07.01.08
I’m sure China will find someone to execute over this
BEIJING – To host the Olympic sailing events, the Chinese port city of Qingdao moved a massive boat yard, relocated industries and spent about $850 million on transport links, parks, pollution controls and coastal green belts.
But with little more than a month to go until the Games, a different challenge is cropping up: A forest of blue-green algae is choking the coastal waters, suffocating beaches and lying in thick layers along sailing routes.
Authorities have ordered an all-out drive to clear it and block any more drifting into the area…
City officials say they’ll need at least two weeks to clear coastal waters, mobilizing 10,000 workers aboard 1,000 boats. It wasn’t clear how they planned to block other algae from drifting in.
How about 10,000 of these?
John Barleycorn said,
July 2, 2008 at 11:12 am
So, wait, tell me: when I went to that link with the kid skimming his pool … what was he skimming? Because they looked like flattened pancakes of human feces.
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Cangrejero said,
July 2, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Oh man, they totally do! They must be his, that’s why he has to clean them up.
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