Australia is planning to build Antarctica’s biggest infrastructure project

[sglowrider]

A real bad precedent': Australia criticised for Antarctica airport plan
Multibillion-dollar project is unnecessary and damaging to wildlife, say scientists

Australia is planning to build Antarctica’s biggest infrastructure project: a new airport and runway that would increase the human footprint in the world’s greatest wilderness by an estimated 40%.

The mega-scheme is likely to involve blasting petrel rookeries, disturbing penguin colonies and encasing a stretch of the wilderness in more than 115,000 tonnes of concrete.

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Seriously, the real virus are humans. Spreading everywhere and killing mother nature.

 

[iuwclurker]

Nuke Australia. Pronto.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

A real bad precedent': Australia criticised for Antarctica airport plan
Multibillion-dollar project is unnecessary and damaging to wildlife, say scientists

Australia is planning to build Antarctica’s biggest infrastructure project: a new airport and runway that would increase the human footprint in the world’s greatest wilderness by an estimated 40%.

The mega-scheme is likely to involve blasting petrel rookeries, disturbing penguin colonies and encasing a stretch of the wilderness in more than 115,000 tonnes of concrete.

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Seriously, the real virus are humans. Spreading everywhere and killing mother nature.

Seems like a really bad idea to me.

 

[sglowrider]

Seems like a really bad idea to me.

Aussie politics is pretty corrupt.... it starts off with an airport that is way too big for the current requirement. Then suddenly folks like Rio Tinto starts talking about doing exploration stuff there., all paid by tax payer's money.

 

[Lucy01]

Will it be a heated runway?

 

[HillzHoozier]

Aussie politics is pretty corrupt.... it starts off with an airport that is way too big for the current requirement. Then suddenly folks like Rio Tinto starts talking about doing exploration stuff there., all paid by tax payer's money.

How's China doin?

 

[bwcoach]

A real bad precedent': Australia criticised for Antarctica airport plan
Multibillion-dollar project is unnecessary and damaging to wildlife, say scientists

Australia is planning to build Antarctica’s biggest infrastructure project: a new airport and runway that would increase the human footprint in the world’s greatest wilderness by an estimated 40%.

The mega-scheme is likely to involve blasting petrel rookeries, disturbing penguin colonies and encasing a stretch of the wilderness in more than 115,000 tonnes of concrete.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Seriously, the real virus are humans. Spreading everywhere and killing mother nature.

This really surprises me that Australia would be involved in something so ecologically destructive. They have/had been so conscientious about building structures so that it doesn’t affect the environment. The times we have been downunder we always heard how they built resorts by actually flying in building materials by helicopter to construct the resort. And you could see this by one lane roads thru the jungle like terrain that large trucks carrying materials could not have navigated. What a shame they’re lowering themselves.