Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy launches a new video highlighting the ways that we can drill for clean energy solutions in our region and not for oil. Our video comes out just days after the White House lifted the offshore oil drilling ban put in place in May 2010 as the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil [...]
This blog was co-authored with Jennifer Rennicks While Gulf communities are busy picking up the pieces that remain of their coastal heritage and natural resources following the BP oil disaster, we learned today that another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has exploded. At 10:30 EST this morning, an explosion occurred at a shallow-water [...]
BP and government officials state that the “static kill” procedure used to stop oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for over 3 months is a tentative success as of Friday, August 6th. On Aug. 5th, crews pumped cement down into the blown-out well in hopes of securing a permanent seal. This seal, however, is [...]
This blog post was co-authored by Toni Reale and Jennifer Rennicks On Saturday, June 26th tens of thousands of people gathered at more than 900 locations in 39 countries to be part of an event called Hands Across the Sand. The message was simple, clear and powerful: NO to offshore drilling and YES to a [...]
On summer weekends visitors and residents alike head to beaches across our region to surf, fish, swim and play. One hard reality of the still-ongoing Gulf oil disaster is that at least 100 miles of Gulf coastline cannot welcome people or animals due to the oil and tar balls that continue to wash up on [...]
Guest blog by Linda Young, Director of the Clean Water Network of Florida As I sit here typing, wave after wave of oil is washing ashore in Orange Beach, AL and there is not one skimmer boat in sight. Senator Bill Nelson (FL) has said that the Coast Guard command and control operations are not [...]
Guest Blog by Dr. Enid Sisskin The wait is over. For the last six weeks we’ve waited and wondered when we in Florida would start seeing the physical impacts of the Gulf disaster. In spite of all of our efforts to keep rigs off of Florida’s beaches we see now that no matter how far [...]
This post was co-authored by Seandra Rawls and Marcus Strong, Clean Energy Policy intern for the summer of 2010. The sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the uncontrollable oil leak that resulted is already being called the nation’s worst environmental disaster. For a region already battling poverty and still recovering from Hurricane [...]
Since the Gulf oil disaster began on April 20, the ever-increasing damage to local wildlife, ecosystems and local economies confirms just how deadly our addiction to oil and other dirty fossil fuels has become. In March, SACE critiqued President Obama’s short-sighted plan to lift a 20-year old ban on offshore drilling and then in April [...]
The oil spill has gone from bad to worse as tar balls begin to wash up on the beaches in Key West, Fl. This coupled with satellite images showing the oil spill has entered the loop current. Jeff Masters, May 17th post at Weather Underground shows the images and explains this unfortunate new twist on [...]
