KUALA LUMPUR — Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia’s premier energy provider today announced that they were taking legal action against the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) for organising the Earth Hour, a global movement that makes a stand against climate change by turning off all non-essential lights and electrical equipment for an hour every year.
In a Press conference, TNB president and CEO Dato’ Sri Che Khalib Mohd Noh said that the annual worldwide symbolic gesture, which this year would be observed this Saturday at 8.30pm, is nothing more than an ‘arrogant and thoughtless viral movement’ aimed to hurt power companies such as TNB.
“Obviously these green-minded fellows think they’re really cute, organising such an irresponsible campaign,” said Che Khalib angrily. “They say ‘turn off your lights for an hour’ and people do. I bet that really makes them feel all powerful.
“What these western colonialists fail to grasp is how such drastic action affects the poor companies like us. One hour of unused electricity means an hour of wastage for TNB. Did you know that last year’s Earth Hour costed us millions in unrealised revenue?” asked Che Khalib, seething.
“How do you think that affected our production? We couldn’t exactly turn off our power plants just because a large number of Malaysians turn off their lights at the same time. So imagine all that wasted energy.
“This year, we expect even more people to fall for this global con-job,” added Che Khalib. “So there’ll be more lights turned off. KL alone would be engulfed in darkness. Yes, sure, it may seem fun to some, running around in complete darkness. But that also means TNB would get less money. Tell me, what am I supposed to say to the kids of this electrical technician when we can’t give bonus this year?” asked Che Khalib, as he pointed to a TNB staff manning the lights for the Press conference.
He added, “In light of such inconsiderate actions by these tree huggers, TNB has no choice but to take legal action against the Earth Hour organisers, WWF. We’ll wait for our accountants to come back with the loss figure after this year’s Earth Hour, and we plan to sue them for that same amount. We may even add a hundred million ringgit or so, to teach them a lesson.”
Che Khalib also reminded Malaysians to ignore the Earth Hour, calling it a ‘cultural invasion, a concerted assault by extreme liberal forces aimed to destabilise poorer nations’.
“We are Malaysians, and we should be proud of our lights. Every night we should go out and see the beautiful sparkling lights in our city skylines. Don’t be ashamed of the lights,” said Che Khalib, as he unveiled a set of pictures showing the Petronas Twin Towers and the surrounding buildings consequently going dark during last year’s Earth Hour.
DARK TIMES: KLCC buildings going dark last year
“See this? See how ugly, gloomy and dark the last picture is? God knows how many people tripped over things and hurt themselves in the complete darkness, not to mention the number of bad people going around doing naughty things, knowing the authorities could not see them.
“Let’s reverse the order of these pictures this year, and fight for the rights to our lights,” continued Che Khalib. “Let’s unite as 1Malaysia, and tell these green terrorists that we will not go dark! We will not switch off! Let’s tell them that we love our lights!
“POWERRR… EXTREME!” he screamed, as powerful clusters of foglamps flooded the conference room with ultra-bright and hot light, temporarily blinding everyone present, and signalling the end of the Press conference.
-http://nose4news.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/tnb-to-sue-wwf-over-earth-hour/-
MY OPINION~
sad~just sad~
How come such embarassment will happen?
Should we quote TNB as selfish?
What ever spoken by this so-called CEO in front of the MEDIA is absolutely DISASTER to all malaysians..
Don't this CEO (asume he is a malaysian)..know what about globalisation?
Nowadays, even international level business corporations also start to design their product to be more ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY~
Yet .........
this pathetic CEO talk about 'how such drastic action affects the poor companies INCOME'
(NOTE: are you, as a CEO, quoting your company as a poor company?)
if this ain't 'SELFISH'..
i have no any more appropriate vocabulary to describe this action~
PATHETIC!!
the box (container) of the masks...
the 5 masks...
make me super pissed off.!!!
my folks stil wan me to like tat place..go to hell!!!
sienz la..
a place like a plan spoiler..
once go there like sign contract gotta miss lotz of activity..
everytime oso like tat..
tell my folks i miss activities,
they say i m always bz going out with friends pula..
WTH!!!
tell them i DIDN'Tgo basketball, DIDN'T go yamcha, DIDN'T go movie, DIDN'T go shopping all becz they(parents) wan go seremban....
n u(parents) accused ME tat i have many activities..
!"£$%£"!"£$%^
y u DIN u MENTIONED TAT U choosed date WISELY..?
i wan go out u choose tat date?
a week be4, aweek later, nobody ask me out..?
but juz tis week?
n u choosed THIS PARTICULAR WEEKEND to go to tat d*mn studid place..?
!"£$%$£"!"£$%$£"!
NVM!!
summore wan giv some empty promises..
before going, u promised sunday bring me go BR eat ice-cream..
at last..?
another empty promise..
before going , u promised sunday before 8pm i can reach home..
at last..?
11.37pm reach home..
I tell u i m lonely there,
u say i put friends before family..
I tell u i cant on9 there,
u tell me to learn to live without computer..
I tell u i m boring there..
u tell me to get used to it..
I say i dun like to go to seremban,
u tell me to learn to like tat place..
N THIS IS WHAT U CAN SHOW ME ABOUT SEREMBAN>>?
a place tat is BORING, PLAN SPOILLER n MAKING MY PARENTS TO MAKE EMPTY PROMISES..?
HATE THIS PLACE FULLY!!
they went to seremban juz to make new year biscuits..
like our own house dun have the apparatus to make biscuits
in fact, v have it in our own house..WTH!!!
SUPER DUPER F*****G PISSED OFF WITH THIS STUPID PLACE>>!!!!