Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority made the controversial decision on Friday to allow about 800 million gallons of dredge spoil -- mud and ocean sediment -- to be dumped in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, part of the world’s most famous and largest coral reef system. The decision to dump the sediment into the Coral Sea
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“We wouldn’t throw rubbish on World Heritage sites like the Grand Canyon or the Vatican City, so why would we dump on the reef?”