Negril

In 2012 ShoreLock was awarded a project by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) in Jamaica to test ShoreLock™ Technology as part of the Government of Jamaica, European Union, and United Nations Environmental Program’s “Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Program”. The project was supervised by the University of the West Indies and specified pilot locations in Font Hill, St. Elizabeth, Negril, Westmoreland, and the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory (University of the West Indies). Not long after the announcement, the Jamaican Environmental Trust (JET) wrote The Jamaica Observer newspaper questioning the use and efficacy of the previously tested ShoreLock™ Technology without contacting us to ask for information on the safety of the product and the reporting that would have eased their concerns. Instead, as many things in today’s world they took to the media for attention resulting in the article here. 

The United Nations Environmental Program did a year long study in partnership with the Univeristy of the West Indies and found The ShoreLock™ Technology to be environmentally SAFE to use and the project stabilized the coastline. For more information on the full findings click here for the reports from the project. Since the project’s completion, NEPA has continued to issue beach licenses for the use of ShoreLock™ and we continue our commitment to providing an outstanding environmentally sustainable alternative to beach nourishment. 

For additional questions, please email us at info@shorelock.com