Debating the Artificial Cedars Island

Clearly, if you were a worm living in the soft sediment and someone dug your home up and replaced it with rock to form an island, you would be out of luck. On the other hand, if you were a butterfly fish and only lived around reefs, and someone changed the sand bottom to a reef, you might like that. But which view is the right one? Strictly speaking, neither one is; it just depends on what a persons philosophy is. A quote by Milton Love, an expert on artificial reefs at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California. As you are well aware, on the 23rd of January 2009, the developer, Noor International Holding, applied for a legal license at the office of the investment development authority of Lebanon (IDAL) to build luxurious residential, commercial, and touristic projects, named The Cedar Island. An artificial island is planned on a 3.3 Km2 in front of the Lebanese coast. This is, in the opinion of a group of professors at AUB, an environmental and urban disaster. A seminar that will take place on Thursday 26 of March 2009 at 4:00 pm in AUB Collage Hall aims to establish sound scientific arguments in order to raise awareness among people and policy makers to stop the process.

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[sweet16inJune]

i hope this project goes to plan.. its amazing