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from the chickens-lay-eggs...-what-lays-a-cable? dept.
The Hawaiki Cable, which would create trans-Pacific competition for those shipping bits across the ocean to Australia and New Zealand, plans to get its Australian landing in place by August 2017.
That information comes via its environmental impact statement, published in this PDF.
In the document, the company says it will be using the Coogee cable landing, which is part of the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Southern Sydney Cable Protection Zone.
Other cables in the zone are the southern landings of Australia-Japan Cable and Southern Cross Cable, Telstra's Endeavour Cable, and the venerable Tasman 2 cable.
Surveying is due to begin in December 2016, the filing states, and it notes that the cable layers will try not to upset whales during their migration season. Here's the cetacean clause:
“Surveying activities have been scheduled to start and complete in December 2016, avoiding the sensitive window of whale migratory season. Delays in the commencement of cable surveying could push the survey into January/February 2017; should this occur, surveying activities are still well ahead of the whale migratory season which commences in May and continues through to November. Hence sufficient contingency period has been allowed to restrict surveying activities outside of migration season”.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday October 10 2016, @10:04PM
I for one am glad to see that we are protecting the whales. You never know when their friends will come back to Earth to check on them [imdb.com].
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?