I think the “just waiting for a launch license” thing has been misleading a few times in the past, and I suspect that’s going on (or at least was the case) again here. That being said, I do wish that all of these agencies could pay better and staff up enough to get through this type of investigation more quickly.
Industrial runoff, even of pure fresh water, can really mess with the balance of a brackish area. They should have done sea-launch from the beginning if they didn’t want to be a good neighbor to the public lands around the launch site.
Right, but it doesn’t seem like anyone cared about this piece of nature before SpaceX was there? Of course that doesn’t give them the right to pollute as they want, but at this point it feels like they’re treating it like some kind of special protected reserve
I think the “just waiting for a launch license” thing has been misleading a few times in the past, and I suspect that’s going on (or at least was the case) again here. That being said, I do wish that all of these agencies could pay better and staff up enough to get through this type of investigation more quickly.
Industrial runoff, even of pure fresh water, can really mess with the balance of a brackish area. They should have done sea-launch from the beginning if they didn’t want to be a good neighbor to the public lands around the launch site.
Right, but it doesn’t seem like anyone cared about this piece of nature before SpaceX was there? Of course that doesn’t give them the right to pollute as they want, but at this point it feels like they’re treating it like some kind of special protected reserve