article_snippet: He (Paes) thinks that all green's the same,' said Jean Carlos Novaes, a member of the Golfe Para Quem (Golf For Whom) group that has been protesting outside the site for months. '
article_snippet: Novaes, who was among a small group of protesters on Wednesday, insisted it was unnecessary to build a new course in the first place, since Rio already has two other golf courses - despite golf's status in Brazil as an unpopular sport played almost exclusively by the moneyed elite.
article_snippet: Rio mayor Paes insists the course is in strict accordance with the law .
article_snippet: Protesters say Rio mayor Paes spearheaded the course's construction in order to favor a campaign donor, a developer who is building luxury residential towers alongside the course .
article_snippet: the counstruction and call Rio mayor Paes a 'climate terrorist' Novaes said that donations made to Rio mayor Paes political campaign by a wealthy and powerful developer who's building luxury residential towers on the margins of the course were the real motor behind the construction of the course.
article_snippet: Rio mayor Paes added that one of the existing courses was deemed too small, while modifications to the other would have cost nearly as much as building the new course.
article_snippet: Rio mayor Paes also brushed aside questions over the ownership of the land, contending that much of the wealthy western suburb of Barra da Tijuca, where the course is located, is beset by long-running conflicts over land ownership.
article_snippet: Attorney Alberto Murray Neto, a former member of Brazil's Olympic Committee, dismissed Rio mayor Paes explanations, saying Paes' explanations made no sense to press ahead with construction of the course on such legally complicated land. '
article_snippet: Even if Attorney Alberto Murray Neto, a former member of Brazil's Olympic Committee had to build a new course, Attorney Alberto Murray Neto, a former member of Brazil's Olympic Committee could have picked any other terrain - one not in a protected nature reserve - or also one where the ownership is clear,' Murray said. '