If you are traveling along Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway on Monday afternoon, you might notice an irresponsible lack of red tape and safe practice along Carbon Beach’s local construction site operated on by Shawmut Design and Construction, owned by billionaire Larry Ellison. Upon spotting the incident, a local resident voiced his concerns to Steven Lippman’s Blue Project in order to create needed awareness.
Nearly two football fields length of plastic orange construction fencing was hazardously sucked into the ocean by the high tide near the building of two upcoming restaurants, one of which is the popular Nobu Japanese chain. Photos by the Blue Project’s Jobi Manson demonstrate construction workers going about their workday with little done to immediately correct their lack of accountability toward safety precautions.
Local Malibu residents, clearly concerned about the wavering amount of rusty nails, plastic squander and splintering wreckage in their water, have made it clear that the lack of cautionary measures is simply unacceptable when it comes to their children, beaches and marine life. In just one of many instances of local pollution, there is a growing concern for how much is being done to restore the ocean’s already damaged reputation to being a once-again safe environment.
In a community that prides itself on its pristine waters and eco-friendly living, organizations like the Blue Project are making extra efforts to raise awareness of everyday setbacks such as this that are easily avoidable and encourage its community to take a stand against the defiling of the world’s oceans and the lack of responsibility necessary when building along its shores.
To get involved and help make a difference, visit www.malibublueproject.org.
Matt Branham, Blue Project