Some 200 people, many fisherfolk from Penang and Perak, marched to Parliament House this morning to protest the Penang government’s proposed Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project.<br /><br />They lined the road leading into the august house and chanted “Tolak Tambak” (reject reclamation) in a bid to garner attention to their demands from ministers and MPs attending today’s parliamentary proceedings.<br /><br />Representatives from the fisherfolk managed to enter the Parliament building to meet with Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Salahuddin Ayub as well as Deputy Rural Development Minister R Sivarasa.<br /><br />Salahuddin accepted the memorandum and promised to look into the reasons for their protest, stressing that the PSR project had not been approved yet.
