If India can do it, why cannot Canada? India is refurbishing thirteen (13) lighthouses! Canada is demolishing hundreds! Why is India doing it? For tourism! Tourism is not important to Canada?
India is doing this even though they have just installed a new Automatic Identification System (AIS) for most vessels on their coast. Lighthouses are still needed they said.
What happens when most of Canada’s beautiful lighthouses are demolished and the next government in ten years decides they are needed. Build more? Not likely knowing the Canadian government mentality. You will have a light atop a pole. So much for history!
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from the Hindu Business Line
Chennai, India, August 05, 2012
Some of the famous lighthouses in the country are getting a facelift.
The Government plans to develop 13 lighthouses into tourism spots through the private-public-partnership.
IL&FS has prepared a feasibility report on the project which is likely to cost over Rs 300 crore.
The iconic lighthouse on the Marina beach in Chennai and the Mamallapuram lighthouse, are among the famous lighthouses that will get a facelift. The lighthouse on Marina will house a lighthouse museum, said the Union Shipping Minister, G.K. Vasan. Continue reading Reprint – Lighthouses To Get a Facelift