What is our govt doing about the sand shortage?
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Price has gone beyond 3-fold now ...
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Are you reclaiming land? Are you making a huge gigantic sandcastles?
If not.. then diam diam! -
I worry that your father might lose his job if we really run out of sand.
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so much generalising is not good.Originally posted by Kranji Babe:I worry that your father might lose his job if we really run out of sand.
Let's take our business elsewhere. Indonesia is trying to play cowboy diplomacy, why should we be cowed by their Trade Minister who grew up and studied in Singapore at SMSS..
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yaa... we do not want your father to lose out on our contracts now do we...Originally posted by Kranji Babe:I worry that your father might lose his job if we really run out of sand. -
You think the govt will tell you everything meh?
When Singapore faced a water shortage, wad did we do? Develop Newater!
Now face sand shortage, I won't be surprised if projects are/ have been underway to employ our advance technologies to develop man-made sand by recycling waste or somethin.......
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our pre cast tunnel all Done @ Malaysia,
circle line all not affected
HDB up grading pre cast also done out side Singapore
IR Sand casino project dig out more sand when they need to have basement level, that area we land filled at least more than 7 years already.
Jurong island also digging more ground for underground Fuel storage
safely 15% of our Singapore island land below hollow,
MRT line, NE line, circle line -
your question is "What is our govt doing about the sand shortage?"Originally posted by Kranji Babe:Price has gone beyond 3-fold now ...
Answer : They have look into alternative source of sands to fill up the gap left by Indonesia ban. On top of that, they had release their stockpile to ease the shortage.
However there is not much they cannot do with the cost of shipping the sand to spore from further than indonesia. -
2.My God!Dunt u know gov already built up huge sands reserve along Bedok Reservoir(north west corner).No other gov built up sands resrerve!!Originally posted by LinYu:your question is "What is our govt doing about the sand shortage?"
Answer : They have look into alternative source of sands to fill up the gap left by Indonesia ban. On top of that, they had release their stockpile to ease the shortage.
However there is not much they cannot do with the cost of shipping the sand to spore from further than indonesia.
Top image:right is Bedok Reservoir
Bottom:left is Paya Lebar Air Base -
Old Chinese Saying...... ''You willing to buy, I willing to sell"
If indoneasia don't want to sell, we just buy from other place..... expensive at 1st. Then indoneasia see that we no care the ban, after some time (month or year) the ban will be lifted...... life goes on..... -
from business point of view, nothing is really wrong. other govt keeps rice reserve so that the price of rice is controlled and cannot be dictated by the unscruplous businessman. similar?Originally posted by lionnoisy:2.My God!Dunt u know gov already built up huge sands reserve along Bedok Reservoir(north west corner).No other gov built up sands resrerve!!
Top image:right is Bedok Reservoir
Bottom:left is Paya Lebar Air Base -
so do our GOV keep rice reserve TOO
it only what our GOV keep in term of grade
if not wrong our rice selling on this island has to match certain % of quota reserve
but let say I imported 100% fragrance @ US$ 450 per metric ton
kept reserve 25% broken white rice @ US$ 150 per metric ton -
price of sands will go up more than 3 times if not the stockpiles
below:
sands reserves at the north west corner of Bedok Reservoir.
Govt releases granite from stockpile to ease disruption in supply
By Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 02 March 2007 -
apparently, Vietnam is more than happy to sell us some of their sand
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what singapore government really want ? i really dunno ...
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more money
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Haha, use something else xD. Who knows, they might just build floating lands LOL?
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Don't worry u ahve the money u ahve the sand... Maybe we buying sand form vietnam???
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I wonder if there's any alternatives to using sand...