Residents’ group denies community backed reclamation for landfill project
A residents’ group has rubbished claims that residents had backed the reclamation at the Jelutong landfill to rehabilitate the island’s only sanitary landfill, calling them “completely untrue”.
Protect Karpal Singh Drive also claimed that they had been kept in the dark over plans for the RM1 billion project.
The group’s spokesman Dr K Ganesh said residents were never consulted on the original environmental impact assessment (EIA) and had not been shown the revised EIA resubmitted by the developer to the environment department.
“But they suddenly claim that the revised EIA is done and that 80% of the residents were agreeable. This is a mockery.
“We want to be consulted properly. This affects our families and our lives,” he told reporters after handing over a memo to the Penang chief minister’s representative, Yap Li Ling, and…
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