For a mere 5% levy to the state and its people the timber giant Samling plans to convert poorly producing licensed plantation areas into a ‘profit for doing nothing’ carbon credit scheme. The GPS government has also offered the company a 30 year extension to just ‘sit back and earn’. How come?…..
A new battleground has opened up between the Sarawak political establishment and native communities with the announcement of new ‘green’ dam projects which have prompted a sudden rush to survey and extinguish native land rights in Baram……
This latest all round episode of further hoodwinking presents just one more reason why the people of Sabah, particularly the short-changed indigenous landowners who are being siren’d with seductive promises of making “billions from zero”, should (like climate NGOs) take everything Kitingan says with a very large pinch of salt.
Exclusive research reveals no less than 15 of the leading carbon credit companies operate as opaque institutions located in offshore jurisdictions, thereby withholding from users who the shareholders and beneficiaries are……
As a shipload of mysterious timber extracted from Papua New Guinea is impounded in Bintulu we look at how the carbon speculators are also targeting the poor communities of that nation. This week one local Governor threw out a project he labelled a “scam” and future carbon credit deals have been suspended. A lesson for Malaysia?…..
Yesterday’s appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People by no less than 19 civil society organisations, including WWF Malaysia, the Centre for International Environmental Law and South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership, is a damning document. It demands intervention by the international peace organisation over the state’s bogus ‘Nature Conservation Agreement’
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate….
The Sabah Coalition Government has backtracked Into chaos over the $80 Billion Carbon Cowboy Heist Attempt, with law officers seeking to blame ‘misinformation’ by international media as in-fighting breaks out over a scandalous attempt to corner the carbon market ….
Sarawak’s own Native Land Rights and its remaining forest wealth have, like in Sabah, been put under renewed threat by the plans announced by the newly self-empowered Chief Minister to cash in on the Carbon Credit market..
A secret one hundred year ‘conservation’ and ‘carbon credit’ deal for Sabah’s rainforests signed off by the Deputy Chief Minister has been estimated at a profit value of $80 BILLION, of which 30% was assigned under confidential terms’ to a small company owned by a known associate. He is threatening action against those who have spilt the beans……
