Cuba USA
A comment on an earlier post points to an environmental impact study of the Cuba-Jamaica segment of the ALBA-1 undersea cable:
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Cuba USA
ALBA-1 environmental impact assessment
- Executive Summary
- Project Description
- Analysis of Alternatives
- Policy, Legislative & Regulatory Framework
- Description of Bio-Physical Environment
- Socio-Cultural & Socio-Economic Environment
- Determination of Potential Impacts
- Outline Environmental Management & Monitoring Plans
- References
Since the report was commissioned by the National Environment and Planning Agency of Jamaica, it focuses on Jamaica and and the Jamaican landing point.
Is there a similar document from Cuba?
Also, if you are a cable geek (even a little bit of one) and you have not seen them, check out Telegeography's interactive submarine cable map Neal Stephenson's description of the FLAG cable and the book by Arthur C. Clarke, which are described here.
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Doug Madory of Renesys, an Internet monitoring company, has reported that Cable and Wireless is no longer carrying traffic between Jamaica and Cuba, Telefonica is carrying less traffic than previously, and Tata is carrying more. Furthermore, the Tata...
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Doug Madory, who has been keeping us up to date on traffic (or the or lack of it) on the ALBA-1 submarine cable between Venezuela and Cuba pointed me to a new blog post this morning, in which he reports limited cable traffic. For the past six years, three...
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MIC Minisiter Maimir Mesa commenting on the ALBA-1 cableLast week I received an email from Doug Madory of Renesys Corporation, the Internet monitoring company. Doug is the analyst who, last May, provided us with smoking-gun evidence that the ALBA-1 undersea...
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The last news I heard of the ALBA-1 cable was in August, when it was announced that it would begin operation in September or October. I was waiting till the end of the month to ask about the cable, but the Havana Times recently published an editorial...
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As discussed in a previous post, China has played a major role in financing and installing the undersea cable between Venezuela and Cuba, but there has been little discussion of complementary domestic infrastructure needed to reach beyond the cable landing...