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                             Protective forest destroyed for golf course
                              24 April 2017 | 10:37:00 AM 
                             Phu Yen Province approved the destruction of nearly 116 hectares of forest to build a golf course despite having no legal documents to go ahead.
                             
  
Protective forest in Tuy Hoa City destroyed
 
 
On April 21, the trees were felled near Tuy Hoa city at the location of the New City Vietnam tourism complex project.
 Mai Kim Loc, vice director of the provincial Department of Natural  Resources and Environment confirmed that the local authorities had  destroyed protective forest. In 2003, all coastal land in Tuy Hoa City  was included in the tourism development plan. However, new regulations  were issued after that. Projects that affecting more than 20 hectares of  protection forest must be approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources  and Environment and the ministry had not approved the environmental  impact report of New City Vietnam project.
 As 116 hectares of forest will be destroyed for the golf course, this  project needed to be approved by the prime minister. But the reports and  documents weren’t completed as it needed an approved environmental  impact report.
 The provincial still allowed New City Vietnam Company, the project's  investor, to clear the forest anyway as the Miss Friendship of ASEAN  will be held in Phu Yen this July and the authorities hope the tourism  complex will be a major attraction for tourists.
 "It will take a year or two to complete all procedures while the beauty  pageant is going to be held in July. So we created favourable conditions  for the investor," Loc said.
 Loc said his department was responsible for the decision to destroy the  forest. They received the decision from the provincial people's  committee.
 Phu Yen Urban Environment JSC, the company hired to destroy the forest  since late 2016 said they didn't know anything about the incomplete  procedures. "We don't understand, we aren't managers. We are only hired  to do what we do. The woods are transferred to the local Department of  Finance to sell," said director Huynh Kim Toan.
 Vo Ngoc Kha, chairman of Tuy Hoa City, also said they didn't know  anything as the decision came from provincial authorities. "I've ordered  to halt the project until they have all required papers," he said.
 Lee Jung Jun, project manager of New City Vietnam Company refused to comment.
 Nguyen Le Vu, vice director of the provincial Department of Planning and  Investment said they agreed to let New City Vietnam carry out the  project despite the permit not being issued to begin work.
 Nguyen Duyen from the Phu Yen Department of Natural Resources and  Environment said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment was  conducting inspections at all projects that have forest land in the  province so they will wait for the result before giving official  answers. However, all activities to destroy the forest are still being  carried out.
 
                             
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