Friday, May 15, 2009
Facilities
原料─含金的泥土被送到這裡，加水後抽到山埃槽裡。
八個山埃槽，裡面滿滿的都是山埃液，一個就有三层樓高，這剧毒化學原料萬一發生泄漏，一粒米的份量就可至人於死地的山埃，可讓全劳勿的人死多少次?每天使用1.5噸，共可分成多少份?最致命的是距離民宅那麼近，我們村民的性命真的是凍過水！
如沒錯，這該是置放活性碳的地方。山埃存放在一個一個的container 裡，排成一排，觸目驚心的"sodium cyanide" lable，看了令人心頭一悚！(图片刊於2009年3月28日南洋商報東海岸封面版。)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Cyanide and Raub
Background
Raub is a town full of peacefully wealthy. Due to recently the emerging of Cyanide, the valley is deeply submerged into terrifying. Raub is place we live and growth up, our properties and home are all here in this little valley. There is no reason to move to other places. Mining processing facilities only two kilometers away from residential area, only across the street to be exact, why is the Pahang Mineral and Geoscience Department still approved the application to use this lethal chemical, Cyanide, to extract the gold?
Bukit Koman, a small and old village, born from the soil of gold mining, located inside Raub county, approximately contains four hundred families, totaling residents around three thousands. It is located right in the gold mining area, is indeed a ‘gold plated’ village.
The mining activity started on year 1898, but ceased on year 1963. During this time, the mining was fully controlled by Australian. During year 1970, thousands of hectares of mining land had transferred under the group of (gan mun wah). After he bought the land, occupied the most of it with palm oil but reserved two sectors totaling 600 hectares of the land. During year 1980’s, (gan mun wah) rent the reserved mining land to Chinese gold miner to mine the gold via gravity separation approach. During year 1990, the company taken the land back, but founded company to mine the gold by themselves.
Son of (gmw), Andrew Kam, created Peninsular Gold Limited company, which is listed in London Exchange, and wholly own Raub Australian Gold Mining Sdn. Bhd., fully responsible in the mining activity. The other shareholders including Pahang royal Princess, Tengku Puteri Seri Lela Manja and her ex-husband Mohd Moiz. Pahang Development Board (Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Pahang) is their partners.
Chronologically events
| 21st August 2006 | Raub Australian Gold Mining Sdn. Bhd. successfully obtained approval from Pahang Mineral and Geoscience Department to use Cyanide in the mining area inside Bukit Koman. |
| 4th December 2006 | After the villages got to know the lethalness and impact of the Cyanide, the villages formed Objection of Cyanide use in Gold Mining in Bukit Koman Committee, aggressively sending the SOS signal to all people for help, gathering help to start the bitter war with Cyanide to save the villages. At the same time, petition is also started and 10 thousands signatures are actually collected with the petition. |
| 2nd March 2007 | Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob officiate the break soil ceremony of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Sdn. Bhd. Carbon-In Leach factory. VIP of the event including Pahang Princess ex-husband Mohd. Moiz and Raub Parliament YB Dato Dr. Ng Yen Yen. |
| May 2007 | The committee submitted letter to Prime Minister YAB Dato Abdullah Badawi, Minister of Ministry of Energy, Water and Communication YB Dato Lim Kim Aik and President of MCA, YB Dato Wong Ka Ting and request for attention in this matter, meet the committee for further discussion as well as presenting the memorandum including the signed petition of 10 thousands signatures. The memorandum also submitted to Raub Parliament YB Dato Dr Ng Yan Yan, Pahang MCA State Chief, YB Dato Chan Kong Choy, Chief of MCA Youth cum Bentong Parliament YB Dato Leow Chong Lai. But no respond was obtained. |
| July 2007 | Committee meet with President of Friends of the Earth Malaysia, Meena Raman in |
| 21st March 2008 | Committee file a law suit with high court of |
| February 2009 | Raub Australian Gold Mining Sdn. Bhd. started the mining process with Cyanide. Residents started to notice sting smell. Since then, many residents started to experience insomnia, vomiting, dizziness and other abnormal symptoms. The total number of report of abnormal symptoms has more than 200 cases. |
| 8th March 2009 | Hundreds of villages attended the Anti Cyanide Gathering and put up banner to reflect their determination to say NO to Cyanide. Some of the villages opt to migrate away from Bukit Koman to stay away from this lethal village. |
| 23rd March 2009 | Pahang Exco Dato Ho Kee Mum published the report after cursory investigation by department of environment, saying there is no smell of Cyanide is detected. |
| 25th March 2009 | Committee and ADUN Raub, Mr. Chong Shao Aun report the event to Anti Corruption, requesting to interfere with the process of gold mining using Cyanide of the mining company. |
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Villages of Bukit Koman choose to go for peaceful demonstration; due to their body has triggered the alarm of poisoning of Cyanide. Otherwise, there would not be more than 200 cases of abnormal symptoms. Villages really has no confidence in mining company and their promises that their operations would not pollute the environment as well as the water resources when the company clearly even cannot control the abnormal smell emitted from the mining processing facilities.
