As you may have seen in our newspaper or on our website, CL has previously covered the offshore drilling protests by ‘Hands Across the Sand‘, a growing movement opposing offshore drilling, on the Gulf Coast beaches and at the St. Petersburg Town Hall meeting with Newt Gingrich.
Since those events, an offshore drilling plan has been proposed by the Obama Administration, allowing drilling along the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska. This comes as good news to drilling supporters in favor of becoming less dependent on foreign oil, while, on the other hand, this is exactly what drilling protesters and clean energy supporters feared most.
Since last week’s oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — which is getting worse by the day — there are now political challenges against these plans, the opposing side now being given extra firepower against drilling for oil off our nation’s coasts.
Dave Rauschkolb, founder of Hands Across the Sand, wrote an open letter yesterday (below) regarding the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and how lawmakers have ignored the dangers of drilling.
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 4, 2010.
