Oceans Under the Gun: Living Seas or Drilling Seas?
In the heated debate over offshore drilling, policy makers have only addressed “how much”: how much gas and oil, how much tax revenue, and how many new jobs they think it would create. Yet from the standpoint of healthy oceans, they’ve largely ignored the coastal environment and economies that would be subjected to potential harm from new offshore drilling such as off Virginia’s coast.
Sometimes as an aside to their calls to “drill baby drill” comes the condition that drilling be done in an “environmentally safe manner.” But what does that mean? What’s at risk should offshore drilling be expanded to Virginia? What are the risks to our ocean and our Virginia coasts?
Join us as we go deep-sea diving for the answers on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 7pm at Blocker Auditorium, Virginia Wesleyan College, 1584 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk, VA.
Speakers include: Eileen Levandoski, Sierra Club, J.R. Tolbert, Environment Virginia, and Dr. Carl Hobbs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Click here to RSVP. For more info, call Eileen at 757-277-8537.
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