Haze continues to envelop Penang

There's no respite from the thick haze that's currently enveloping Penang. This was the breath-taking view from the Equatorial Hotel in Bukit Jambul yesterday morning. You can see everything but the bridge. Thick, uniformly greyish-yellow haze.


And below, the Penang Bridge at its mid-span late yesterday afternoon. Where's the view? Only God knows....


Meanwhile, this is an excerpt from a news report from the Radio Australia website:

Environment officials in Malaysia say forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra could cause heavy smog in Malaysia.

The head of Malaysia's environmental department says the government is drafting plans to prevent any open burning during the dry season, to avoid adding to any smog drifting over from Sumatra.

Like I mentioned yesterday in a comment on another blog: "... years and years of haze and the blardy department is still studying how to form a committee to look into deciding how best to have a sub-committee to work on the purchase of computers to write their student reports on their on-going investigations into the probability of open burning in Sumatra causing the haze in Malaysia before the department will finally agree that another committee should be set up to verify the recommendations of the earlier committee...."

What, lah!