The Cedar Island Project

[rob]

[lebanese_raver]

[mzy]

[crow]

[DiabloK]

[TranceFusion]

[[IN]Head-Kay]

L_R nothing will bring stability to this country, well apart from us being united, but thats another topic. Why would a giant freaky cedar in the middle of the sea bring stability? It might generate jobs, thats for sure, and it will bring some tourists in general. Why does whoever is investing in this want the world to think of the lebanese as followers, not innovators. The Lebanese have always been innovators, why should they look to copy other country's projects? Its harmful for our image, for the environment, and is pointless.

[UnFoRgivEr]

who cares !!!
i love this project ...

[silver_edge]

I saw in the newspaper 2day that a lot of major contracting companies dont think this would happen anytime soon,for them its just a big fantasy that wont take place anytime soon or in the near future ...
its not even confirmed yet :s so y make a big deal bout it?

[samer]

ya far7etna! a cedar in the sea w none in the mountains anymore!!
baddo ybalto el ba7er w makeno ya3rfo yzafto el ter2at!

[nabzkay]

my friend on Facebook wrote:

I don't know about the rest of you but I will start with why I'm against it. to my knowledge, there are a bunch of ugly nouveau-riche looking, style-lacking development projects around Beirut recently, and I'm against most of them because:

1- the residents of the areas where these projects are being built have not been taken into account. no one has asked (or in fact ever asks) the neighbors in Lebanon before building something to distort the view they enjoyed for years. What about the locals? don't they mind?

2- I'm sure that building this thing, the environment will be affected negatively. After all, the people who are going to live on it will directly pollute the sea... for instance: where will the sewage go? (again, in Leb.. most of the time it goes straight to sea), what about these ppl throwing stuff in the sea?

3- it is U.G.L.Y and inconsistent with the environment of any region in Lebanon, the culture, the style.
we are not a desert that builds tower to be noticeable... we have a very special environment, climate, beaches, old building style that we should preserve instead of building eye-raping expensive projects that attempt to be modern but instead end up distorting modernization to ugliness.

4- what's in in for the Lebanese, really? people from the gulf are going to develop it, build it, live on it, and probably employ Indians to work for them, just like in Dubai. I really don't see how it creates 50,000 jobs for the Lebanese.

5- did I mention it's ugly and rapes our culture and shows that the Arabs would like to turn us into Dubai? since when is dubai something to follow aesthetically? if they have bad taste... then why do we let them practice it on our territory?

6- also, it's a big Arab statement saying "we don't care that you don't have any more space for us in Beirut, and that you really don't like us deep down.. but we don't care. we can buy our way out of it by building an island on your territory where we can live and take advantage of your climate and more lenient rules, and you will approve because we will shape it like a cedar".
At least, it's the message I get from it.

7- before going off with extravagant nouveau-riche taste projects that will not benefit the poorer class in our country, and may I note we have a pretty high unemployment rate there... we should take care of creating jobs, living spaces and opportunities there.

ever thought and contemplated about the social gaps in Lebanon? if they increase more we're surely going to head towards another political standstill and people will be unhappy and would want to protest.

let's pretend you're living in a wooden-like shack on the coast of 2ouza3i or anywhere towards Damour and u see this thing rising in front of u.. how would u feel? what would u do?

[TranceFusion]

^ What your friend said is the whole truth. Respect to him

[lebanese_raver]

Why would any normal company who wants 2 make profits, invest millions in a country, which its future might be unstable due to[assasinations, political conflicts, and wars]?

what i meant is, knowing the Cedar Island Project project is approved along side with other projects, such as Beirut Gate project[TC= $1.2bn] is 100% approved and Le Grey Hotel in DT, will give some sort of stability to Lebanon in an indirect way.

[TranceFusion]

What's Beirut Gate project? is there among those project one that would solve the electricity problem? Like for example open an electrical station that generates electricity from solar batteries or from water? Or are they all gayish?

[rob]

Beirut gate is one of the few recent projects that is at least taking in consideration the citizens of Beirut, by renovating Martyr’s square and building a public pedestrian bridge linking it to the sea and the Biel peninsula, along with several financial towers around.