It was the one company recently identified with a direct link to Indonesian companies involved in the fires.
\n\nPhotos via Mothership, Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana/Facebook, APP.
\n\nAbout 12 years after the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act (THPA) was enacted and 11 years since the last serious haze episode in 2015, Indonesia's neighbouring countries, including Singapore, are once again stricken by smog from forest fires that are raging across Kalimantan and Sumatra.
\n\nUnder the THPA, Singapore's government has so far sent 10 companies legal notices, including two entities of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP): Asia Pulp and Paper Company Limited and Asia Pulp and Paper Company (China) Limited.
\n\nAPP informed Mothership that they "are cooperating with the authorities" and "are reviewing the notices" and will respond to National Environment Agency (NEA) as required.
\n\nPrior to that, preventive measure notices were also issued by the National Environment Agency (NEA) to 10 other companies, asking them to stop burning and take action to extinguish fires.
\n\nIf APP sounds familiar to you, they were explicitly named by Senior Minister K Shanmugam in having a buyer relationship at a Oct. 19 doorstop.
\n\n"We will also look beyond individual concession holders: to large corporate groups, and persons…
Original source: https://mothership.sg/
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