08-19-2016, 10:13 AM
Negril To Get Climate Risk Atlas By Year End
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20160818/negril-get-climate-risk-atlas-year-end
I think having a Climate Risk Atlas is helpful (if anyone actually uses it as a basis for project approval). However some of the "facts" in this article were surprising.
This part is about the cancelled breakwater project.
"However, hotel stakeholders were against them, insisting instead on beach nourishment as their preferred intervention option.
They lobbied to have their way, using inadequate public consultations as their argument one that found favour with the Office of the Public Defender, and in the wake of having filed a complaint with the AF Board Secretariat."
The articles I read didn't have stakeholders declaring that the solution must be one or the other; rather that beach nourishment must be part of the overall solution.
I also didn't think that "inadequate public consultations" was the sole basis in their argument, but was in addition to complaints of inadequate studies on the effect of the breakwater and of alternative remedies.
I'd be less surprised if I saw this in The Observer, but The Gleaner??
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20160818/negril-get-climate-risk-atlas-year-end
I think having a Climate Risk Atlas is helpful (if anyone actually uses it as a basis for project approval). However some of the "facts" in this article were surprising.
This part is about the cancelled breakwater project.
"However, hotel stakeholders were against them, insisting instead on beach nourishment as their preferred intervention option.
They lobbied to have their way, using inadequate public consultations as their argument one that found favour with the Office of the Public Defender, and in the wake of having filed a complaint with the AF Board Secretariat."
The articles I read didn't have stakeholders declaring that the solution must be one or the other; rather that beach nourishment must be part of the overall solution.
I also didn't think that "inadequate public consultations" was the sole basis in their argument, but was in addition to complaints of inadequate studies on the effect of the breakwater and of alternative remedies.
I'd be less surprised if I saw this in The Observer, but The Gleaner??