Posted on 11/18/2024 2:55:40 PM PST by xxqqzz
The head of the world's largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid jaw-dropping claims about its death toll.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, Nadhmi al-Nasr, the CEO of Saudi Arabia's futuristic city project Neom — which includes The Line, a planned pair of skycrapers that would be 100 miles in length — has abruptly departed the role he's held since 2018. This exit comes after a new Channel 3 documentary alleged that more than 21,000 foreign workers had died during its construction, a figure that doesn't even seem to include the number of indigenous people displaced and disappeared during Neom's construction.
Sources familiar with the executive shakeup confirmed to the newspaper that he had left the position in recent days, though it remains unclear why exactly the Neom CEO left and whether it had to do with the recent allegations.
In an email viewed by the WSJ, Neom's board named Aiman al-Mudaifer, a real estate executive with the Saudi kingdom's Public Investment Fund, as al-Nasr's successor. In that email, Neom's governing body said the move was a "strategic decision of the Board and a natural evolution."
While the specter of all those deaths hangs over the project, insiders who spoke to the WSJ said that the Public Investment Fund is now stepping in to take over after repeated delays and ballooning budgets on the project that seems very difficult to execute.
An experienced builder, al-Nasr oversaw the construction of both a giant oil field for the kingdom's Aramco oil company and a university complex jutting up against the Red Sea.
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Bizarre.
I can’t fathom such a “building.”
It would take quadrillions of dollars to make.
Its hard to believe that so many would have to die before the story got out.
Sounds like the ChiCom “Ghost Cities” on steroids.
I want a building that is:
Eight miles high, and when you touch down
You’ll find that it’s stranger than known
Of course nobody would ever think of crashing a plane into it. /s
Maybe just one quad.
A thousand trillion.
Yeah seems insane.
foreign workers are just slaves to them
Check with Byrd Construction on that one.
Reminds of one those beehive buildings from the Judge Dredd movie. The Government elites like to pitch it as a ‘15 minute nirvana’, but they are planning to house the unwashed commoners in these dystopian hell holes - while they reserve the open places for themselves.
That building would barely notice.
Gnat on the windshield.
:)
Sorry, but there is, to me, something wrong mentally to WANT to build a skyscraper 100 miles long and 1,600 feet high.
Great song, but my favorite is “I Wasn’t Born to Follow.”
The story of Saudi brutality and slavery has been out for years, decades, but no one pays any attention to it. Because oil?
Just when they finish building it, all workers will be ordered to work from home because of a new pandemic.
What do you think illegal aliens are here?
100 MILES HIGH??!!!!!...why? That’s a ridiculous and impractical goal. No building is worth over 20K people dying to construct it. Seems like that kind of “look at me!”building would make an irresistible target for some other country with a bone to pick.
100 miles long.
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