None anymore at least
Comment on Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The test stand is only about 5 km away from the city’s downtown and less than a kilometer from a smaller village.
No NIMBY in The People’s Republic ™.
geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Not for long anyway.
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The test facility was dangerously close to city resulting at minimum in an enormous amount of broken windows (clearly heard in the recorded videos) and no doubt harm to people associated with large volumes of breaking windows.
Liz@midwest.social 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure it’s ridiculously hard to stop government projects in your backyard there. The best you can do is refuse to sell your land.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It won’t matter if you do, unless you’re a Party member. Example: the completion of the Three Gorges Dam was accompanied by forcing upwards of 30 million people to move. No compensation or new housing provided…just move somewhere else or you’ll drown. Fascinating book based on his long term reporting (I think New York Times IIRC), “River Town” by Peter Hessler. He was there, he lived it.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Chinese don’t own the land, the government is. And even if they own it, local officials can always call in the bulldozers midnight.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It‘s impossible. You can protest against mid sized manufacturers that pollute the environment but you cannot do anything whatsoever against directly state baked companies that do the real damage at which point you might rightfully ask yourself: „Why bother about the environment or safety whatsoever? The state says it takes care of it and I have no say in it anyway.“
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These projects tend to bring a bunch of economic development along with it. Would be like Floridians rejecting Cape Canaveral or Texans trying to shut down SpaceX. Locals might not be thrilled, but developers and business leaders are ready for the rest of you to take the risk.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yet those don’t have cities right next to the blast zone
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cape Canaveral is directly east of Orlando, with a bunch of vacation resort spots hugging the shore. The Florida coastline isn’t exactly lightly developed, either.