Tanjung Bungah residents: Why did project go ahead when DOE rejected it?


  • Nation
  • Monday, 23 Oct 2017

Police taking away the remains to Penang Hospital mortuary from Tanjung Bungah landslide site. Star Pics CHARLES MARIASOOSAY.

GEORGE TOWN: The Department of Environment (DOE) and state government should be held equally responsible for not stopping the project in Tanjung Bungah where a landslide occurred, said the Tanjung Bungah Residents Association.

Its chairman Meenaksi Raman said the DOE should have acted to stop the project after it had rejected the planning permission in January 2015.

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