By
: Hiew King Cheu
Two
new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities will be built in
northwestern British Columbia (B.C.) Canada in the next two years by
Malaysia’s national oil company, PETRONAS, which announced Tuesday
that it will spend up to $16 billion (RM50 billion) on the projects.
Petronas
said it will invest between $9 billion to $11 billion to construct
the LNG liquefaction plants, which will be built on Lelu Island, off
the coast of B.C. in the Port Edward district south of Prince Rupert.
Another $5 billion will be invested in a 750 km long pipe, to be
built by TransCanada Corp that will supply gas to the two plants.
The
news was announced by Arif Mahmood, the Petronas Vice-president of
corporate planning in an email to The Associated Press on June 11,
2013.
The
ADUN Luyang Hiew King Cheu said he was shocked to learn that our
country is using such a huge sum of the people’s money to invest
into a foreign country’s gas project. RM52 billion is really a huge
sum of money and how much benefits can this investment in oversea
bring back to our country? Petronas on the other hand why they did
not even consider to put that RM52 billion in Sabah to develop our
oil and gas industries?
In
Sabah, we are desperately in need of such investment in our oil and
gas industries, and yet very sadly, Petronas has ignored this fact
and use our oil money to help other country to develop their gas
industries. It is sad still, Petronas is sending our precious gas to
Bintulu Sarawak while we Sabahans have not benefit from it a bit.
Hiew commented that if this is not a solid proof, then what it is.
The
Petronas should take care of the Sabahan first, and by right we
should be the first one to benefit from our oil and gas production.
It is a known fact that we have been deprived of our wealth extracted
from the ground for many years ago, and now it looks it is going to
be worse. What is the logic for spending our money into helping other
country to developing their LNG projects? What happen to us after 35
years of having oil production in Sabah, and we can’t even have our
own refineries? The hard truth is that Sabah still remains very poor
and backward. We did not enjoy the prosperity, rapid economic growth
and fast development in the state for sure, even though we have such
a huge volume of oil and gas production.
The
Sabahan will have to think double hard about this, and is this the
way that the government and the Petronas should be treating us and
continue to deprive our rights for a better future? Some one must
explain on this and do something about it.
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