Back it up! #2 Khalid Al-Hajri
WOOOOOOO Hoooooooooooo Khalid Al-Hajri!
You WILL find this one in the Kuwait Times Online, by clicking right here.
Khalid Al-Hajri, representing The Green LIne Environmental Group, held a press conference and demonstrated how the Wafra Agricultural Area – and all of Kuwait – faces an environmental disaster due to irresponsible disposal of petroleum related wastage.
This takes a bucket full of courage, in a nation where so much wealth is produced by petroleum. And Khalid Al-Hajri didn’t just go on record giving an emotional speech, no. He had graphs and maps and photos – he had the FACTS to back up his assertions.
And bravo to the Kuwait Times for giving him page 3 coverage.
The truth is that I don’t understand the whole of the report. I understand that there are problems with oil products being illegally dumped in the al Wafra farm area and it could have a devastating impact on the farming there. And – I understand that their injecting the oil production by-products deep into the earth NEAR THE SAUDI – KUWAITI BORDER could cause EARTHQUAKES.
Hmmmmmm. . . . didn’t we just have an earthquake? And where was it? Oh . . . yeh! Near the Kuwaiti – Saudi border, wasn’t it?
And worst case of all, these by products pollute the underground aquifer.
I applaud people like Khalid Al-Hajri who care about their country enough to do their homework, and then to speak up in a responsible way to bring our attention to practices that can hurt Kuwait in the future.
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It was Front Page on the Arab Times – whcih was great.
Of course all Kuwait govt entities – public auth for this and that, KOC etc denied wrongdoing stating nothing was wrong there
I suggest people stop purchasing and consuming kuwait-wafra goods and just go to sultan and stock up on foreign fruits and vegetables – i personally like my potatoes devoid of oil pollutants and bacteria
Oh, that just makes me ill. I prefer local grown, always. There is a farm, Jasmine Farms, that grows the best spinach I have ever tasted, anywhere (when I can get it, when it is cooler here and the farm grows it) and some absolutely fabulous basil . . . does anyone know where Jasmine Farms is? Is it in Wafra? 😦
It might be Yasmine Farms . . . I gets confused sometimes.
This is great, bravo. I had a feeling the earthquake was caused by something like this. Not too long ago there was a news article posted about something similar in Sweden where the whole city shook because a research company was doing some drilling further away! I can’t find the article now, I’m sure a google search would get some results.
Glad you like this, N. It breaks my heart to see young adult Kuwaitis getting discouraged. All this turbulence, scandal, wasta, corruption, religious bickering – it’s all part of a long process. I want to see the young people committing, getting involved. It takes a lot of self-discipline and a lot of patience to make change, lasting change being incremental, but I see positive signs. I love that this guy make a claim and backed it up, and that he got the press. I also love all the food inspectors – what a tough job – fining those who are not conforming to the rules.
We just need to work a little on the police and the legal system, so that it works effectively, and blindly. We’re still working on that in the US, too.
Yep it takes time. And there are really great people out here! I’m sure we can even call them heroes! But everyone is disappointed, discouraged, and negative. I get like that too sometimes. It happens.
Yes. We can call them heroes. They won’t call themselves that – they think they’re just doing their jobs. And doing jobs that keep the public safe – that is heroic.