Gulf of Mexico - Drain the Oceans

Rally against red tide in Tampa

Fishing For Grouper And Red Snapper And Partying In Tampa

The State of the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico Fracking Dump

Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law. more

Millions of barrels of oil flowing into the Gulf Of Mexico

An oil spill that has been quietly leaking Millions of barrels into the Gulf Of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history. HERE

Florida Tourist Beware

Florida INC. has destroyed our east coast and the Frackers are destroying the Gulf. 

Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells Dump Billions of Gallons of Oil Waste Into Gulf. here

A Major Oil Leak Has Polluted the Gulf of Mexico for Over 11 Years

Hold Taylor Energy Accountable!

Don't Go In The Water In Florida

Zachary Motal lost his foot and 
part of his lower leg.

Doctors say it was caused by flesh-eating bacteria that he contacted during a day at Fort Myers Beach. here

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Kills Beachgoer In Sarasota

Tourist Beware, Flesh-Eating Bacteria in Florida Waters

Health officials in Florida 

issued new warnings about high levels of a flesh-eating bacterium in the ocean and other recreational waters in the state. here

Florida doesn't typically require beach shutdowns for bacteria infestations; in fact, 59 percent of its beaches aren't tested for bacteria levels; the others rely on federal funding to carry out periodic tests. But hey, only the strong survive in
 Rick Scott's Florida!

Florida. Please Vote yes on Amendment 1

Stop Oil Drilling In The Florida Straits

Black Horizon 

Millions of gallons of oil are spewing from a hole in the ocean floor after a deadly explosion aboard a massive rig. The rig was in Cuban waters, just sixty miles from Key West, and the biggest man made environmental catastrophe in history is headed not toward Havana, but straight for the U.S. coastline. here

 The Cuban navy threatens to fire upon American cleanup equipment as “hostile invaders

A Cuban Oil Disaster And The Florida Keys

The scenario is fiction, but the high-level attention it is drawing to a looming Florida threat is real. “The Florida keys awash in Cuban crude. here 

800,000 Bird Deaths in BP Gulf Disaster

Study to be released this summer by the 

Marine Ecology Progress Series 

indicates as high as 800,000......here

Pic, National Geographic Society 

South Shore Coastal Restoration At Work

Ruskin

The Gulf Belongs To All Of Us

 It always has and it always should.

Fresh, local seafood is important to our economy,

 our heritage and our way of life along the Gulf.

Let’s keep it that way.

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The Gulf Coast, Four Years After The BP Disaster

900: Bottlenose dolphins found dead or stranded

500: Sea Turtles found dead or stranded 

20 percent: Portion of the Gulf’s bluefin tuna exposed 

778 miles: Amount of coastline BP says it cleaned before ending
“active cleanup”

$14 billion: Amount BP says it spent on spill response and cleanup activities

$12.9 billion: Amount BP says it paid in claims, advances, civil settlements, and payments for tourism promotion, seafood testing, marketing,
and health services

$23 billion: BP’s profits in 201

$105 million: Amount BP paid under a partial settlement for the oil spill to fund new healthcare centers and services for the Gulf

17 months: Time period BP was banned from all federal contracts

Two weeks: Length of time after that suspension was lifted before BP

had another oil spill

Five: Number of rigs BP had in the Gulf of Mexico before the spill

10: Number of oil rigs BP currently has in the Gulf

1.3 million: Barrels of oil produced daily in the U.S. Gulf in 2011

2 million: Barrels of oil expected to come from the U.S. Gulf daily by 2020

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Fight for Gulf Dolphins Against BP Lies
Tell BP to finish cleaning up the Gulf

Happy Earth Day

Poisoned Gulf Killing Our Whales

Authorities said eight pilot whales have died in shallow waters off Florida's southwest coast. Six others remain unaccounted for. In December, more than 50 pilot whales stranded in Everglades National Park. Several died.......more
Update: 25 Dead Whales Found Near Kice Island, Florida...more>

Pilot whales live in deep water and swim inland if they suffer from toxicity or disease.

Dolphins Dying In Gulf From BP Oil Spill

A study backed by the federal government and paid for by BP shows that dolphins in some of the worst hit areas by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 are suffering from lung disease and other abnormalities consistent with toxic exposure to oil.......more>

Cubans, Spaniards and the Chinese

Are preparing to put a very controversial hole deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
Deeper than the blown-out well that spewed 5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf last summer.
It will puncture the sea floor in Cuban-controlled waters just
60 miles off the Florida Keys,
a protected coastline where offshore drilling is banned under U.S. law.
here

John Pennekamp State Park
Fidel and Raul you guys own a tropical island, Go Green!