A crony done a boat outing off Tanjung Pengelih, Johor over a weekend as well as e-mailed a upon top of picture of a silt barge crossing a Malaysian limit in to Singapore.
During his boat trip, he counted roughly 30 barges passed through. The boat user claimed some 100 silt barges cranky a limit from Johor daily. It seemed obvious which silt indispensable forSingapore land reclamation planis coming from Johor.
Tun Dr Mahathir has voiced this concern before. And he has steady it most times which this does not serve Johor interest.
There was a dispute with Singapore when their reclamation of Pulau Tokong turned out to be a divergent devise to push a Malaysian border. With silt from Johor, a Singaporean can stifle devise for permitting ships to pass by a Straits of Johor as well as connect a dual ports by sea.
And a peanut cost of appropriation silt from Johor will earn for a Singaporeans billions from a brand new land. Johore had as well often been done monkeys.
Is Dr Mahathir's call falling upon deaf ear or Johor was suckered in an additional different lop-sided agreement with Singapore?
Looking at a upon top of map from Google, Tanjung Pengelih sits nearby a southern most tip of Johor upon it's eastern side at Pengerang, Johor. Sometimes Pengerang is claimed as southernmost partial of mainland Asia with Tanjung Piai claimed as a tip.
Our crony is scold to claim those silt barges have been meant fo! r Singap ore since his boat outing from Tanjung Pengelih is nearby a Malaysia-Singapore border. That silt could have come from serve up stream at Kota Tinggi where large desposit of sands can be found.
The can usually be meant for Singapore's land reclamation. They have an expanded devise laid out. An extract ofWikipediabelow:
Singapore consists of 63 islands, including a categorical island, widely well known as Singapore Island but additionally as Pulau Ujong.[46] There have been dual man-made connections to Johor, Malaysia: a JohorSingapore Causeway in a north, as well as a Tuas Second Link in a west. Jurong Island, Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin as well as Sentosa have been a largest of Singapore's not as big islands. The highest natural point is Bukit Timah Hill at 166 m (545 ft).[47]However, a land reclamation! did not go to well with Malaysia.
There have been ongoing land reclamation projects, which have increasing Singapore's land area from 581.5 km2 (224.5 sq mi) in a 1960s to 704 km2 (272 sq mi) today; it might grow by an additional 100 km2 (40 sq mi) by 2030.[48] Some projects engage merging not as big islands by land reclamation to form larger, some-more organic islands, as with Jurong Island.[49] About 23% of Singapore's land area consists of forest as well as inlet reserves.[50] Urbanisation has eliminated most first rainforest, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve being a usually significant remaining forest.[49] There have been some-more than 300 parks as well as 4 inlet pot in Singapore. There have been additionally most trees planted, as well as roughly fifty per cent of a country is lonesome by greenery. Because of this, Singapore is additionally ordinarily well known as a 'Garden City'.[51]
Row brews over Singapore land reclamation nearby Malaysia borderDr Mahathir had never been happy with a trade of silt or sometimes sheltered in a papers as silica to Singapore.
Agence France Presse
March 5, 2002
KUALA LUMPUR
MALAYSIA has voiced fears which a land reclamation project in neighbouring Singapore will hinder a devise to become a informal shipping hub, reports said.
A rough inform upon a environmental as well as economic stroke of a land reclamation programme in a Tebrau Strait separating a dual countries would be released in cupboard Wednesday, pronounced Land as well as Cooperative Development Minister Kasitah Gaddam.
Kasitah pronounced work at sure stretches along a straits was "too close to a country's limit as well as would positively be a loss to Malaysia", adding which a narrowed sea line would hinder ships headed for ports in a southernmost Johor state.
"If this happens, ships starting to a Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) might be forced to use Singapore waters," Kasitah was quoted as observant by a Sun daily.
The PTP, a single of a largest ports in a world, rose as a viable pick to Singapore after Evergreen Marine Corp. moved a Southeast Asian movement centre in Jan from a tiny commonwealth to a Johor port.
Shipping attention players pronounced Evergreen's shift, which followed a identical pierce final year by Danish tellurian container line Maersk Sealand, had placed Malaysia as a estimable challenger to Singapore's position as a single of a region's categorical container ports.
Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi pronounced final month a land reclamation activities were getting closer to Malaysian borders.
"What they do within their borders is their affair. But what is critical is they do not encroach in to a territory," he said.
