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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 04:55 AM Mar 2016

Yes!!!!!...........Protesters Take Over Federal Auction of Oil and Gas Leases in the Gulf of Mexico

Protesters opposing new oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico disrupted a federal auction of new offshore leases Wednesday, swarming the New Orleans landmark where the bids were being taken.

The demonstrators rallied outside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, where the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) was auctioning off 45 million acres of Gulf sea floor for new exploration. About half of the crowd, which organizers estimated at more than 200, went inside, chanting "Keep it in the ground," "Don't auction our climate," and "This Gulf is not for profit," said Anne Rolfes, founding director of the environmental group Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

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Valerie Love, a clean energy campaigner for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, said many residents are tired of the Gulf being treated as a "sacrifice zone," an area written off for the sake of profits.

"The Gulf has never seen this kind of massive protest brought to the heart of the auction rooms, where the waters are being sold off to oil and gas companies," Love said. "It's a huge stride forward." She said her organization has attended every federal lease sale so far this year, "And we're going to be at every single one going forward."
https://news.vice.com/article/protesters-take-over-federal-auction-of-oil-and-gas-leases-in-the-gulf-of-mexico?utm_source=vicenewsfb


The Deepwater fiasco is continuing to damage the Gulf Coast, folks have finally got fed up.
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Yes!!!!!...........Protesters Take Over Federal Auction of Oil and Gas Leases in the Gulf of Mexico (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 OP
They're just starting to realise big business does not have their interests at heart. Bad Dog Mar 2016 #1
You have to remember Deepwater hit in the middle of the recession dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 #3
K&R tk2kewl Mar 2016 #2

Bad Dog

(2,025 posts)
1. They're just starting to realise big business does not have their interests at heart.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 07:27 AM
Mar 2016

Took them bloody long enough.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. You have to remember Deepwater hit in the middle of the recession
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 03:36 PM
Mar 2016

and lots of people on the Coast , the ones who are protesting now, are not rich enough to quit their jobs right away.
In fact, they patiently hung in until it was proven a few years later that BP was lying about " We will make it whole again for people".

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