The mining company uses the Cyanide to mine the gold but cannot give any assurance to the villages has been unfair to the resident not only in Bukit Koman, but whole Raub even other adjunctive districts such as Lipis etc. IF, the Cyanide is leaked to the water resources, similar as the smell has leaked to the open air, then only after this the government put a stop in using the Cyanide, would that be a reasonable trade off or exchange or price to pay? The consequence will be everyone nightmare when the impact of Cyanide pollution will produce monstrosity children for the coming generations! Until then, everything would be too late.
What the villages want is a reasonable solution. The highest priority is to stop the Cyanide mining process similar to suicide slowly. No lip promises but black and white promises. Only the Cyanide mining process is stopped and leaves Bukit Koman forever, is the final answer that villages is expecting.
Unfortunately, that sincerity has not been seen from the government. How many more demonstration would require in order to see more positive responses?
What Is Cyanide
· sodium cyanide (NaCN)
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· White, hygroscopic crystalline powder, with characteristic odour. Odourless when dry.
· Cyanide solutions readily bond with gold, silver and other metals
· Usually stored and transported as a solid. It is stable when dry.
· Dissolve in water to produce toxic cyanide gas. HCN (Hydrogen Cyanide)
· Cyanide may also result in deforestation, soil erosion, land slides, and contamination of underground water.
One teaspoon of a 2% solution can kill a person.
· The substance decomposes rapidly on contact with acids, and slowly on contact with water, moisture or carbon dioxide producing hydrogen cyanide
· Cyanide is a powerful solvent that breaks down heavy metals – such as mercury, cadmium, chromium, and lead – that end up as waste products that need to be dumped.
· Chemical dangers
One teaspoon of a 2% solution can kill a person.
· Cyanide is highly toxic, rapidly acting, potentially deadly chemical
· The substance can be absorbed into the body by inhalation, through the skin and by ingestion.
· prevents the cells of the body from using oxygen. When this happens, the cells die.
· cause effects on the cellular respiration, resulting in convulsions and unconsciousness
· more harmful to the heart and brain than to other organs because the heart and brain use a lot of oxygen.
· 20ppm/ per cubic meter in air (mg/m3)
· Cyanide is the killing agent used in gas chambers.
· When the density of HCN is 20 ppm, after few hours human will experience symptoms of poison dead
· Total Cyanide composition on surface water must not be more then 0.2mg/L, when the Cyanide composition is more than 0.5mg/L, 20% of the fish will be dead in two hours, all fish will be dead in 24 hours.
· Notorious chemical weapons used in Second World War, has been widely used by Nazi in the detention facilities and channel the gas to chamber which is a counterfeit bath room. The weapon has kill millions of Jews.
· Has been considered potential terrorist weapon.
· Potassium Cyanide has been used in mercy killing. Subject will be dead in 10 seconds after the drug has been injected or taken via oral.
Although cyanide is lethal in small doses, many tons are used in mineral extraction.
The asserted benefits of mining do not outweigh the potential for permanent environmental damage.
Use of Cyanide in Mining Industries
- Carbon In Leach Gold Recovery Plant.
- Approximately 85% of the gold is recovered in the plant.
I. The crushed ore is fed to tanks of cyanide solution,
II. The gold is dissolved in the cyanide.
III. The pregnant solution is then transferred to a series of tanks, where carbon is added.
IV. The gold is adsorbed onto the surface of the carbon.
V. The carbon, with gold attached, is removed by screening.
VI. The gold bearing carbon is then introduced into a heated sodium hydroxide-cyanide-water solution where the gold is dissovled.
