News Headline
The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua's big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?
Source
Mongabay.com
Publication Date
2014-08-28
A hundred years ago, the Panama Canal reshaped global geography, allowing ships for the first time to bypass the long and perilous journey around Cape Horn by simply cutting through a continent. Now a new project, spearheaded by a media-shy Chinese millionaire, wants to compete with the infamous canal, building a 278-kilometer (173-mile) canal through Nicaragua.
Content
http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0827-gfrn-hance-nicaragua-canal.html