BY EMMELINE TAN and ONG YEE TING
PENANG: Remember our story about the famed Japanese wood artist Katsumi Mukai who is fashioning a huge jati tree trunk into a work of art for the Komtar pedestrian mall here?
It has now been discovered that the jati tree that had once stood taller than a four-storey building at Jalan Lim Khoon Huat near the Penang Hos-
pital was felled illegally
to make way for new quarters for government health personnel.
A Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) spokesman revealed that the Public Works Department (JKR) did not have permission to chop down that tree and several other smaller trees.
WOOD SCULPTOR: Mukai using an electric saw to fashion a tree sculpture out of the jati trunk, which he had obtained from the construction site at Jalan Lim Khoon Huat near the Penang Hospital.
“The department did not submit landscape plans for the project. We also did not give approval for any tree on the site to be felled,” she added.
Developers can be charged if they do not submit landscape plans and must pay a RM5,000 fine for each tree felled without approval.
They are also required to replant elsewhere the same number of trees they had chopped down.
Nature lovers have expressed outrage, claiming it was not the first time that JKR had felled trees without approval from the MPPP.
Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) Penang branch chairman Kanda Kumar claimed the department had uprooted a row of casuarina trees last November to widen the coastal road opposite Pulau Jerejak.
“They claimed they couldn't wait for approval from the council to chop the trees as the job had to be finished by a certain time. The council must act against them,” Kanda said, adding that the felled jati was more than 50 years old.
The Star reported on Tuesday that what was left of the jati tree now was just a huge stump.
The JKR project started on Sept 5. The three blocks of quarters are expected to be ready by Dec 12.
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THE CITY OF GEORGE TOWN, PENANG (1ST JANUARY 1957)
"the said Municipality of George Town shall on the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty seven and forever thereafter be a city and shall be called and styled the CITY OF GEORGE TOWN instead of the Municipality of George Town and shall th
BY EMMELINE TAN and ONG YEE TING
PENANG: Remember our story about the famed Japanese wood artist Katsumi Mukai who is fashioning a huge jati tree trunk into a work of art for the Komtar pedestrian mall here?
It has now been discovered that the jati tree that had once stood taller than a four-storey building at Jalan Lim Khoon Huat near the Penang Hos-
pital was felled illegally
to make way for new quarters for government health personnel.
A Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) spokesman revealed that the Public Works Department (JKR) did not have permission to chop down that tree and several other smaller trees.
WOOD SCULPTOR: Mukai using an electric saw to fashion a tree sculpture out of the jati trunk, which he had obtained from the construction site at Jalan Lim Khoon Huat near the Penang Hospital.
“The department did not submit landscape plans for the project. We also did not give approval for any tree on the site to be felled,” she added.
Developers can be charged if they do not submit landscape plans and must pay a RM5,000 fine for each tree felled without approval.
They are also required to replant elsewhere the same number of trees they had chopped down.
Nature lovers have expressed outrage, claiming it was not the first time that JKR had felled trees without approval from the MPPP.
Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) Penang branch chairman Kanda Kumar claimed the department had uprooted a row of casuarina trees last November to widen the coastal road opposite Pulau Jerejak.
“They claimed they couldn't wait for approval from the council to chop the trees as the job had to be finished by a certain time. The council must act against them,” Kanda said, adding that the felled jati was more than 50 years old.
The Star reported on Tuesday that what was left of the jati tree now was just a huge stump.
The JKR project started on Sept 5. The three blocks of quarters are expected to be ready by Dec 12.
__________________
THE CITY OF GEORGE TOWN, PENANG (1ST JANUARY 1957)
"the said Municipality of George Town shall on the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty seven and forever thereafter be a city and shall be called and styled the CITY OF GEORGE TOWN instead of the Municipality of George Town and shall th
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