TECH - SpaceX Slams Reports Of Negative Environmental Impact Of Its Starbase Facility In Texas As 'Misleading' | Benzinga
Elon Musk’s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Wednesday slammed a recent media report on the negative environmental impact of its operations at Boca Chica, Texas as “super misleading.”
What Happened: SpaceX denied claims of its operations harming the environment, while focussing on the particular claims of its operations at Boca Chica threatening the piping plover population through 2021.
“The frequently cited study conducted by Newstead and Hill (2021) is outdated and unreliable for describing potential piping plover population trends over time,” SpaceX said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
The company also alleged that the presence or absence of the birds during the study’s field visits may be due to a variety of factors besides changes in population size, such as migration.
Furthermore, Newstead and Hill reanalyzed their data and published a follow-up report in 2022 which found no changes in population abundance of the plovers at Boca Chica over time, SpaceX said.
The company also added that it ...