VI Joins Caribbean Conservation Initiative

Quote from article at above link:

“The United States Virgin Islands welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on initiatives which will safeguard the Caribbean region’s marine and coastal environment for the betterment of all,” said Karl Knight, director of the Virgin Islands Energy Office, who will be the territory’s lead for the initiative."

Ha! That's why they are planning on allowing the building of a 145 slip marina in Coral Bay, St. John? What BS!

This will FOREVER change the face of this quiet, pristine, low key area and endanger the marine life there with "Sea grass shading/die-off, restriction of water circulation in the bay, leaching of toxic bottom paint compounds from high density of boats, displacement of existing moorings, poor (exposed) location, etc., etc.".......as mentioned to me by a Marine Biologist who has lived in St. John his entire life and knows of what he speaks.

From a Daily news article:

"It is such a large-scope project. It imposes so much on our seascape that it's hard to imagine it being acceptable under our environmental law and our community's environmental values," said Sharon Coldren, president of the Coral Bay Community Council, Inc, on Friday.
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> The council posted the entirety of the application on its website at www.coralbaycommunitycouncil.org.
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> The council also has created an email, czm@coralbaycommunitycouncil.org, at which comments about this specific project can be submitted. The council told DPNR that it will print all emails received and give them to DPNR because the department told the council it likely would be unable to print all of the emails it received regarding the project for the meeting>"

Not to mention the parties involved have never built a Marina.
Sound familiar with our VI Government getting in bed with people that have no track history but they are willing to give ours and Federal money away?