We need your help to
stop offshore oil drilling.
WWF and other organizations campaigned to
stop an offshore oil drilling platform from being built in that critically endangered population's habitat.
Vice President of Oceana Belize, Audrey Matura, says that the fight continues, but this is one great step in reaching the goal of
stopping offshore oil drilling in the country.
Not exact matches
So - called roadless
oil extraction, in which
oil companies use
offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being
drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to
stop a proposed road project inside the park.
Given that President Obama and other members of his administration have continued to express support for
offshore drilling, provided that additional safeguards are put in place to prevent a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, once the gushing
oil is
stopped there remains a possibility of expanding
offshore drilling once again.
In 2016, Surfrider Foundation and our partners successfully
stopped the federal government's plans for
offshore oil drilling and related seismic blasting off the Atlantic coast (read more).
The Administration and Congress should ban
offshore drilling and
stop putting
oil industry interests above everything else.
Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants,
stopped new
offshore drilling for
oil and gas plus the development of shale
oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.
Yesterday, Greenpeace activists staged a protest to highlight the fact that even now, as federal authorities are helpless to
stop millions of gallons
oil from gushing out of the Gulf of Mexico,
offshore drilling is scheduled to continue in Alaskan
And again the call has been raised to
stop more
offshore oil drilling.