Sargassum: a problem and a solution
The absence of a public policy to manage sargassum impacts Puerto Rico’s coastal communities in different ways. Neither the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources nor the federal government have precise strategies to deal with the problem.
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Sargassum Hits the Puerto Rico Coasts, Department of Nature and Environment Lacks Mitigation Plan
By Rafael R. Díaz Torres | March 16, 2023
Dozens of municipalities have privatized their public nuisances management programs and let companies handle public nuisances’ determinations, appraisals, legal representation in courts of the expropriation processes, and even seeing through the sales of expropriated properties.
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Money-Making Opportunity Found for Sargassum in Puerto Rico
By Rafael R. Díaz Torres | July 15, 2021
In a virtual conference coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme, in which the new findings on sargassum are presented, it is unexpectedly revealed that a research and production center that works with this algae is located in Cataño, a town across the San Juan Bay. Via Zoom, Jason Cole, Executive Vice President of Innovations […]
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Puerto Rico Lacks Direction to Manage Sargassum Problem
By Rafael R. Díaz Torres | July 15, 2021
On Alfonso XII Street in the Punta Santiago, a coastal neighborhood in Humacao, 62-year-old Bermuda Vázquez points toward the beach that is blanketed with brown seaweed, known as sargassum. Although it was a day off in midsummer to commemorate the emancipation of slavery in the United States, beachgoers were nowhere to be seen. “The thing […]
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