The Rape of Penang Goodbye, Tanjung Tokong

This is what they have already done in the sea off Tanjong Tokong

Now they want to steal the sea off Bagan Jermal

On April 11, the Town Planning Department granted approval to E&O Group to begin land reclamation works in Bagan Jermal bay an extension of the big Seri Tanjung Pinang reclamation that has filled up the sea at Pantai Molek, from Island Plaza to Tanjung Tokong.

Now they want more. By the time theyre done, anyone living between Bangan Jermal and Pantai Molek will only have a view of buildings, where they can now look out over the North Channel. Similarly so from Gurney Drive. The view to the cape is already that of houses and skyscrapers, where you now look out over the open sea.

And as for the sea, Gurney Drive now looks over a 400m wide mud flat at low tide, where herons have now found a home.

Soon, only the rich and the privileged who pay E&Os fancy prices will get to view the sea.

This is the horrifying picture of what is coming next

Penang people are being raped of their common heritage the sea belongs to all and both the old and new governments are helping the developers to rip off the community as a whole.

State govt gives away the sea off Bagan Jermal

Reported in The Edge, and followed by The Star, the plans call for reclamation of 740 acres and the creation of two artificial islands. The area involved is more than 1 square miles. It is three times the size of the first phase (top picture).

E&O executive director Eric Chan was quoted in the Star as saying that they would be building residential, commercial, recreational and leisure properties houses, apartments, condominiums, shops, offices, and other stuff you must pay to enjoy, leisure properties.

The value of that square mile: RM12 billion, when developed! .

This nightmare vision of filling in the sea began in 1992, when the project was approved by the previous state Umno-Gerakan government of Koh Tsu Koon. It has just received preliminary approval from the DAP-PKR consortium.

E&Os share price went up by nearly 30 sen after the government approval

This is a truly pernicious development although there will those who will be full of admiration for turning a portion of Penang into a mini-Singapore.

But Penang is not Singapore, as architect, historian and naturalist Lim Chong Keat remarked at a public forum last week, in the context of size of the island, the resources, and the history.

Singapore has ruthlessly made itself over, destroying almost everything of its past, with some quaint bits preserved like theme parks for foreigners and new-generation Singaporeans who dont know any better.

Now Penang is about to suffer the same fate, where big money talks, and the shared heritage of an island lifestyle is about to be handed over to millionaires who want a copycat mini-development of Dubai. The E&O marketing brochures already talk of Tanjung Tokong as the new millionaires row.

Say goodbye to whats left of charming Penang. Soon you have to be rich to like it.

2011 uppercaise. All rights reserved


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