THE a companying picture is deceptive of a beautiful lake but is in fact a deadly cocktail of heavy metals laden waste acidic water leftover from the Mamut Copper Mine at Ranau.
It is a constant reminder of the slack legislation and poor understanding of the enviromental costs and effects in the 1970s that allowed the only Malaysian open pit copper mine to operate in Sabah.
The law has since been tightened up in the 1990s with the amended Sabah Mining Ordinance which required the setting up of a rehabitation fund after the mining operation has ceased.
But in the meantime, the Mamut Copper Mine and the Lohan Tailings Dam problem remains
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