Runner: Using seawater to douse forest fires can harm the trees


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 02 Mar 2014

GEORGE TOWN: A nature lover has claimed that the seawater used to put out forest fires on Penang Hill and Bukit FRU can harm the trees.

Gurdial Singh said that while the water bombing of the forested hills using Bombardier planes was effective, the high salinity of seawater was harmful to hill trees.

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