Protecting 715 acres of public land from SpaceX
This is what happens when a trillionaire-owned company starts treating public land like its own testing grounds.
@uriel.cinema is taking you straight to the frontlines in Brownsville, Texas, where @spaceX has rapidly expanded across a rare coastal ecosystem, including land that belongs to the public and is meant to be protected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
They described their first site as a “small testing facility.” But it’s become something much larger: a growing industrial footprint in a crucially important habitats for endangered ocelots, sea turtles, and migratory birds.
As if they didn’t have enough, they now want to take 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge for additional dangerous testing that is literally killing wildlife and destroying plants.
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