You mention an "Environmental Impact Assessment” I am wondering if this has been completed and if so could you publicly share this information?
I'm aware that Jeff Vahle worked with the "local economic council” to come to an approval. I would like to know if there were any environmentalists or local Bahamians as part of this council and would like to know why there was not an environmental impact assessment considered at the point of approval? It seems odd to me that the assessment is being done after the approval?
I would also like to know how it was decided that only ~190 acres of the 700 will be conserved?
I am extremely concerned about Disney building a cruise port on Lighthouse point a place that is home to fragile reefs with stands of rare and endangered staghorn coral. It is home to a plethora of fish, sharks, whales, and marine mammals and has been formally proposed as a Marine Protected Area. I'm not sure how you can say that Lighthouse point was chosen because it is a "minimal environmental impact project". How would you know that if the Environmental Impact Assessment has not been completed? I'm asking that this Environmental Impact Assessment be completed by scientists without vested interests in Disney. A complete unbiased assessment that is open to the public. I'm also asking that Disney serve the best interest of this planet and it's inhabitants and choose a different location that has already been damaged by the environment. We have few untouched places left on this planet.
I am concerned that The Walt Disney Co. is rushing ahead—without a publicly available environmental impact assessment—to begin building a massive private cruise ship port with a half-mile-long pier, a marina, and facilities for hundreds of ship visits and millions of visitors each year. It would be a shame to see Lighthouse Point, an irreplaceable spot, with its rich seas degraded and polluted.
I'd like to direct your attention to ~300,500k people who are petitioning to stop this project. We are asking that Disney follow the lead of other cruise companies that have chosen instead to rehabilitate already degraded areas for their cruise facilities instead of demolishing a thriving ecosystem. Here is the petition: https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disne…
I am looking forward to hearing your response to my above questions and working together toward a more sustainable solution.
coffeelover says...
You mention an "Environmental Impact Assessment” I am wondering if this has been completed and if so could you publicly share this information?
I'm aware that Jeff Vahle worked with the "local economic council” to come to an approval. I would like to know if there were any environmentalists or local Bahamians as part of this council and would like to know why there was not an environmental impact assessment considered at the point of approval? It seems odd to me that the assessment is being done after the approval?
I would also like to know how it was decided that only ~190 acres of the 700 will be conserved?
I am extremely concerned about Disney building a cruise port on Lighthouse point a place that is home to fragile reefs with stands of rare and endangered staghorn coral. It is home to a plethora of fish, sharks, whales, and marine mammals and has been formally proposed as a Marine Protected Area. I'm not sure how you can say that Lighthouse point was chosen because it is a "minimal environmental impact project". How would you know that if the Environmental Impact Assessment has not been completed? I'm asking that this Environmental Impact Assessment be completed by scientists without vested interests in Disney. A complete unbiased assessment that is open to the public. I'm also asking that Disney serve the best interest of this planet and it's inhabitants and choose a different location that has already been damaged by the environment. We have few untouched places left on this planet.
I am concerned that The Walt Disney Co. is rushing ahead—without a publicly available environmental impact assessment—to begin building a massive private cruise ship port with a half-mile-long pier, a marina, and facilities for hundreds of ship visits and millions of visitors each year. It would be a shame to see Lighthouse Point, an irreplaceable spot, with its rich seas degraded and polluted.
I'd like to direct your attention to ~300,500k people who are petitioning to stop this project. We are asking that Disney follow the lead of other cruise companies that have chosen instead to rehabilitate already degraded areas for their cruise facilities instead of demolishing a thriving ecosystem. Here is the petition: https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disne…
I am looking forward to hearing your response to my above questions and working together toward a more sustainable solution.
Thank you,
Caroline
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