just doing their job - with courage and conviction - but are being threatened and hounded left and right by all the 'powers' in the BN government.

It is sheer hypocrisy on the part of the government and its institutions when they say that journalists should report without fear or favour and when that is done, the government cries foul and the journalists are taken to task.

Additional RM9 bil allocation will not worsen deficit

Sabahan: Spending money it does not have! The government is spending money even before they collected the taxes. After the Hulu Selangor election is over,

BN immediately reverted to their old ways: GST is back on the menu, forcing through a nuclear project and now this, increasing government spending when the rakyat are told to tighten their belt.

 

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