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Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 03:29 PM by truedelphi
WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS -- 1997
NEWS BRIEF: "Malaysia to Battle Smog With Cyclones", by Chen May Yee, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal,
Thursday, November 13, 1997, page A19.
"KULA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's war on smog is about to get a new twist. The government wants to create man-made cyclones to scrub away the haze that has plagued Malaysia since July. 'We will use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air', said Datuk Law Hieng Ding, minister for science, technology and the environment. The plan calls for the use of new Russian technology to create cyclones -- the giant storms also known as typhoons and hurricanes -- to cause torrential rains, washing the smoke out of the air.
The Malaysian cabinet and the finance minister have approved the plan, Datuk Law said. A Malaysian company, BioCure Sdn. Bhd., will sign a memorandum of understanding soon with a government-owned Russian party to produce the cyclone. "Datuk Law declined to disclose the size of the cyclone to be generated, or the mechanism. 'The details I don't have', he said. He did say, though, that the cyclone generated would be 'quite strong'.
Datuk Law also declined to disclose the price of creating the cyclone."
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There is also much speculation on the web about the disastrous course of action taken earlier this year by our nation's own "beloved" Army Corp of Engineers. This involved a rural area known as the Bird's Nest, though I am forgetting if it was in Arkansas or in Alabama. People were advised that actions that were about to be taken by the Corp would flood them out. They were given a few days notice that they needed to leave their homes and farms as those would be flooded out.
The Army Corp of Engineers had a spokesperson who was telling people that the Corp had no choice - it was either sacrifice these people's homes and farms or else let flood water overtake American cities.
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