View of a barge-type power plants of Turkish company Karadeniz Powership in Los Negros beach, Azua Province, Dominican Republic on May 11, 2024. In 2022, the Ministry of Environment of the Dominican Republic granted a permit to install two barges that generate thermoelectric energy on the beach of Los Negros, which are located immediately next to a buffer zone, a protected area. In March 2023, the barges of the company Karadeniz Holding, of Turkish capital, dumped the “black water” into the sea, polluting the mangroves and the marine fauna. (Photo by Bernat-Lautaro Bidegain Ros / AFP)