What Our Clients Say About Working with Cahaya Green

"We instructed Cahaya Green for a Detailed EIA submission in Sandakan involving a coastal infrastructure project. Their legal review of the consultant's draft caught two procedural gaps that would almost certainly have triggered a DOE request for additional information. The submission went through with a single clarification query — which was manageable. I'd been through a much more drawn-out process on a previous project with a different adviser, and the difference was noticeable."

"After we received a show-cause notice from the DOE in relation to an effluent discharge exceedance, we contacted Cahaya Green on a Monday morning. They had reviewed the notice and sent us an initial assessment of our legal position by Wednesday. The clear-headed advice in those first days made a significant difference to how we approached the regulatory response. The matter was resolved without further enforcement action over the following weeks."

"The permit management retainer has simplified our compliance operations considerably. We had been renewing licences in-house but found the DOE's paperwork requirements increasingly complex as the regulations changed. Handing this to Cahaya Green has meant we no longer worry about renewal deadlines, and the quarterly review calls have actually been useful for understanding how recent regulatory updates might affect our air emission reporting obligations."

"What I appreciated was that the advice was specific. We'd spoken to another legal firm before contacting Cahaya Green, and the guidance we received there was quite generic — essentially a summary of the Act without any real insight into how the DOE interprets it in practice. Cahaya Green's team knew the procedural expectations at DOE Sabah specifically, and that precision was exactly what we needed for our Preliminary EIA."

"Our facility had an incident involving scheduled waste disposal that drew DOE attention. Rajan from Cahaya Green guided us through the liability assessment and helped us prepare a remediation plan that was accepted by the DOE within the first round of review. I have to be honest — we were in a fairly uncertain position legally when we first called, and the engagement gave us a structured way to address the situation."

"Azrina's advice on the terms of reference for our palm oil mill EIA was detailed and clearly based on up-to-date DOE guidance. She also flagged that our project boundary would bring it within a distance threshold requiring additional consultation steps — something our environmental consultant had not flagged. That early identification saved us from a submission that would have been returned. The fee for the engagement was well-proportioned to the value of the outcome."