{"id":41983,"date":"2013-10-31T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/biminis-dive-tourism-in-peril-for-nothing"},"modified":"2013-10-31T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:26:58","slug":"biminis-dive-tourism-in-peril-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/biminis-dive-tourism-in-peril-for-nothing","title":{"rendered":"Bimini&#8217;s Dive Tourism in Peril &#8216;For Nothing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39206\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39206\" title=\"bimini-bahamas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bimini-bahamas-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bimini-bahamas-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bimini-bahamas-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bimini-bahamas.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Laine Doss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Resorts World\u2019s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) admits that Bimini\u2019s existing dive tourism model is potentially being placed \u201cat risk for nothing\u201d, a leading environmental attorney warned yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Romauld Ferreira likened both the developer\u2019s and the Government\u2019s determination to proceed with the $10-$15 million terminal\/jetty project to \u201cmadness\u201d, given that their own EIA conceded that the sustainability of Resorts World\u2019s Miami cruise ship service was questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from studying the EIA, Mr Ferreira said the document revealed that dredging necessary to create the 4.5 acre cruise terminal island would impact 25 acres of seabed &#8211; an area that contained most of Bimini\u2019s prime dive sites.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h43747-p7\">Describing the process followed by Resorts World and the Christie administration as \u201cass backwards\u201d, Mr Ferreira added that the admissions contained in the EIA showed why the Government and its agencies had adopted such a \u201cfortress mentality\u201d to transparency and public consultation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/30\/biminis-dive-tourism-in-peril-for-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resorts World\u2019s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) admits that Bimini\u2019s existing dive tourism model is potentially being placed \u201cat risk for nothing\u201d, a leading environmental attorney warned yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[414,53,76,33],"class_list":["post-41983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bimini","tag-diving","tag-environment-2","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}