From the Star – Government should lead way in Johor O&G hub plan


IDR, JCorp and Khazanah, take note on how you spend my tax money.

From the Star, dateline 2010-10-09:

Johor wants the Federal Government to lead the way in developing Johor’s southeast areas of Teluk Ramunia and Pengerang into a new oil and gas (O&G) hub in the region.

A senior official with the State Economic Planning Unit (Upen), who declined to be identified, has proposed that a federal level unit be set up to oversee and facilitate the implementation of the plan to ensure the project would be on the right track. He said it was important to have such a unit involved in the development of the country’s O&G hub projects and related activities as there was none at the moment.

He added that the central unit would coordinate in the planning of the hub, including putting infrastructure facilities such as water, power, telecommunications, connectivity, logistics and giving incentives to investors.

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