Hill clearing worries nearby residents

RESIDENTS of Sri Ivori apartments and Desa Ixora medium-cost units are seeing red over the clearing and open burning of trees on the hill behind their blocks in Bandar Baru Air Itam, Penang.

“The burning has become so bad that the smoke would blow into our units. And then about two weeks back, I saw tractors going up the hillslope to clear the trees,” said a resident, who declined to be named.