Post by Logan on Jan 31, 2016 20:51:21 GMT -6
Offshore oil drilling in Atlantic threatens N.J. tourism industry, lawmakers say
ASBURY PARK — Federal lawmakers returned to the Jersey Shore on Sunday to renew a pledge to fight offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.
Gathered on an unusually warm mid-winter afternoon on the Asbury Park boardwalk and flanked by signs that read, "Kill the Drill Today" and "Marine Lives Matter," U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker and U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th) spoke out against the Obama Administration's plans to allow oil drilling off the coast of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
They said offshore oil drilling threatens New Jersey's shore towns and tourism industry.
BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico proved that an entire coastline could be affected by a massive oil spill, Pallone said.
"We know what happens, we saw what happened with BP," he said. "The spill was off of Louisiana, but it went all the way around the east coast of Florida. So if someone says to me, 'Oh, we're going to do it in Virginia, that doesn't impact New Jersey,' that is totally false: It will impact the entire East Coast."
Read more: www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2016/01/offshore_oil_drilling_in_atlantic_threatens_nj_tou.html
ASBURY PARK — Federal lawmakers returned to the Jersey Shore on Sunday to renew a pledge to fight offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.
Gathered on an unusually warm mid-winter afternoon on the Asbury Park boardwalk and flanked by signs that read, "Kill the Drill Today" and "Marine Lives Matter," U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker and U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th) spoke out against the Obama Administration's plans to allow oil drilling off the coast of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
They said offshore oil drilling threatens New Jersey's shore towns and tourism industry.
BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico proved that an entire coastline could be affected by a massive oil spill, Pallone said.
"We know what happens, we saw what happened with BP," he said. "The spill was off of Louisiana, but it went all the way around the east coast of Florida. So if someone says to me, 'Oh, we're going to do it in Virginia, that doesn't impact New Jersey,' that is totally false: It will impact the entire East Coast."
Read more: www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2016/01/offshore_oil_drilling_in_atlantic_threatens_nj_tou.html