Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said all sea reclamation concession agreements will be declassified for public consumption after Wednesday.

Lim said the matter will be declassification will be brought for approval at the state executive council meeting this Wednesday.

These are concession agreements for reclamation carried out by the BN-led state government prior to 2008 which involved 3,241 acres.

Declassification will also include those involving 60 acres approved by the current state administration.

It will not include the 4,100 in the southernpost because this was still at proposal stage under the Transport Master Plan and yet to be approved, Lim said.

The 4,100 inclues two identified islands, covering the areas of Permatang Damar Laut and Gertak Sanggul in Bayan Lepas, to be handled by SRS consortium.

"We invite the public for consultation even before the plan is approved as we feel it is good to share the information," he said.

"We have nothing to hide and are open to all views, we will declassify the agreements. After all they were approved by the BN government," he said at a public consultation on the Transport Master Plan at the Town Hall today.

"These documents will also be accessible by applying for them under the Freedom of Information Act," he added.

Lim came under fire after he blasted PKR reps for abstaining in a state assembly vote on the issue of sea reclamation.

The reps abstained from voting on a motion moved by an Umno assemblyperson, calling for greater transparency on the issue and for the state to halt further sea reclamation.

Lim reacted by claiming there is a coup in Penang PKR for the deputy chief minister post.

He also said he will fight anything that would put the state's economy in jeopardy.

During the two-hour session today, 13 people gave their views, including NGO representative Yan Lee from Chant Awareness and Penang Island City Councillor Lee Mah Hui.

SRS chief Szeto Wai Loong addressed the issues raised by the public, while the consortium's head of stake holders Azmi Muhammad gave a presentation of the Transport Master Plan.

The RM27 billion Transport Master Plan is a state government initiative to address the island's traffic woes.

The proposal includes a RM6.3 billion undersea tunnel linking the island to Butterworth on the mainland, and will see the construction of three major highways across the island to ease traffic congestion.

It also includes light railway transit, monorail and trams connecting several locations to the city centre in George Town.

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