To save and claim present land and restore water covered land, strong, large, plastic stackable gabion boxes are made with slits that have lips to catch floating mud and sand and so to fill the gabion box with mud and sand settling from the water (instead of using stones). The slits allow roots and/or growth to come out to bind the gabion to its surroundings and not be washed away in floods. Lids have holes to let floating mud in and rice, etc. to grow out. Machinery may be used to more speedily fill the gabions while deepening canals. Land may be recovered by stacking the Gabions, and securing them with poles driven into the mud.
The gabions have the shape and function of house bricks and are say 2 metres X 1 metre X 1 metre
The land to be saved or to be restored is bordered and patterned with gabions, as if they were pavers. Suitable plants and trees are planted in the gabions to ensure the gabions are anchored by the roots to the surroundings. Trees bear fruit and provide fuel. When additional layers of ‘pavers’ are added, holes and slits may be cut in the gabion boxes to accommodate existing plants and trees. (Slits would be laced-up afterwards).
Bangladesh Land that has been abandoned to the sea – may be claimed like an old (pre-1971) South Australian opal mining claim that had Miners Rights. The claim area would be about one acre. A person may only have one claim at a time and it must be worked.. In that way a person may restore and retain sufficient land for a family - a home - to grow food – but not to graze animals, nor to monopolise land.
Financing Solution - a Medium-size Version of The Money Solution
Permatricity Limited will initiate the scheme by selling the gabions on 5 years credit If a buyer later abandons his land claim, he endorses his debt and ownership of gabions to the new claimant/buyer.
*Small low sandy Islands.*
The same 5 year credit deal is offered. By using big rocks and hydroponics, sunflowers and other plants may be grown in the Wind Nanagement Structures. .
*Necessary Government Support*
The Exporting Country (UK, Australia, etc ) provides standard Capital Goods Export Finance Insurance. The Importing Country (Bangladesh) provides standard credit-worthiness checks.
*Tributors (Sharefarmers)*
If a person wants to work land, but is not accepted for Export Finance Insurance, that person may be a Tributor for a person who is credit.worthy and able to buy capital goods on credit
*Amalgamation of Claims*
Up to 4 Claims may be joined together to form a partnership/syndicate. Claims must always be pegged and marked as per an opal mining claim. The Government will need to mark out the ‘Restoration Field’ (as per an Opal Field) and the claims are made within that field. When building starts the field becomes a Permatri City
Claims with homes must have an electric, methane or hydrogen boat (also available on 5 years credit) and canal access to permanently dry land. Canals must improve the flow of flood water, not impede the flow. Claims must have a sewage/waste to gas plant and also wind turbine and photovoltaic plant - all available on 5 years credit - to charge batteries and for cooking.
Claimants are mining hydrogen and lithium; they will build a water tower for a mini-hydroelectric plant and commercially produce and sell hydrogen, lithium, electricity, and pure water, along with the surplus food they grow.
Hydrogen, and gas from sewage will replace firewood as a cooking and heating fuel; more trees will be grown for flood protection, for timber, and to absorb CO2
This scheme can be commenced immediately to end the danger from rising sea levels and to improve the lifestyles of millions of people. Other world deltas may be used in the same way to ‘grow land’ and ‘mine hydrogen’.
When all of the shallow water land is claimed, deeper land may be recovered and claimed, by stacking the Gabions, and securing them with poles driven into the mud.
All approved capital goods will be sold on 5 years credit.
Starting Now
I copyrighted the financing documents used to build a good business. We worked within the guidelines of Australia's Export Finance Insurance Corporation; other countries have the equivalent.
More than a century ago Australia wanted men to mine for gold but the bureaucracy was harsh. The Victorian miners revolted and there was a brief 'civil war' called Eureka Stockade. Arising out of that came the Miners Right and South Australia copied that law. In the late 1960's I had a Miners Right. In the early 1970's a new batch of bureaucrats abolished the Miners Right and replaced it with a Prospecting Permit.
The Miners Right Law enabled workers to stake a claim and keep it for as long as they worked it. Coober Pedy, where I mined, is like a sea of arid dirt. In Bangladesh the water is covering the fertile land, just as dirt covered the opal. Some machinery is needed to bring the fertile land to the surface - that costs money.
We need one or more Bangladeshi worker who wants to peg a claim to mine for hydrogen and live on the claim. That worker pegs his claim by following the old Australian Mining Law. Then that (those) hydrogen miner(s) asks the Government to declare an area of shallow water to be a Hydrogen and Lithium Mining Field. When the Government makes the declaration the workers ask Permatricity Limited to supply them with the mining capital equipment they need on 5 years credit. (gabions, boats, pipes, electrolysis, solar panels, wind turbines, etc)
Permatricity Limited will then approach UK and Australian Export Finance Insurers to gain approval to supply the hydrogen/lithium miner on 5 years credit. The hydrogen miner may have to bring in partners or guarantors. When the finance is organised the orders are placed with the manufacturers and the machinery is shipped. Four hydrogen miners may amalgamate their claims into one company claim..
One person in Bangladesh needs to start - millions may follow. Provided Laws are properly followed everyone knows what to do. There is plenty of good land just under the water and there are plenty of people close by who can use hydrogen. The mining plant need not take up very much land space so traditional crops can be grown. New crops where roots permanently bind the mud should also be grown.
5 years should be plenty of time for the hydrogen/lithium miner to pay off his debt If the miner is in trouble he/she should sell his claim or make arrangements to roll over his capital debt.