Musk’s dream vote for Starbase City in Texas. world News
Houston: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of achieving a city status for his SpaceX spaceport in Texas in the southern American state of Texas can become a reality on Saturday, in which voters were set for green lights star As a new municipality.
There is little doubt on the result of the ballot that will probably name a senior SpaceX representative as the mayor of the new settlement.
Most of the 283 eligible voters are SpaceX employees working on the border of Mexico on Boca Chika Bay, or have connections with the company, whose billionaire chief has long consider a human mission for Mars.
Most ballots have already been ahead of the deadline of 7:00 pm (0100 GMT) on Saturday.
Musk is registered to vote himself, Cameron County Election Coordinator Remi Garza told AFP, but the South African-born 53-year-old did not vote on the closure of the initial voting period on 29 April.
Around 500 people live around the base in Cameron County, mostly on the land owned by SpaceX or its employees, show official documents.
The change will allow the starbase to control and allow the building and avoid other regulatory obstacles and avoid other regulatory obstacles while writing local laws.
The vote comes at a difficult time for Musk, which is expected to reduce his role as informal head of the “Government’s Department of Efficiency”, the cost of US President Donald Trump, instead to focus more on his distressed car company, Tesla.
The vote on Saturday involves a mayor’s election, but according to LinkedIn, Bobby Peden, vice -president of the test and launch in SpaceX, is the only candidate on the ballot for the post.
Texas Base was launched at 2019 and is a major test site for the company’s rocket launch.
Not everyone is excited about the possibility of SpaceX Town.
South Texas Environmental Justice Network co-founder Beka Hinozosa expressed concern over the environmental impact, “Warning of more environmental destruction.”
“They will try more illegal dumping, they will build their dangerous rocket operations and cause more seismic activity, cause our homes to move, and they will destroy more wildlife housing in the region,” they told AFP.
environmental concerns
It was a musk itself who proposed Starbase in the social media post during the site visit four years ago.
Then, last December, SpaceX General Manager Catherine luders Appealed to local authorities to give site city status.
Luders argued in his letter that SpaceX has already maintained infrastructure like roads, education services and medical care.
Lueders promised that the creation of the new city would not reduce the spacex efforts to reduce the environmental impact of Aadhaar.
SpaceX did not respond to the AFP request for comments.
Hub ignores Gulf of Mexico – Trump changed the name of the Gulf of America- and there is a dispute over access to Boka Chika Beach.
The Texas House State Affairs Committee rejected a bill by Republican MPs this week, which would have given the coastal cities with spaceports control over the use of the beach.
Activist, Hinozosa said that SpaceX had a limited access to Boka Chika Beach for many years and told AFP that he was worried that the vote could completely cut access to a beach “Our families are going from generations.”
Carizo/Comorudo Nation of Texas, descendants of an indigenous tribe in the region have also complained.
In 2024, Environmental Protection Agency And Texas officials found that SpaceX was responsible for repeated spreads and release of pollutants into the waterway of Texas.
In response to reports that its rockets had damaged the nest of the wild bird, Musk took a pinch on social media: “To make this heinous crime, I would avoid having a weeks for a week.”
