Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad stood firm on cancelling the China-backed gas pipeline project Trans-Sabah Gas Pipeline (TSGP) Sabah, valued at RM4.06 billion.
"We have determined that the pipeline (projects) will not be constructed but we are as usual not seekimg previous arrangement (to build the pipeline), and at the moment we are not going to do it," he told a press conference at Putrajaya today.
Last August, Mahathir announced two pipeline projects - TSGP and Multi-Product Pipeline (MPP) in Malacca - were cancelled, together with the East Coast Rail Line (ECRL).
Putrajaya, however, later embarked on a 10-month long negotiation with its Chinese counterpart on the ECRL project.
It is understood no similar effort was made on the TSGP project.
The project was undertaken by Suria Strategic Energy Resources (SSER) - a fully-owned subsidiary of the Finance Ministry set up specifically for the pipelines in 2016.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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