LGS Panama Tourism Development warned the Panamanian authorities that it will vigorously defend its tourism development project called Ciudad Maritima de Amador.
The promoter filed an appeal with the Ministry of the Environment (Mi Ambiente) after the environmental authorities decided to reject the Category 3 Environmental Impact Study for the maritime tourism project.
The project, which has an initial investment of more than $500 million to dredge, fill and develop 50 hectares to create the Amador Maritime City and promises the generation of more than 3,000 jobs in the construction phase, was not well received by environmental organizations, and communities surrounding the project.
The Ministry of Environment considered that the filling of a surface of 50 hectares of seabed would permanently modify the area occupied altering biotic and abiotic factors that exist in that area, in addition to permanently modifying the current composition of the landscape, which is one of the tourist attributes of the area.