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Related: About this forumDredging Florida coral reef is ‘lunacy’ says Philippe Cousteau, son of Jacques
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/24/florida-coral-reef-new-port-philippe-cousteau-fort-lauderdaleExpansion plans for a port near the continental USs only barrier reef have been fiercely criticized by experts, but proponents say it will bring jobs
Dredging Florida coral reef is lunacy says Philippe Cousteau, son of Jacques
Oliver Milman
Thursday 24 March 2016 08.00 EDT
A plan to expand a port near the continental USs only barrier reef is lunacy and risks devastating the ailing coral ecosystem, Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, warned on Wednesday.
The US army corps of engineers plans to deepen and widen shipping channels to allow more ships to access Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The $374m plan, which has been sent to Congress for approval, would mean vast tracts of seabed will be dug up and deposited out at sea starting next year.
Proponents of the plan contend it will bring jobs, as well as larger ships, to Florida, but environmentalists bitterly oppose the dredging project, given its potential impact upon the only barrier reef off the contiguous US.
Recent dredging of the port of Miami, also undertaken by the US army corps of engineers, layered as much as 14cm (5.5in) of sediment on to the seafloor nearby, clogging parts of the Florida reef. There are fears that a repeat of this dredging will wipe out rare corals on the worlds third largest reef, which stretches from the Atlantic coast the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dredging Florida coral reef is ‘lunacy’ says Philippe Cousteau, son of Jacques (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Mar 2016
OP
Why should we build something that big when Florida will be under water in a few decades.
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2016
#3
ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)1. Disgusting
Money shouldn't be more important than the natural world, especially something as precious as coral reef.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. Unbridled Capitalism has no brain only the prime directive to MAKE MONEY!.
Over and over the primitive brain of Capitalism is allowed to assert it's primitive directive against
the best interests of the flora and fauna of Earth.
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)4. +10000000000000000000000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The more of this wanton destruction of the natural parts of our world that we haven't completely destroyed yet goes forth, it only serves to further provide evidence that we are an alien species who came here to destroy all life on this planet. Is that why we are so insistent that we find other planets with life on them... to destroy them next?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)3. Why should we build something that big when Florida will be under water in a few decades.
Most Floridians are destined to be refugees due to global warming. Let's try to do something about that.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)5. It never ends..