VII. This concentrated solution is passed through a series of electrowinning cells, where the gold quickly plates (in about 3 minutes) onto the stainless steel cathodes.
VIII. The gold is washed from the cathodes, with high pressure sprays, dried and melted, to be poured into molds for gold bricks, or ingots.
How does cyanide affect living organisms, environment and the communities
In a letter replying to Friend to Earth
According to the reply, the mining company will use concentration of 350mg/L Cyanide solution to extract gold from the ore. Gold will be reclaimed via electrolysis. The solution in the vats will be recycled. Only purified water will be discharged to abandoned pond left over from previous mining activity.
The reply also pointed out that “once discharged to the abandoned pond, the pond water will contain approximately 0.008% of Cyanide. In the present of sunlight, the Cyanide percentage in the water will be less and less and become totally degraded. The water of the abandon pond will be recycled for subsequent extraction process.”
The reply again pointed out “Cyanide extraction has been widely use in mining industry, including developed country”
| Arguement | Facts |
| Purified water will be channeled to the abandoned lake of previous mining activity. The abandoned lake contains approximately 0.008% Cyanide. | According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), composition in natural water should be controlled below 0.2 ppm. The Cyanide discharged to abandoned lake is 80ppm, which has exceeded the safe level over 400 times! PPM = Part Per Million. |
| Cyanide can breaks down in the presence of sunlight. | 1. In-order to breakdown into other substances, sufficient sunlight and oxygen in the air are needed. Unfortunately, presence of sunlight is always absence due to reasons such as overcast and haze, whereby the process of gold extraction is running 24 hours in 365 days. Cyanide content discharged into pond will accumulate day after day. 2. Both cyanide and acid-mine drainage can find their way into streams and rivers through accidental spills, discharges, dam overflows, and water runoff. It can also seep into groundwater. Leftover cyanide in very small concentrations can harm birds and other wildlife that drink mine pond wastewater. 3. Purified water container Cyanide discharged from the plan contains NH3-N. High concentration of this chemical will provide more nutrient to aquatic organism. This will in turn the increase production of algae which will in turn decrease the penetration of sunlight or visibility of the water. This will decrease the dissolve of oxygen in the water and directly threat the survivor of fish and other organism inside the water. The end result of this situation is that the water will be stink and form of ‘red tide’ or ‘algae bloom’. 4. According to the 5. These breakdown compounds may persist in the environment for an unknown period of time, and there is evidence that some forms of these compounds can accumulate in fish and plant tissues. |
| If managed properly, mining with Cyanide is absolutely safe | In case of any mismanage or neglection, the consequence will be fully transferred to all the innocent villages, furthermore, there is no any party dare enough to guarantee that no accident is going happened. We trade the life of thousands of villages for the profit of certain private organization does not sounds like logical and fair. |
| Operation of Cyanide is in a closed environment. Chances of leakage or contamination is neglect able | The above figure shown an open pit Carbon in Leach process. Content in the vat is mixture of crash ore and sodium cyanide, which the process will generate a very toxic gas, Hydrogen Cyanide. The gas will waft in the air. Since February 2009, the air around the mining facilities is floated with stink chemical smell. Within a month, more than 200 abnormal symptom is reported. The quality of air has triggered the alarm to the people. |
| Mining facilities will bring more job opportunities to Raub | Most of the workers are foreign workers. According to the employed local people, after a period working in the mining facilities, there will be problem with the skin. |
| Water resources will not be contaminated | From year 1898 to year 1963, the mining company has dug seven interconnected mining well. These wells have depth ranging from 600 to 1200 feet, which has formed a network of underground water. Three of the wells are located right below the abandoned lake which the purified water containing Cyanide will be discharged. Furthermore, the Koman river, which runs across the mining will also poses great threats if leakage or contamination. Once that happened, the underground water would not be get away from it. (as figure show) |
