Controversial logging is underway to build a canal on the Vistula Spit

The clearcutting of trees near the planned canal on the Vistula Spit is underway. The Voivode of Pomerania has issued a building permit to construct the canal and machines are working day and night. All this, despite a pending appeal against the decision, the opposition of ecologists and reservations of the European Commission. Since 2006, the canal has been a flagship project of Law and Justice and is meant to allow for Polish ships to dock in the town of Elbląg, without sailing through Russian waters.