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Chinese involvement in Sierra Leone fishing development project criticized by environmental groups
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The development of a fishing industry project in Sierra Leone finance by China is being opposed group of non-governmental organizations who claim it will harm the environment.
The Sierra Leone government said it has received USD 55 million (EUR 45 million) from China for the construction of a fishing harbor and fishmeal plant on 250 acres in the Black Johnson area, nearly 51 years after the project was first considered and then tabled by the state.
However, opposition to the project – led by the Institute for Legal Research and Advocacy for Justice (ILRAJ) and Namati Sierra Leone, as well as landowners including James Tonner, who has set up a crowdfunding page to fund a judicial review of the deal – claim the project would cause an international ecological and national human disaster.”
Tonner, who lives in London, has set up a crowdfunding page to fund a judicial review into the deal. The government could be acting unconstitutionally if it acquired the land compulsorily, he said, because the constitution requires any such move to be in the public interest. The compensation stated by the government was also unfair, he argued, claiming that the rate was about 30 times lower than the market value of the land.
Tito Gbandewa: âIf they do this here, the water will be dirty, there will be a lot of oil and noise, the trawlers will be all around.â
âUnder the constitution, the government can sequester land if it is in the public interest,â Tonner said. âEven if this just a deep-water harbour, it is not in the public interest because itâs not a suitable site. There are fish breeding sites in the lagoon. It will wipe out the local fish people live on.â
‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese fish plant Karen McVeigh and Kabba Kargbo in Freetown
A $55m (£39m) deal struck by the government of Sierra Leone with China to build an industrial fishing harbour on 100 hectares (250 acres) of beach and protected rainforest has been criticised as “a catastrophic human and ecological disaster” by conservationists, landowners and rights groups.
The gold and black sands of Black Johnson beach fringe the African nation’s Western Area Peninsula national park, home to endangered species including the duiker antelope and pangolins. The waters are rich in sardines, barracuda and grouper, caught by local fishermen who produce 70% of the fish for the domestic market.
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