/sci/ - Science & Math

All the whining about starbase's environmental and social effect made me search a bit about the French Guyana space center, and frankly it's not pretty either

>400 people had to be evicted to build the space Center in the 60s
>a native Americans tribe was relocated to a poorly built neighbourhood of kourou that is now prone to coastal erosion and flooding
>About 400 km2 of primary forest had to be flooded to make a hydroelectric dam to power the additional Ariane 5 facilities in the 90s
>this dam halved the biodiversity in the Sinnamary river and worsened the pollution caused by alluvial gold mining
>Ariane 6 launch pad construction over an area wealthy in biodiversity was twice refused by the French nature protection agency, but still went ahead on the conditions the CNES would fund an equivalent protected natural park, they lobbied their way having a cheap French foreign legion weapon testing ground designated as the protected area