From May 30, 2014:
Recognizing that their proposal is deeply flawed, the investors behind the Cabo Dorado project tried to make a tactical retreat by temporarily removing the project from formal consideration. In an open letter to President Peña Nieto and other officials printed today, the two companies pushing Cabo Dorado, the massive tourism and real-estate project proposed near Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo National Park, announced they would withdraw their project’s environmental impact statement and instead submit a revised version at a later date. Yet their attempted do-over was trumped by the announcement that SEMARNAT, Mexico’s environmental ministry, had in fact already made a decision on the project – a decision the company reportedly refused to formally receive. We’ll have to wait for SEMARNAT’s ruling to be made public (once the company receives it) to see what it says exactly. But one thing is crystal clear; the Cabo Dorado project is not the right type of project for the region.
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