Cedar Island = Destructive Project

If by now you haven't received the following email, then here it is:

“Beirut - "Noor International Holding", located in Beirut, declared its determination to present to the Lebanese official authorities the development of "Lebanon's Cedar Island" project facing the Lebanese coast in order to get the approvals. The company revealed also that the project is an artificial island in the sea and it is similar to Lebanon's national symbol. It is worth mentioning that this island will be the biggest artificial tree in the history”

"Dr. Saleh confirmed that the project, in its plans, takes into consideration the protection of the maritime environment without causing any damages to it due to the fact that some of the Island's parts will be the cedar's branches floating above the sea surface."

Thank you but NO THANK YOU. We already have trees and green and mountains and a great beach and a great weather and a great location in Lebanon, we do not need to go by imitating Dubai (who originally imitated us in the first place) and create fake things by killing the maritime life.

We still have a little bit of great nature in Lebanon, forests, mountains and a very nice sea. We do not need to fake things.

Dr. Saleh, are you sure this project takes into consideration the protection of the maritime environment? How is that possible? It is going to take up a lot of space in the sea, are you going to send a note to all the fish and turtles and algues and everything to move to a new section in the sea?

Plus, the money that will be spend on this project can be used to much more useful and needed projects in Lebanon. We need 24h electricity, we need better roads, we need more job opportunities, we need more scholarships for the youth, we need better security forces, we need order, we need better social security, etc... etc...