This week, Gulf Restoration Network will be at several events throughout Mississippi talking to folks about the importance of protecting Mississippi’s waters from oil and gas drilling. Right now, the Governor and Mississippi Development Authority are moving ahead with plans to allow natural gas rigs in areas where they would be visible from most coastal […]
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BP may be profitable again, but they’ve still got work to do – and money to spend – in the Gulf. Photo of Elmer’s Island, LA on September 26, 2012. BP released its third quarter earnings yesterday, announcing that they netted $5.5 billion in profit! Wow. They also increased the dividend to their shareholders, while
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Helen Rose shows off our new Defend the Gulf tee shirts at Voodoo. Now available at the Defend New Orleans store and website. I just wrapped up one of GRN’s longest and most productive weekends of the year: the Voodoo Experience music & art festival in NOLA’s City Park. We were honored to be the
Gulf sturgeon caught on Pearl River near Jackson before construction of the Ross Barnett Dam. Photo courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Library.Gulf Restoration Network and allies like the Steps Coalition have been raising questions for years about the proposed Port of Gulfport. How will it and associated projects impact nearby communities? The
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GRN photo of spotty sheen at the Macondo well area reported to the Coast Guard in August of 2011. In September of this year, BP reported oil sheen in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in 2010 causing the largest oil disaster in U.S. history. This comes as no surprise to the
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Right now, Governor Bryant’s Go Coast 2020 commission is putting together a plan for how Mississippi will divvy up its share of the billions of dollars in BP fines coming to the Gulf Coast under the RESTORE Act. A bipartisan majority of Congress passed the RESTORE Act so that we could restore the unique and
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Chef Susan Spicer (right) hosts an annual GRN fundraiser at her restaurant Mondo. Pictured here with GRN member, Linda Usdin. On October 14, GRN supporters came out to Mondo in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans to attend the sixth annual fundraising event, Defend Our Coast, Defend Our Culture. Funds raised from the event support
GRN members and staff enjoying the waters of Mississippi’s Leaf River, which is protected by the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act is America’s primary federal law protecting its waters from pollution and an essential tool in protecting healthy waters and wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico region. Many of the victories for the
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BP’s tarballs coat Elmer’s Island, LA -a non-amenity beachGRN and our partners in the environmental community have pointed out BP’s offshore sheen time and again for over a year. It’s ridiculous that yesterday’s announcements from government and BP continue to lack a good answer as to where the oil is coming from, and why it
On August 25th I flew over the sprawling Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery in southern Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. This Southwings sponsored flight piloted by volunteer pilot, Lance Rydberg, allowed me to take aerial photographs of Alliance before the arrival of Hurricane Isaac. The vulnerability of this and other facilities from the potential impending hurricane-force winds and
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