| Gold Cyanidation (also known as the cyanide process or the MacArthur-Forrest process) are widely used even in developed countries. | Montana , The Czech Republic has banned the use of cyanide in mining, and both Turkey and Greece have made significant court rulings against issuing permits to mining interests whose projects propose the use of cyanide. The Mining Amendment (Cyanide Leaching) Bill 2000, which would prohibit ore processing by cyanide leaching in gold mining, was entered into the Parliament in Accidents keep on occurring even in developed countries, how can we judge that the approval for their license is accurate? |
| The mining facilities only two meter away from the residential area, in fact only across the street from residential area | Any form of industry must have distance more the 5 km The mining facilities and the ad juncture residential area, does not even have any buffer! How the approval can be obtained by mining facilities which uses first grade poison material, Cyanide, to process which is only few meters away from residential area? In fact close to 1.5 tan of Cyanide is used daily inside the facilities. Is the rules only applicable to certain people but exception can be applied to certain people? |
| Some of the villages and most of the people in Raub have been ignorant on the criticality of the issue. Some assume that this is the trick of someone who wanted to get to the top. | Protection of home was never a political or races or religious oriented. When the home is gone, health is gone and conscious is gone, who is in power is not relevant anymore. |
| Gold Cyanidation Process in Bukit Koman will never affect the village’s health and wealth. | Exposure to high levels of cyanide harms the brain and heart, and may cause coma and death. Exposure to lower levels may result in breathing difficulties, heart pains, vomiting, blood changes, headaches, and enlargement of the thyroid gland, redness and pain to the skin. Exposure to very low concentration of cyanide may cause cancer in people or animals. Can cause skin problem. |
Immediate signs and symptoms of exposure to cyanide
| Exposed to a small amount | Exposure to a large amount |
| o Rapid breathing o Restlessness o Dizziness o Weakness o Headache o Nausea o vomiting o Rapid heart rate o Insomnia o smells bitter almonds o weeping o snotting | o Convulsions o suffocation o Low blood pressure o Slow heart rate o Loss of consciousness o Lung injury o Respiratory failure leading to death |
Cyanide has been the cause of recent environmental disasters at
Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, California, South Dakota, South Carolina, Romania, Guyana, Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Bulgarian, Resulting in massive fish kills and contaminated drinking water; and, no matter what processing method is used at the mine site, we cannot risk the release of even tiny amounts of cyanide into our waterways and fisheries.
Recent examples
1. Zortman-Landusky Mine,
2.
3. Kumtor Gold Mine,
4. Aural Gold Plant,
5. In May 1998, six to seven tons of cyanide-laced tailings spilled from the Homestake Mine into Whitewood Creek in the Black Hills of South Dakota, resulting in a substantial fish kill.
6. The Dakota Mining Company bought the land from the federal government for just $5 per acre (under the General Mining Law of 1872), extracted about $69 million worth of gold over ten years, then filed for bankruptcy in 1998, leaving taxpayers with an estimated $40 million cleanup bill.
7. Before a voter initiative banned the use of cyanide in open pit, cyanide-leach mining in November 1998,
8. The Kendall mine near
9. The Golden Maple mine near
10. In a 1997 lawsuit settlement against Pegasus Gold, the company agreed to spend $34 million to study environmental damage to the groundwater surrounding the Zortman/Landusky mine, to construct an additional water treatment plant, to conduct a public health study, and other measures.
11. 1995 Omai Guyana Collapse of tailings dam.
12. 2000 Baia Mare Romania Collapse of tailings dam.
13. 2000 Tolukuma Papua New Guinea Helicopter dropped crate into rainforest.
Aftermath
- Forced to sell their property after their drinking water was contaminated with cyanide.
- Cyanide use and resulting accidents threaten private property rights and shift the responsibility for cleanup from mining companies to taxpayers.
- When a mining corporation declares bankruptcy, taxpayers are left with the economic burden of reclamation, leaving liabilities for future generations.
