Right move to cancel ECRL

The bank guarantees from CCCC was an Advance Payment Bond to MRL and came from the Bank of China and China

THE Prime Minister’s decision to cancel the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) and gas pipeline projects makes economic and environmental sense. For the sake of Malaysia’s natural environment, it is hoped that none of these projects will be revived even when it becomes financially viable to proceed with them at a later stage.

The ECRL, had the construction work proceeded, would have bisected the Rantau Panjang Forest Reserve (RPFR) into two separate forest areas. This would have effectively fragmented over 230ha of the RPFR, cut off any possible safe wildlife corridors and increased the risk of human-wildlife conflicts and wildlife deaths.