VIEW EVENT INFORMATION: Burning Man
A Wall Around Burning Man?
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Status: Available Now!
Type: News
Date: Tuesday 16 April 2019, 12:00 AM
Media: Mixmag

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About the organization Burning Man:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Event Production, Event Promotion, Entertainment Production, Entertainment Promotion, Ticketing Agent
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The Nevada branch of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has sent forth a 372-page proposal that reviews the potential "environmental, social, and economic consequences" of the world-famous Burning Man festival. The BLM, which administers the Black Rock Desert where the weeklong event has taken place since 1990, has blindsided the festival's organizers with this "untenable" scheme which was sent to them after they filed their request for a new 10-year permit that gives them access to "the playa". The two-volume Draft Environmental Impact Statement sent over by the BLM asks for a major overhaul of the festival's setup and overall operation. These changes address trash build-up, air and light pollution, the safety of migratory birds and more. Burning Man replied to the proposal with a statement, saying many of these changes are "in direct conflict with the Burning Man community’s core principles" and "would forever negatively change the fabric of the Burning Man event, if not outright kill it". One striking proposal included on the BLM's assertion that is in line with one of the Trump Administration's calling cards is the construction of a 10-mile, 19,000,000-pound concrete wall around the Black Rock City perimeter fence. According to the BLM, these hardened physical barriers (such as jersey barriers or K-rail fencing) would "reduce the risk of vehicle entry through perimeter fencing" and "enhance site security, define the event site, and prevent windblown trash from leaving the site". Burning Man has called this wall "logistically onerous, environmentally irresponsible, unnecessarily redundant, prohibitively expensive". Despite the fact that an event perimeter has been effectively established and maintained with a temporary and wind-permeable barrier (also known as the trash fence), the event claims these physical barriers would result in 10 miles of dunes that would "need to be remediated with heavy machinery" and would be less effective at catching trash then the fence that is installed every year.
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