Paved roads might have encouraged travelers to discover the local fishing camps instead of being flown in on charter planes and whisked away to fancy ecocamps run by nonlocals. A legitimate question to ask was whether we wanted that risk to whales introduced in this place. Once you allow change, there is no way to go back. Guerrero Negro was desert before ESSA came. Now the factory's generators hum night and day.
Shacks offer pizza.
Trash blows in the harsh wind. It's a gritty city of 13,000. In their campaign the NRDC and other groups worked with local communities, particularly the fishing town of Punta Abreojos outside the lagoon, where the pier would have been located. Fishermen there opposed the plant for pragmatic reasons. They were worried about their abalone beds and lobster catches.