Catering for more than 96,000 tourists annually and comprising environmentally disastrous resorts, there's little to commend Hurghada.

We are worried that all this development will be environmentally disastrous, will have a tremendous impact on traffic and will change the character of the neighborhood.

We are looking critically at many expensive, unnecessary and environmentally disastrous practices that crept into our hospitals in the 1980s.

"It is unsafe and environmentally disastrous," said Marianne Dunnell of nearby Wingdale.

Many local residents in the mountain communities say that simply widening the road, which is one of those preferred options, would be environmentally disastrous and shortsighted.

Mixing of waters from two watersheds has been environmentally disastrous - much of the Fish River ecosystem is now taken over by Orange River flora and fauna.

Unlike the environmentally disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill four years earlier (a clear-cut case of negligence involving a drunken captain), it wasn't as if Shell was doing anything illegal.

Insecticides were good for one particular task but disastrous environmentally.

The Fisheries Partnership Agreements concluded with third countries are totally unfair and extremely damaging for the local population, and they have environmentally disastrous consequences.

The issue is not 'growth or no-growth'- no-growth can be environmentally disastrous.