Edwards said he is looking into the environmental impacts stemming from elevator operations.A space elevator attached to the equatorial Pacific would irreparably disrupt the migration pattern of the rara avis.
Right. There wouldn't be just one space cable. They would be built everyplace around the equator where a suitable anchor could be located --an irregular spider's web of strands with a radius 10 times that of earth itself.
Imagine the potential conflict with commsats in geosynch orbit.