Confusion over Fainu environmental impact report
An airport and hotel project would swallow up most of Fainu island.
13 Aug 2018, 9:00 AM
An environmental impact assessment and land survey are under way for an airport on Fainu island, state media reported Sunday, but there is no information about which firm is carrying it out or even if there is one.
Fainu will lose 31 hectares of vegetation in a dense jungle area, which is equivalent to 57 football fields in size, including several hectares of agricultural land.
Islanders will also lose access to 2.18 kilometres of beach to the airport’s security zone and the gated hotel. A further four hectares of land will be reclaimed for the airport.
Island Aviation boss Abdulla Haris told PSM the EIA was ongoing, and that he hoped the vegetation would be cleared by the end August. He also said construction work should commence within the next two months.
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