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To: pat mudge who wrote (375)	8/6/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: riposte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3951

Cables proposed under preserve Actually, the one that caught my eye was the one from Monterey Bay to Hawaii to New Zealand... From SJ Mercury News: Cables proposed under preserve Site is Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary BY JOHN WOOLFOLK Mercury News Staff Writer Two telecommunications companies want to lay hundreds of miles of ocean-floor cable lines through the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as part of a vast underwater network to provide fast Internet connections to landlubbers along the West Coast and across the Pacific Ocean. The proposals for the cables, which would contain ultra-fast fiber-optic technology, are forcing regulators to decide whether the needs of the Information Age are compatible with the goal of protecting America's biggest oceanic preserve. The proposals, submitted by MCI WorldCom Inc. and a San Diego start-up called Global Photon Systems Inc., are preliminary and would have to win approval from a number of regional agencies. The plans will be considered today at a meeting of the Monterey sanctuary advisory council in Cambria. 'This is a new issue for us,'' sanctuary spokeswoman Lisa de Marignac said. ''We're in the process right now of finding out if we can even permit this kind of thing.'' Fueled by the demand for ever-faster Internet links, the two telecommunications companies have proposed running finger-thick fiber-optic cable along the sanctuary sea floor by next summer. Global Photon Systems plans to run a cable down the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego, coming ashore at five places. It would run 400 miles through the sanctuary, coming ashore at La Selva Beach, running inland around the deep submarine canyon off Moss Landing, then back to sea at the former Fort Ord. Another proposal, by communications giant MCI, calls for a cable stretching from New Zealand to Hawaii and California. That line would run nearly 60 miles through the sanctuary into Monterey Bay and also come ashore at La Selva Beach. [REMAINING TEXT DELETED] FULL TEXT @ mercurycenter.com