Boca Chca Beach Case

For decades, the only things launching from Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, Texas were ospreys and seagulls. Today, however, a new battle is brewing over this ground. The space company SpaceX has identified a remote spot on the southern tip of Texas as its finalist for construction of the worlds newest commercial orbital launch site. The company should only revoke its final jurisdiction on settling their company in this ill-fated town, and find a place more adept to the situations that will be placed upon the city involved.
Boca Chica has a legacy of its own, one that has nothing to do with nose cones and rocket thrusters. The space launch will be quick, easy money. Not only will it damage an immensely valuable coastal grassland, but it will also annihilate the habitat for “one of the most sought-after Valley sparrow specialties, Botteri’s sparrow” (Oko). Brownsville is a nice, peaceful place, but if SpaceX settles, it’s going to be “a lot [busier], a lot [louder], and a lot more [congested]” (Burnett).
Many are also feeling immense betrayal over the need to close Boca Chica Beach on launch days. The FAA has mandated that during a launch “people must be kept up to five miles away in order to protect them from extreme heat, loud noise, noxious emissions, and potential
That’s a lot of money flowing into Texas’s most chronically depressed region. Although, when really taken into consideration, how many of these jobs are actually suitable and ideal for the people that currently reside in Brownsville? Many here are not adept into the world of Aeronautical science. The jobs SpaceX will be ‘creating’ are nothing more than job openings and transfers for people that have past experience in this field of work or are transferring over from other private launch