Conservation & Environment
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Maine Voices: Senate has chance to help two gulfs |
| BUCKSPORT — The Gulf of Maine has a golden opportunity for extensive revitalization coming as Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins return to Washington. About $990 million will be available to resurrect our legendary coastal fisheries and environmental richness. | |||
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Barnegat Light joins program that recycles old fishing gear |
| BARNEGAT LIGHT - August 30, 2010 - The tales fishermen tell on the dock aren't always about the big one that got away. Some are about the many old nets, crab traps and ropes they haul in with the day's catch. | |||
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About Oceana's research vessel the Latitude |
| As you know, Oceana is in the midst of an eight-week expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. They wanted to tell you about our ship, the Oceana Latitude. The Latitude is an impressive vessel that has been used by its owner for fishing on the high seas. It is a nice cruise boat that we have turned into a research vessel to support our scientific expedition to find out more about the effects of the oil spill. We thank the owner greatly, who has given us the boat at cost to make our work possible in the Gulf. It made the Latitude the cheapest boat available for our two-month expedition. | |||
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Scientists Split On Gulf Oil Estimates |
| Scientists are squabbling with the government about what happened to the estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP well before the well was capped. | |||
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Who does it benefit to call the Gulf oil spill cleaned up, if it is not? |
| On August 4, Carol Browner, special adviser to the president for energy and climate change, appeared on NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s The Early Show to announce that 75 percent of the oil in the Gulf from the BP spill was gone. | |||
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BOSTON HERALD: Fishing for help
It shouldn’t be the Wild West out there on the high seas, but as one sign in the flotilla said, “Fishing families are working families.” That is a message Obama and his underlings should remember.
