SUPP will fight for our rights and ownership of our oil and gas

suppadmin | June 4, 2018

SUPP has anticipated this maneuver by Pakatan Harapan on Petronas seeking Court declaration on PDA 1974 in the event if they rule Putrajaya, and that was why we were promoting the awareness during GE14 campaign among fellow Sarawakian about the urgency for building a Stronger Sarawak against such scenario.”

In a recent statement, Dr Sim “maintains the firm stand that all land including the natural resources (oil and gas) found in the seabed and subsoils in Sarawak’s Continental Shelf belongs to Sarawak as its rightful owner and not Petronas. Such right was established in the Sarawak (Alteration of Boundaries) Order in Council 1954 made on 24th June 1954, and the same right was preserved in the Federal Constitution.”

“Nevertheless since the Proclamation of Emergency in 1969, our oil rights were forcibly taken away by the Federal government through the Petroleum Mining Act 1966, the Continental Shelf Act 1966 and the Petroleum Development Act 1974! But with the emergency laws being lifted in 2012, and the PDA 1974 was passed without the consent of Sarawak State Assembly, the ownership of the oil and gas shall fall back to Sarawak.”

“SUPP promises to fight to the end for the return of our rights and the ownership of our oil and gas. As we were given the mandate to be part of the Sarawak Government in the last Sarawak election in 2016, we will not back down from our promises. We cannot allow a government linked corporation to claim its rights over our sovereignty in oil resources in order to siphon our wealth out to the Peninsula again.”

“We also hope that all Sarawakians should stand together to state our objections against such claims by Petronas to give full support to the Sarawak Government in defending our rights in our own oil resources.”