Yeo: Ministry ready to draft Transboundary Haze Act once Cabinet gives go-ahead
19 September 2019
Its minister, Yeo Bee Yin, said the matter had been discussed at a Cabinet meeting yesterday and if the Cabinet agreed, the ministry would immediately proceed to enact the Act as a long-term resolution in solving haze problems in the country. “I will seek advice from the attorney general on how we can draft this Act and what we can do to make it effective in addressing the haze problem,” she said.
Members of the Malaysian Air Force prepare to carry out a cloud seeding operation at a military airbase in Subang September 19, 2019. — Reuters pic Yeo said if cloud conditions were favourable tomorrow there would be another cloud seeding operation to help improve air quality in Sarawak.
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