The Safe Harbor Project, founded in 1996 at Brooklyn Law School, also tackles asylum and battered women's cases.
The harbor project is part of a suite of initiatives aimed at transforming south Barcelona into a green power showcase, partly by using waste in innovative ways.
Mr. Davis said the Baltimore harbor project, which supporters of Adriaen's Landing and similar projects point to as a classic success redevelopment story, failed to help the poorest residents and improved only a few square miles of the city.
But public sentiment against the harbor project has been building ever since barges began lowering huge mechanical jaws into the harbor last month to begin scraping silt off the harbor bottom, while tall pile drivers began pounding long steel pilings into the bottom.
Three years ago, when the architects heard that a Dutch company called SnowWorld, which builds indoor ski facilities, was looking for a site in Barcelona, they pitched the idea of using the harbor project as an eco-friendly way of producing ice and snow.
With dredge material from Mack Point and several harbor maintenance projects scheduled to go to the Rockland disposal site, Maine's transportation commissioner, John Melrose, asked fishermen to consider the economic repercussions of closing the area's only ocean disposal site.
He oversaw riverway and harbor dredging projects intended to improve accessibility and navigation for shipping.
The government sponsored massive shipbuilding and harbor improvement projects, and the construction of beacons and seaport warehouses in order to support maritime trade abroad and the major international seaports, such as Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Xiamen, that were sustaining China's commerce.
The Safe Harbor Energy project was proposed in 2006.
ANDREW WILLNER New York-New Jersey Baykeeper CAROLYN SUMMERS New York-New Jersey Harbor Bight Project.
