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Friday, April 3, 2015

Selangor’s water restructuring deadline pushed to April 30

If the deadline is not met, the Federal Government will take necessary action to ensure the national interests of the people are protected.
selangor_water_new_600KUALA LUMPUR: The Selangor government has up to April 30 to respond on extending the cut-off date for the Master Agreement on the Selangor water supply industry restructuring, said Energy, Green, Technology and Water Minister Maximus Ongkili today.
Failing this, he said, the Federal Government would take the view that the Selangor government was not interested to take up the offer on the restructuring exercise and complete takeover of the concessionaires in Selangor as contained in the Master Agreement.
He said after the deadline, the Federal Government would take the necessary action required under the Water Services Industry Act 2008 (WSIA) and other relevant laws to ensure the national interests and welfare of the people were protected.
“To ensure the security of water supply and completion of all planned projects including mitigation measures, we are hopeful that the spirit of cooperation as upheld by the Selangor Government in the past will continue to prevail,” he said after visiting the Langat 2 Water Treatment Plant in Hulu Langat near here.
Ongkili said the cut-off date for the Master Agreement had been extended twice as it lapsed on March 9 but the Selangor government did not agree to extend it further to complete the Master Agreement’s implementation.
“I have even personally written to Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali on March 12 asking him to rethink his decision not to extend the cut­-off date of the Master Agreement as well as on outstanding matters that need to be resolved. However to date, I have not received a formal reply from the Menteri Besar,” he said.
Ongkili said the Federal Government valued very much the royal address by the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah at the opening of the state legislative assembly sitting on March 30, in which he expressed concern on the impact of all the delays and politicking to the lives of people of Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya as well as on business.
“We hope the Selangor Government will take heed of His Highness’ advice that the Master Agreement is implemented fully and to ensure security of water supply as planned,” he said.
Ongkili said his ministry maintained that the parties involved should respect and adhere to the contents of the Master Agreement. “There are points in the agreement that require fine-tuning to the satisfaction of both parties,” he said, adding that the matters were pertaining to land and other water assets, which had already been agreed upon during discussions and negotiations in the crafting of the Master Agreement.
“We have not changed the goal posts nor added any new items in the agreement.All the Selangor Government needs to do is to comply to the terms,” he said.
Specifically, he said, they continued to claim that the land on which the Bukit Nenas and Semenyih plants sit belong to Selangor, which by law was a baseless claim.
Ongkili said the matters needed to be sorted out otherwise the Master Agreement would collapse and the Federal Government would have to revert to other options including legal recourse to exercise its right.
Discussions in the last two years have facilitated the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the Selangor water restructuring on February 26 last year, a heads of agreement (HoA) on August 1 and finally the Master Agreement on September 2.
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