Investigations revealed that 'nobody else' but the former state government was responsible, says the land and resources minister.
A golf course and hotel project is reported to have encroached on a wetland and mangrove reserve in Sungai Pulai, Johor.
In February, he had denied knowledge of Sungai Pulai being de-gazetted and said he was not aware of such a project either. Asked if Putrajaya had relayed their concerns to the developer of the golf course resort, Xavier said: “Johor is a very sensitive state and you know very well who is behind it. So they know exactly what happened and we have passed on our message.”Activists recently raised the alarm over the opening of the first of three golf courses by a foreign company, which they claim lies within the Sungai Pulai mangrove reserve in Gelang Patah, a famous riverine mangrove system.
Xavier said: “I can assure you that the rest of the land, another two-thirds of it, will remain gazetted as far as the ministry is concerned”. New procedures for forests and “sensitive” lands were in the pipeline. “Whether the states want to follow the rules that we set, it is up to them. But we will publish these rules so that people know that this is what we want,” he said.
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