Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Buying and Selling Forest Land

The government had throughout the years divested their forest reserve, sold it to the private citizen through the politicians in the name of development and thereby reducing the much needed rain forests at the expense of development.

However, the government is considering compulsory acquisition of private land to be classified as forest reserve.

They sold the forest to some people, and they will be forcing others to surrender their land because the forest reserve is depleting? What kind of system did we have?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another looting scheme? First, give away land or sell at dirt cheap price. Then, buy back. Very enterprising.

Anonymous said...

Super looting system.

Don't you see the cycle. They can force buy the land CHEAP from powerless,connectionless private, then sell CHEAP to politickus cronies. If politickus land development went bad(Current putrajaya real estate, the future Johor project), gahmen will buy back EXPENSIVE.

Monsterball said...

The continuing de-gazetting of forest reserves by various state governments to be sold cheaply to crony companies has a very unfortunate impact on the environment.
So much pristine forest has been destroyed, its a crime against future generations. It takes 70-100 years for a forest to recover, even with good management.

Anonymous said...

First give the land away dirt cheap or free. Then buy back as forest land. Then probably sell them away dirt cheap again. What a scam!

mob1900 said...

my,
almost everyone here(except poor me) could smell the dirty scheme miles away, great minds think alike?