武吉公满村民在等着您–至黄燕燕部长的公开信
Saturday, May 2, 2009
尊贵的黄燕燕部长，您好！恭喜您转任旅游部长，得以一展所长。但愿您在忙着往海外推广我国旅游业的同时，也没忘了本国的子民，尤其是在去年大选时，让您成功进入国会的彭亨劳勿国会选区的人民。
我是劳勿县武吉公满新村的一个普通村民。由于工作的缘故，我现时大部分时间居住在雪州；可是在我心中，武吉公满才是我真正的家，那儿有我最亲的家人，还有我成长的印记。
19世纪末至20世纪初，武吉公满因为蓬勃的金矿业而享有一段繁华的历史。随着金矿开采业于上世纪60年代的没落，武吉公满铅华尽洗。近数十年来，这里一直是一个民风淳朴的典型华人新村。
2007年初，安逸静谧的武吉公满新村在相隔40余年后再度成为新闻焦点。劳勿澳洲金矿私人有限公司在我们村民不知情的情况下，取得彭亨矿物及地质科学局的批文，在武吉公满新村的金矿区进行山埃(cyanide)采金。
对于大部分村民，山埃是个陌生的化学名词，有关机构也没有主动向村民讲解山埃的危险性。村民在自行寻找资料后才发现，山埃是一种剧毒物质，人类吸入高浓度山埃，会导致立即停止呼吸而死亡！
面对着自己土生土长的家园，极可能沦为“毒村”的威胁，村民们成立了“反对山埃采集委员会”，积极向外界传达求救讯息。
然而，一个只有区区四百户人家的小村，如何与国际财团及执政机关抗衡？两年前，山埃采金的大业已经在村民的反对声浪中开始进行。
尊贵的，我们不明白，为何矿地距离最近的住家只有两公尺之遥，州政府却可以放一万个心批准金矿公司以致命的山埃采金？山埃一旦泄漏至湖中或是空气中，谁来保障我们家人的性命与安全？
尊贵的，您曾经安抚我们：“只要山埃公司按规则行事，山埃采矿便不成问题。”可是，如果有人不按规则行事呢？就算人人都奉公守法，有谁可以担保意外不会发生？
这并非危言耸听，全球曾发生多宗山埃泄漏事件。资料显示，1992年美国卡洛拉多西南部曾发生一种山埃泄漏意外，导致27公里内的鱼类和其他河流生物全部死亡。而我家人居住的地方，离矿场不过区区1公里之遥。
立百病毒的事件，已经给了我们惨痛的教训，更让我们认清，官员口中的“保障”究竟有多大的保障？
过去两年来，人数不多的村民举办群众集会、生活纯朴的村民走上街头、不善辞令的村民召开记者发布会、教育程度不高的村民发表文告。。。一个平民可以做的事情，村民都做了。
村民早前公开邀请您前来本村暂住，不是要为难日理万机的您，而是希望您可以切身体验我们的惶恐不安。我们只希望，有关机构可以停止以山埃采金。
在当权者眼中，或许我们是一群冥顽不灵的刁民，然而，如果今天受到威胁的是您的家人，我想，尊贵的，您也会和我们一样想尽办法保卫我们的至亲、捍卫我们的家园。
采金公司不理会我们、彭亨州政府也不理会我们。尊贵的，您是我们在最高立法机关的代议士，能够为我们请命的，也只有您了。武吉公满三千多位村民，衷心期盼您可以将我们的焦虑，带进内阁向您的同僚反映。
在新首相“人民优先”的施政理念下，我们相信，没有人的声音会被掩盖、没有人的利益会被忽略。敬候您的佳音。
祝您与家人幸福，安康。
武吉公满村民
凌国文上
后注：
这部分不是公开信的内容。只供我抒发悲愤。
上面最后一张照片，是“反对山埃采金工委会”财政张少平先生的出殡仪式。
张先生为了躲避矿场传出的异味，将妻子送到吉隆坡居住，自己则搬到榴莲园去独居。日前被发现毙命于果园内。
警方说他是死于心脏病，与矿场无关。可是，如果不是为了逃离矿场的毒害，他会需要与妻子分隔两地，独自居住，甚至病发之后都没有人发现吗？
村民投诉矿场传出异味，环境局到新村“调查”数小时候就匆匆离开，有人给我们交待吗？
村民带领一名外国环境专家到矿场视察，结果警方以擅闯私人地段为名，扣留了这群年龄介于51至63岁的老村民。
