Last night we showed you our tour with the Turneffe Atoll Trust. They showed the media concerns with mega-developments in that fragile ecosystem and pointed us to Hakimi's Dive Haven, a hulking hundred room resort on ropewalk Caye. It does not have an environmental impact assessment.
The concern is the volume of dredging that was done around the flats surrounding the island and the the solid waste disposal plan for the mega development. He adds that they had an environmental audit, and are compliant with environmental requirements.
Well, today a representative of Hakimi's told us that indeed they have no EIA, but they do have an environmental compliance plan. He added that solid waste will be returned to the mainland, while sewerage and grey water will go into a specially designed system. He says the development will hire at least 300 people.
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