In the heart of the holiday season, I just want to take a minute to say happy holidays and thanks for an incredible year.The GRN staff started off the week with our annual two-day staff retreat, this year out at Tickfaw State Park in Louisiana. Many times over those couple days, I was happily reminded […]
Recent headlines and GRN’s work has underscored that the oil industry continues to abuse the Gulf, and our nation’s energy sacrifice zone shows the true cost of our collective oil addiction.First, the back story: Recent research shows clearly that the act of removing oil and gas deposits from beneath Louisiana’s marsh fueled catastrophic subsidence, playing
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Some of GRN’s best supporters recently received an interactive postcard that gives first-hand experience of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and shows people how they can use their hands to help. Folks at M&C Saatchi, a design firm in Switzerland, created the “We Need More Hands” postcard to raise awareness and
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We’ll show you ours if you show us yours:Restoration Project Priorities for NRDA and the Gulf’s FutureA year and a half into the BP disaster, restoration comes too slow. The Coast Guard has declared the Coast “clean,” Congress has not yet directed BP’s fines to the Gulf, and we rely on the laws written for
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An Oiled Sliver of Marsh, a Vanishing Rookery IslandWith David Peck, GRN went out on a winter recon of Louisiana’s wetlands in exterior Barataria Bay. Louisiana’s Delta is unique on Earth for having a landform created by such a powerful river, the Mississippi, emptying into a gentle sea. (although the biblical Nile, pushing into the
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A View of Okatibbee Reservoir looking northeast towards a portion of the potential mine’s footprint. Flight courtesy of Southwings. On Tuesday December 13th, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s Environmental Permit Board will meet in Jackson to decide whether Mississippi Power Co. (MPCO) and North American Coal Corp (NACC) will receive the necessary permits to
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This blog contains 3 sets of photos. The first two sets are from two new leaks in Breton Sound. The third set is of the leaking Taylor Energy site.Yesterday, thanks to the support of the team at Southwings, I was able to board a Cessna 210 piloted by Skipper Tonsmeier and fly out over the
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Organizations with the Gulf Future Coalition releasedSunshine on the Gulf: The Case for Transparency in Restoration Project Selection today, a report that outlines the need for formal public participation in restoration decision-making and puts forth a framework for evaluating the many proposed early restoration projects that are being decided now.Gulf Coast communities are frustrated by
Get your Kleen Kanteen water bottle when you sign up as a GRN Gulf Sustainer action.healthygulf.org/donateHelp save the Gulf with your online holiday shopping! Buy a stocking stuffer GRN gift membership and also get an “enGULFed” Kleen Kanteen water bottle. And get into Cyber Monday by shopping with these merchants that give a portion of
This is too outrageous to ignore! Last year, in the wake of the BP drilling disaster,President Obama made a promise to the people of the Gulf that his administration would hold BP accountable for the massive amounts of damage the company caused.Well, that promise has been broken.Under an agreement entered into between BP and the
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