Kudos to Satem for his now famous warning against illegal logging

Monitoring logging activity: Police personnel checking on the logs that were seized during a raid at a sawmill in Kuching. - filepic

ONE topic that had been widely expected to dominate the just-concluded State Legislative Assembly sitting was the oil and gas royalty issue.

After all, the Assembly had approved a resolution in May seeking an increase in the royalty from the present 5% to 20% and the state government subsequently began talks with Petronas on the matter.