Posted on 12/22/2014 10:44:00 AM PST by C19fan
As a conscripted soldier during the Contra War of the 1980s, Esteban Ruiz used to flee from battles because he didn't want to have to kill anyone. But now, as the 47-year-old farmer prepares to fight for his land, Ruiz insists, "I'm not going to run."
Ruiz's property on the banks of Nicaragua's Rio Grande sits in the path of a $50 billion transoceanic waterway set to break ground on Monday.
Nicaraguan officials will start building access roads on state-owned land as the first step in creating a canal expected to rival that of Panama - a project supporters say will directly employ 50,000 people and dramatically boost the country's GDP.
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Talk about an ecological disaster.
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
If I remember right the US was going for the Nicaragua route until someone in DC saw that stamp and the rest is history.
If you look at the original French company who did the Suez Canal....limited experience but they did a fantastic job. They tried to repeat it in Panama, and was an absolute failure. I think the Nicaragua route would be simpler in nature to the Panama Canal route. But there’s still massive locks involved, and no one has said how many ships they can handle per day. The Panama Canal typically handles around thirty ships a day.
A canal to nowhere.
This is some hollow lame handed shiite. And able to be “placed” under the novo-marxists and obamaumao looking the other way.
Time for the adults to take over, FReepers. Now!
The combo of domestic disturbance with this kind of strategic hegemony speaks of coordination. Plain and simple.
The chi-coms own the largest port site in the area of the Caribbean— in the Bahamas— large container ship port.
Is that right? There is a freaking volcano overlooking the canal area in Nicaragua?
Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on 6 July 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes.
This could be the makings of another "The bigger the bundle, the bigger the bungle". -tom
Panama is now getting close to completing the third set of locks which are big enough to handle the latest generation of super tankers.
It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, but I do think it won't hurt to have a little competition to help keep the canal prices down. As it stands now, it costs well over a hundred thousand dollars for ships to pass through there.
$50 billion?
That’s still cheaper than California’s High Speed rail project by scores of billions.
Of course, China wasn't in the mix then, HK was still British, and Simon Bolivar is still right about Central and South America...
third set of locks which are big enough to handle the latest generation of super tankers.
Not that big.
locks having dimensions of 427 m (1400 ft) in length,
55m (180 ft) in width and
18.3 m (60 ft) in depth,
in order to accommodate larger ships called New Panamax
http://maritime-connector.com/wiki/panamax/
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The TI Class Super Tankers: The Fantastic Four
http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/the-ti-class-super-tankers-the-fantastic-four/
380 metres lengthwise,
68 metres breadth wise,
34 metres depth wise
The article appears to contradict itself. Projects in other countries may have failed because of difficulties in getting sign-offs from local communities. Not the first time this has happened. In Third World countries, the principal issue is the tendency to squeeze foreign companies until their projects are unprofitable, so many will abandon them rather than take significant losses. In developed countries, the authorities may sign-off on a project only to have massive latent opposition bubble up once local communities either (1) are stirred up by environmentalists or (2) get the impression that they are about to get the short end of the stick. It is ironically more difficult to get project sign-offs in Third World countries because the locals figure Santa has come to town and demand things that a developer cannot conceivably grant. But that's why they're Third World countries - development is impossible there.
Without American know how this will wind up like Delessups efforts in Panama
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