An paper in a New Straits Times Tuesday quoted state authorities as observant a landfills at a slight straits had been "cleverly written to hinder smooth operations of Tanjung Pelepas Port, which is seen as a viable pick t! o Singap ore."
"Although there is no en! croachme nt upon a territorial water, a actuality stays which a maritime range in between a dual nations would be altered," a paper said, warning of intensity friction over a issue.
One should consternation if Singapore still have industries similar to glass manufacturing. Electronic attention do not need 100 barges a day of sand.
In his blog posting antiquated June 9, 2008, Dr Mahathir related a disaster in a supposed trade for a overpass to reinstate a causeway to a silt deal.
Excerpt below:
This overpass is really essential as a trade in Johor Baru has increasing as well as there is a permanent trade jam caused by a North-South flow to as well as from a causeway as well as a East-West flow in between a Eastern as well as Western tools of Johor Baru. An towering highway is indispensable to be built upon top of a East-West trade for entrance to as well as from a causeway. Such a highway would result in a partial of a Johor finish of a causeway becoming useless as a towering highway must land some stretch from where a causeway joins a mainland.Dr Mahathir h! ad suspe cted something sandy starting upon since approach behind in 2006.
A full-length overpass to Singapore would capacitate a gradual rise for lorries to stand as well as boats to pass underneath after a causeway is removed. Since Singapore refused to jointly construct a true overpass to reinstate a causeway, a overpass with twenty-five meters clearway for boats to pass has got to be prolonged sufficient for lorries to have a gradual climb.
The answer was to lengthen a overpass by a winding design. As for a railway line a swing overpass can be no! n-stop o r sealed for ships or trains to pass through.
To cut a prolonged story short work upon a winding overpass was stopped so which Dato Seri Abdullah's Government could offer to sell 1 billion cubic metres of sand, as well as overflight rights for Singapore troops aircraft over Johor Baru if Singapore agreed to a true bridge.
Someone stood to have a lot of income offered 50 million cubic metres of silt per year for twenty years to Singapore for land reclamation. This was a really attractive offer as a reclaimed land can sell for 3,000-5,000 Singapore dollars (about RM6,000-RM10,000) per square metre. The Singapore Government stood to have an huge amount of income offered this land.
They therefore agreed to a true bridge. That dredging silt from a seabed would means wearing divided of a coast, drop of fish breeding drift as well as dispossess Johore fishermen of their livelihood were not of concern to a Government of Dato Seri Abdullah.
Fortunately a Johor people misbehaved.
They objected to offered silt as well as ! overflig hts.
Abdullah frustrated which his intrigue was shut off afterwards punished a Johore people by cancelling a overpass project altogether. No true bridge, no curve overpass either.
The result is which some-more than RM1 billion have been squandered office building a Customs, Immigration as well as Quarantine (CIQ) facilities, substructure as well as work upon a brand new railway station, pilings as well as rough works upon a highway joining a CIQ to a overpass as well as compensations to a contractors since of a termination of a projects.
The CIQ office building is right divided a white elephant, unused as well as yet have to be confirmed costing hundreds of thousands of Ringgit a month.
Clearly Dato Seri Abdullah has squandered open money. All since he was indignant with a Johor people for not enabling a single billion cubic metres of silt to be sold to Singapore as well as a profits thereof.
Read this Utusan Malaysia inform antiquated Jul 1st, 2006herein which he brave a Government to reclassify a papers so which a afterwards Foreign Minister, right divided Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar can suggested his proof. The Government brave not as well as Dr Mahathir hang to his story till today.
The stream Sultan of Johor had asked which a overpass be rebuilt. See this Star inform below:
Saturday June 26, 2010 MYT 2:42:17 PMThe murmurs between contractors as well as developers in Johor is which thepasirconcession is tranquil by a single Tuan Haji Daeng Malik as well as close crony of Tuanku.
Johor Sultan: Consider reviving overpass project
JOHOR BARU The Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar has called upon a supervision to recur reviving a overpass project to reinstate a Johor Causeway.
He pronounced a causeway was really critical to a people as well as a Johor sultanate since previous rulers had regularly been understanding of efforts to ascent a causeway.
"Looking back, there is no doubt which a causeway is really critical to a people.
