“What is happening on and around that little gem in the ocean, Bimini, will go down in the history of the Bahamas as the greatest potential tragedy to an ecosystem,” said Joseph Darville, the founder of the Save Our Bays action group. Workers and the government’s supporters are squaring up to environmentalists, opposition politicians, and marine experts such as Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of the marine biologist Jacques Cousteau, who are campaigning against the resort’s expansion. The once sleepy atmosphere is now under threat after a Malaysian consortium won approval to start bringing up to 500,000 tourists a year to a casino and a hotel on the nine-square-mile island.Īccusations that the work and creation of a new pier for cruise ships is damaging coral reefs has turned neighbours against each other.
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