Poland is pressing ahead with plans to dig a waterway across a narrow strip of land that separates its main eastern coastline from the Baltic Sea despite concerns among activists and in the European Union that it could damage the environment.
The Vistula Spit is a heavily wooded sandbank 55km long but less than 2km wide which encloses a coastal lagoon.
Poland shares both the lagoon and the spit with the neighbouring Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Currently, the only access to the lagoon from the Baltic Sea is a channel at the Russian end of the spit.
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), …read more
Source: Gulf times
