Sungai Salak pollution: DOE suspends factory operation

BernamaPublished: Oct 30, 2020 4:52 AM

The Department of Environment (DOE) has opened an investigation paper and issued a stop-work order on a food-based factory, suspected of causing oil pollution in Sungai Balak, Selangor.

Its director-general Norlin Jaafar (above) said the action was taken after the factory was found to have released whitish effluents into the river through an underground pipeline, following a check at the site...

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