纳吉到茨厂街拍下照、到富都车站喝杯茶、喊两句不知所云的口号、再象征式的“小开放”，你们就急着拍烂手掌，仿佛不一同歌功颂德的就是盲目反对派。
问一问自己的良心，不顾人民死活的政府，值得我支持吗？
再问一问你的良心。如果还有的话。
山埃採金過程應公開
鍾紹安：瞭解味道源頭‧山埃採金過程應公開
2009-03-29 16:01
（彭亨‧勞勿）都賴區州議員鍾紹安歡迎武吉公滿金礦公司以自己的科技技術向村民證實刺鼻異味和氰化物（山埃）採金無關，並出示異味問題的解決方案。
他表示，金礦公司應該把氰化物採金的過程公開讓村民、武吉公滿反毒委員會和國州議員參觀，讓大家親自瞭解，氰化物和其它化學品藥物是否有味道傳出，或是令人感覺不舒服。
“如果金礦公司在短時間內沒有答复，反山埃方面將使用環境局所批准的化學藥物做實地試驗。”
鍾紹安說，村民擔心他們的健康受到危害，這是民生問題，身為人民代議士他不能置之不理；超過300名村民親自到都賴州議席服務中心呈交資料指他們面對喉嚨疼痛、全身不舒服和發癢的現象。
鍾紹安重申，警方有必要介入調查，歡迎各相關單位到極有可能發出異味的地方，包括油棕廠作出調查，以證實刺鼻異味的來處。
丘雪莉：擔心新村親友健康
現居於吉隆坡的丘雪莉指出，她在最近聽說武吉公滿的空氣遭受污染，因此非常擔心武吉公滿新村親友的健康。
她說，雖然她的父母親也已經搬離新村，但是站在人道立場上，大家不應該保持沉默或歪曲事實。
“氰化物採金涉及十餘種化學物，沒有可能化學味道會消失無蹤；勞勿縣沒有甚麼工廠，而油棕廠所傳出的味大家已經熟悉並懂得分辨，刺鼻異味到底從何而來？”
她表示，土地是村民的，大家沒有理由為了一小撮人士的利益而賠上自己的健康或是性命。
韓立運：嗅到異味全身不舒服
村民韓立運投訴，他在上週日嗅到刺鼻異味之後，全身感到不舒服。
韓立運說，更令人擔心的是，他整個人僵硬了3個小時之久。
他展示上半身和大腿部位的紅點時表示，自從嗅到刺鼻味道之後，紅點跟著出現，這種情況令他感到不安和失措。
金礦公司：村民勿擔心‧“山埃採金絕對安全”
金礦公司：村民勿擔心‧“山埃採金絕對安全”
（彭亨‧勞勿）勞勿澳洲金礦有限公司強調，公司是在絕對安全的情況下進行山埃採金工作，村民不必擔心。
為了證明山埃採金和最近武吉公滿新村所出現的刺鼻異味無關，此公司特此安排數位工廠員工和村民，通過報界指出，山埃並沒有味道，員工們在工作時也沒有嗅到異味。
村民：沒發出臭味
村民洪慰延以金礦公司前員工身份指出，他曾在試驗室裡作出試驗，發現山埃採金並沒有發出類似村民所說的難嗅臭味。
“我曾問過作出投訴的村民，臭味來自何方，感覺如何，他們也說不出來。”
萬祥則表示，村民不斷指武吉公滿新村出現刺鼻味道，使到來新村的遊客減少了。
他說，以往每逢週六和週日，到來這裡的遊客很多，如今減少了；希望大家在沒有充份的證據之下，胡亂指臭味來自金礦公司，這是非常不公平的指責。
另外，余奕君表示，他住在工廠附近，但是從來沒有嗅過難聞的味道。
管工：工作年餘沒不妥
工廠場地管工余得良指出，以科學原理來說，空氣是一直上飄，臭味不可能飄到新巴力新村。
“我在這裡工作一年多，並沒有發覺任何異狀況，因此村民勿過於擔心。”
負責建築工程的蔡桂友說，公司常向他們作出安全的匯報和解釋，他們對公司的安全預防工作非常有信心。
工友：不含任何味道
水喉和電纜工友余偉康表示，他偶爾工作至凌晨三四時，不管是白天或晚上，從來沒有嗅過難以忍受的異味。
友族工友克里斯南、沙拉哇南、沙哈里和沙巴林異口同聲指出，山埃不含任何味道，其它化學物可能會有酸性味道，但是不至於讓人感覺不妥，更何況所有的化學物混合過程都由專家監督和機器操作，所有的氣體都無法向外擴散。
“發出噪音異味指責不實”
經理：交警方處理
金礦經理萬安努亞指出，公司已經針對都賴區州議員鍾紹安的報案書，在3月24日向警方報案。