"As such, a ancestors of my family since a late Sultan Ibrahim till my father, a late Sultan Iskandar had regularly been understanding of efforts to ascent a causeway," he pronounced when opening JB Sentral as well as launching a Kembara Mahkota Johor 2010 here Friday.
The proposal to set up an S-shaped bridge, widely dubbed a 'crooked bridge', was mooted by former budding apportion Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad but was scrapped by his successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2006.
On JB Sentral, Sultan Ibrahim pronounced he was assured which a people were! delight ed with a successful execution of JB Sentral nonetheless a categorical componen! t of a complex, which is, a overpass had yet to be implemented.
He pronounced a opening of JB Sentral was historic eventuality as his late father, Sultan Iskandar had non-stop a Sultan Iskandar Building which housed a Customs, Immigration as well as Quarantine Complex upon December 1, 2008.
According to Sultan Ibrahim, he himself was concerned in a Sultan Iskandar Building, JB Sentral as well as overpass projects, which were authorized in 2003, by offering his views.
"When a supervision encountered a complaint in anticipating a befitting site in Johor Baharu to immigrate a residents of Lumba Kuda as well as Bukit Chagar flats, my late father gave permission for twenty-seven acres of a Johor Sultanate land in Kampung Bakar Batu to be used to resettle a residents affected by a projects.
"This is an indication of a palace's await to capacitate a projects to get off a belligerent in a interests of a people," he said.
While assenting a federal supervision as well as state governments for a successful execution of Sultan Iskandar Building as well as JB Sentral, Sultan Ibrahim additionally voiced his wish as both projects were completed upon report by Bumiputera contractors from a state.
He hoped some-more supervision projects would be awarded to Bumiputera contractors from a state as they had proven their capability to rise mega projects.
Sultanah Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris, Tunku Mahkota of Johor Tunku Ismail, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin as well as Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman were present.
In an immediate response, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak pronounced in Kuanatan Saturday which a supervision would demeanour in to a call to revitalise a overpass project to reinstate a Johor Causeway.
"We will demeanour in to it," he pronounced when asked to comment upon a Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar's cal! l for a supervision to revisit a original devise to set up a bridge.
Najib did not elaborate.
He had progressing non-stop a "Mengukuh Wadah Memperkasa Ummah" gathering or! ganised by a Malaysian Islamic Economic Development Foundation (YaPEIM), here.
With a much indispensable silt for growth in Malaysia, quite in Johor Baru exported to Singapore, it is causing necessity of silt as well as pushing a price of silt up to a detriment of Johor. The state severely need silt to rise southern Johor; from Iskandar Malaysia to Danga Bay as well as a arriving Pengerang RAPID as well as Johor Baru Central Business District (CBD) development.
Why afterwards is this large scale trade of land still on-going? Is it probable which Daeng Malik is acting in co-hort with former Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to fulfill a 1 billion cubic scale silt understanding claimed by Dr Mahathir?
Commentators in this bloghereunfairly blamed Tuanku Sultan for Daeng's silt trade to Singapore. How could they brave speculate such?
It does not nonsense with a Tuanku Sultan's call see a vision of his Almarhum father, Sultan Iskandar of a scenic overpass realised. The stately family went out of their approach to give divided their family land in a expensive CBD as well as helped affected retail traders pierce to an similarly vital business place as well as trickery to capacitate a building a whole commenced.
Prime Minister, Dato Seri Mohd Najib is creation his 'ground feeling' revisit to Batu Pahat, Johor today. It would be a great gesticulate upon his partial to announce ! somethin g for Johor.
If cryptic states have been being given as well as promised most goodies, there should be dividends as well as bonuses for Johorean's fuss free long-term investment as well as commitment in Barisan Nasional.
A overpass to reinstate a causeway should not be as well far. It is a gesticulate which could damp those hundred of thousands of Johoreans, who squandered divided their votes in 2008. It brings behind a clarity of honour to Johoreans.
The Sultan ancestors were hoodwinked by a British. Kuala Lumpur kept creation Johore a victim of their bad trade with Singapore.
Najib should emphatise for he is Johorean from his mom side as well as outlayed a bit of timebalik kampungto Wadi Hanna, Johor Baru. His grandson of arwah 'Dato Noh Beirut' or a late Tan Sri Haji Mohammad Noah garbage bin Omar.
Do grandpa proud to uncover which descendents of Bugis warrior as well as noble can stand up to a Singaporeans.
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