Keep Chinese Developers OUT

[Black Orchid]

Environmentalists and local villagers on a Fijian resort island are aghast at a monumental Chinese hotel development which has ripped out part of a reef, dumped waste, blocked other landowners and disturbed traditional fisheries - before gaining legal approvals.

The resort would be Fiji's largest, and is set to include the Pacific nation's first casino.

A tourism expert has warned the desecration on Malolo Island could become an international example of 'what not to do' in sustainable tourism development, alongside excessive impacts from resorts in places like the Philippines and Thailand.

In what is being described as a “gangbuster” approach, the Chinese developer Freesoul Real Estate Development (Fiji) has ignored two court orders to stop the destruction and is accused of running roughshod over Fijian environmental law, permits, the environment, and the island locals.

All work so far has been done without a foreshore lease for the reclamation or Environmental Impact or Development approvals, says Fijian-based New Zealand environmental lawyer Dr Kenneth Chambers.

An elder from the nearby Solevu Village Jonetani Nayate has told Newsroom he believes the Fiji government isn’t stopping the Chinese developer because it is getting money from the firm.

“At the last election, we believe, they (Freesoul Real Estate) donated money for the government. That is why the government is not stopping them. The Attorney-General is getting on well with the Chinese, that’s why. The Chinese don’t care about the land. It's been spoilt and getting worse and worse.”

Jonetani said the people of his village were very upset. “There is raw sewage going into the mangroves [from camps set up for site workers]. It's our fishing grounds, where we collect the clams and crabs, also the ladies take them to the mainland and sell them. Because of the sewage and the channel they dug, it is all spoilt. We want to stop the Chinese before they ruin everything.”

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They've taken other peoples' land and fenced it off to keep them out, destroyed the beach, dug up all the coral and used it as road base for their trucks. The reef and beach can never be restored.

Keep the Chinese developers out and keep the Indians out of government.

[Gordon]

You know just recently I've started hating the Barangaroo tower with a passion. It's mostly built with Chinese money for Chinese gamblers and it's an eyesore.

The fucking thing is tall enough that I can see it poking above the pristine headland from the beach at Nielson Park

[Black Orchid]

Yeah it's an eyesore and I hate it too. The Chinese own historic buildings in Sydney too and it's just a matter of time before they are decimated and some characterless structure takes their place.

[Gordon]

From the beach you can't see the city buildings, just a bit of the SHB but now the Chinese penis building pokes above the headland. Ruined one of my favourite places in Sydney

[Black Orchid]

Now that you have called them Chinese penis buildings I am never going to get that out of my head.

[Gordon]

Here it is.

[sprintcyclist]

Yes, keep all foreigners from buying Australian land

[Bogan]

10 or 15 years ago, a Chinese worker, working on a "Chinese" building site in Sydney, was seriously injured while at work. He was sent by ambulance to the Royal North Shore Hospital. That was when a gang of Chinese stand over merchants went into his ward and pulled him out of bed. He was then put on a Cathay Pacific flight to China while still in his hospital gown.

[Neferti]

The Chinese have been here since the Gold Rush of the 1850s. As have the Afghans and their camels.