Over the past year Southwest Florida has had to deal with red tide, a harmful algae that has fouled waterways. This bloom has not only severely damaged our marine environment and sea life, but it has ravaged our tourism-based economy with reported lost business from seaside restaurants ranging from 40% to 60%. When you also [...]
At the beginning of 2019 the Florida Congressional Delegation consisting of U.S. Reps. Vern Buchanan, Kathy Castor, Charlie Christ and Francis Rooney, reintroduced the bipartisan Florida Coastal Protection Act, which would make permanent the current moratorium on oil drilling slated to expire in 2022. The moratorium currently in place protects waters up to 235 miles [...]
In January, the Trump Administration announced a plan to open up nearly all federal waters to offshore oil drilling, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico and areas off Florida’s Atlantic coast. This five year plan would open 90 per cent of the nation’s offshore reserves to development by private communities. Opposition in Florida was immediate [...]
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion occurred about 40 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast. It is considered to be the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world and the largest environmental disaster in U. S. history. The explosion killed 11 workers and injured 16 others. It caused the Deepwater [...]
It has been over 30 years since offshore drilling took place for oil and gas on the Atlantic coast of the United States. However, in January 2015, President Obama released a proposal to sell offshore oil and gas leases in federally owned waters. The proposal would allow drilling along the East Coast from northern Virginia [...]
It has been over 30 years since offshore drilling took place for oil and gas on the Atlantic coast of the United States. In 2010, President Obama announced his intention to open the mid-Atlantic and South-Atlantic planning areas to oil and gas exploration. These plans were cancelled in 2010 due to the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]
On July 18th, the Obama administration announced opening the Eastern Seaboard to offshore oil and gas exploration for the first time in decades. This clears the way for an offshore oil boom stretching from Delaware to Florida where billions of barrels of oil are thought to be locked underground. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management [...]
