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Ocean Messengers will create awareness with people who will be influenced and disturbed by the industries around Port Elizabeth, South Africa, but mainly awareness by the industry itself!
Our aim is that we document scientifically proven facts, backed up by local scientists and universities which will show figures to the industries that they will not be able to make profit here where they plan to operate from.
The arguments are based on the predicted investments by different company's (Alcan, Aluminum Smelter, Chemical Companies, and waste management), and their predicted turnover and employment, that we as Ocean Messengers can and will be able to prove:
That all tourist involved businesses will be negatively influenced and even need to close down, due to pollution and heavy metals, (if the politics of these companies doesn’t change)
That the environment as in land and sea, particularly around PE will be extremly badly and irreversible harmed and destroyed.
The Coega development is bordering the Addo Elephant National Park and will be in direct “competition” to the aims of the National Park. Hence the investment from SA Government over the past 40 years is at stake, and the future repair amounts to be calculated and covered by the responsible industries will actually be so high that there will not be any way for any company to produce profitable. Ocean Messengers wants to proof this and put it on paper and present these figures to the industry and to the Government.
Apart from all these “theoretical” instruments and studies, we want to create a further film production which will reach cinemas worldwide. This production will use existing footage, but more actual film work would be essential as well. This film will be targeting the national and international market and possibly be presented in cinemas around the world.
