SIBU: Due to the transition period, all yellow gas cylinders owners be it households or businesses here are in a fix as no dealers and distributors want to accept their cylinders since last month.
Lanang Member of Parliament Alice Lau Kiong Yieng said after the announcement in November that MyGaz licence would not be renewed when it expired end of November, owners of yellow cylinders found out that they could not exchange them to red cylinders (Petros Niaga) as dealers and distributors would not want to incur a loss of RM200 per cylinder.
“These affected owners are now in a dilemma as they are running out of gas and there are more than one million yellow cylinders in the state,” she said when speaking at the press conference at her Service Centre in Lanang Road here yesterday.
In this connection, the Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker urged the state government to either absorb the cost of 14kg gas cylinders change or renew the gas distribution licence of MyGaz.
“If it can’t absorb the cost, then renew their MyGaz licence so that the distribution of gas through the yellow cylinder can continue,” she asserted.
Lau also called on the GPS assemblymen here to come out with their solutions in overcoming the people’s predicament on the matter.
On Nov 21, Minister of Utilities and Telecommunications Datuk Seri Julaihi Narawi announced in the Sarawak Legislative Assembly that the state government has decided not to renew the LPG distribution licence of MyGaz which expired end of November.
With the non-renewal of the distribution of gas licence, Petros Niaga will control 100 per cent of the LPG market from Dec 1.
