IN RESPONSE to Deputy Agriculture and Food Industries Minister II Datuk Che Abdullah Mat Nawi’s statement on June 16, 2021 regarding the Penang South Islands (PSI) and fisheries matters in relation to the project’s implementation, the Penang Infrastructure Corporation (PIC) would like to categorically address and clarify a number of his remarks.
PIC which is the special purpose vehicle set up by the Penang government for the implementation of the Penang Transport Master Plan and PSI said the clarifications are based on data from the Department of Fisheries (DOF) as well as data collected for the project’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report and the Fisheries Impact Assessment (FIA) report.