NEW: RI Environmental Group Opposes Off Shore Drilling
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Accroding to Environment Rhode Island, a spill like the Deepwater Horizon would cover the entire Rhode Island coastline from the Providence harbor to Block Island, devastate beaches from East Providence to Narragansett, and special places like India Point that Rhode Islanders love.
Environment Rhode Island announce they support the Obama Administration’s announcement that they would take drilling proposals for the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic ‘off the table’ until at least 2017.
Using government data, the report also finds that the annual value of tourism and fishing along the New England coast is 12 times higher than the annual value of any oil or gas that might be found there. “BP’s catastrophe in the Gulf wiped out tens of thousands of commercial fishing, recreational fishing and tourism related jobs in a 600 mile swathe of Gulf coast. A spill off our coast or a nearby state would do the same,” said Anderson.
Rhode Island has more than 100 beaches and the state has many parks and wildlife areas along our shores including Point Judith, Fort Adams, Rocky Point and sensitive marshes along the coast.
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