他說，工廠所有的化學物使用有批准執照，廠方根據法律管制使用。所有的外勞都是合法外勞。
“他們指工廠的操作導致噪音和化學異味的出現，這是不確實的說法。公司已經報了警，一切交由警方去處理。”
萬安努亞表示，衛生局、環境局，以及土地及礦物局曾派來到來進行檢查，廠方隨時歡迎他們到來作出相關評估。
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政府机关应与村民对话
| 【党团文告／民政党】民政党中央公共卫生及社会发展主任黄恭才吁请彭亨州矿物与地质科学局及政府相关单位与劳勿武吉公满新村“反对山埃采金委员会”对话，寻求对策解除村民对山埃（cyanide）采金活动存有的各项疑虑。 黄恭才也是彭亨州吉打里区州议员，他说，当局有必要向村民讲解山埃对人体健康造成的危害，并一一列出当初批准金矿公司在武吉公满新村金矿区采金的申请程序及安全标准等详情。 “一些村民指金矿公司在他们不知情的情况下，取得彭亨矿物与地质科学局的批文，在武吉公满新村的金矿区以山埃采金；因此，当局有必要向村民作进一步解释，以化解村民心中的疑虑。”  黄恭才发文告指出，由于大部分村民不很了解山埃的危害性，而是经过自行寻找资料后才发现山埃是一种剧毒物质，顿时十分担忧，才凝集村民的力量成立“反对山埃采金委员会”，积极向外界传达求救讯息。他认为相关单位有必要主动向村民讲解山埃的危险性，不应不理村民的心声，一再任由事情演变成越来越严重，落到一发不可收拾的局面。 黄恭才表示理解村民面对着土生土长的家园极可能沦为“毒村”的威胁，而采取一系列抗议行动的焦虑心情，因此希望当局早日派员向村民讲解实情，共同寻求有助于解决问题的良策。 他认为当局必须深入调查任何危害人体健康和安全化学物的使用，以确保村民居住环境的安全；他也希望“反对山埃采金委员会”劝请村民保持冷静，以理性态度寻求双嬴的解决方案。 |
如有不测，找这些人算帐
【本刊曾薛霏撰述】已故彭亨劳勿反对山埃采金工委会财政张少平的家属寻获张少平的多则笔记，其中一则更点名间接害死他的人，但家属基于敏感而不愿公布这个名字。此外，张少平的长子张竹生对警方在解剖报告尚未出炉前就急着撇清其父死于山埃中毒，宣称乃死于心脏病的举措深感不满！
不过，张竹生允许《独立新闻在线》刊登其父遗下的其中一则笔记，以显示张少平矢志反对山埃采金的决心。张少平在这张志期2007年3月3日的笔记中写道：“背水一战决不妥协。为了坚持真理和公义，不怕强权。”
张竹生表示，警方也没有通知他该联络哪位警员或医生。由于当时面对丧父之痛，心烦意乱的张竹生没有记下警官的名字。
他也指出，其实山埃采金不但危害武吉公满和劳勿居民，在从吉隆坡运载山埃到武吉公满，途经高速公路和住宅区的道路，若发生公路意外，而粒状山埃又遇水，剧毒将污染四周的环境。三百人送殡作沉默抗议
【本刊陈慧思撰述／摄影】大约300人今午在烈日下，送彭亨州劳勿武吉公满反山埃委员会财政张少平最后一程。送殡的人群张起写着“壮志未酬，反毒尚未成功，大家必须战斗到底”的布条，从张少平的住家，拉灵车走出村口，到约一公里外的劳勿医院，向这位最先发起反山埃运动的村民致以最后的敬意。
张少平的骤然离世令村民深感悲愤及惋惜。村民张起写着“壮志未酬，反毒尚未成功，大家必须战斗到底”的布条送殡，向这位反毒斗士致敬，同时向山埃采金作沉默的抗议。
陈莲娣（右图）接受《独立新闻在线》访问时叙述，自从金矿业主使用山埃采金之后，他们从早到晚都间歇性地嗅到一阵异味，异味时薄时浓，导致他们喉咙发痒、呼吸困难，有时晚上嗅到异味，还会从睡梦中醒来。
她说：“我们简直就是有家归不得啊！”
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