The project to develop Marigot Bay, presented to the Territorial Council last Thursday, provides for a backfilled area of 21,5 hectares intended to accommodate hotel infrastructure, a seawall to cope with cyclones and a 32-hectare basin for medium cruising boats and inter-island traffic. Two years might be enough for such work which is not without problematic points.
First the financing: it is left to private investors who will have the benefits of operating the infrastructure in exchange for their construction. Of course, they will be required to follow the directions of the COM and the latter will not accept the first comer to carry out the project. But the duration of the concessions (more than 50 years), the fact that the preliminary studies (impact on the environment, public inquiry, consultation with the population) are the responsibility of the investors, which may seem absurd, and the discharge left to private sectors are cause for concern. The CESC has moreover issued an unfavorable opinion. Similarly, Jules Charville noted formulas left incomplete in the very body of the deliberation (notably on the duration of buildability of high-end housing) and highlighted the environmental and social risk (the Sandy Ground district). The project was however adopted by majority, despite 5 abstentions and an unfavorable vote by elected officials. _HM
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