Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Home arrow News arrow Conservation & Environment arrow Pingree: No Oil Drilling in Gulf of Maine
Pingree: No Oil Drilling in Gulf of Maine
The 1st District Democrat says she's cosponsored legislation that would ban any oil drilling in the Gulf of Maine.
 

Maine's Congresswoman Chellie Pingree says she'll strongly oppose any effort to open the Gulf of Maine to offshore oil drilling.

The 1st District Democrat says such drilling would put Maine fishing jobs at risk.  "We don't want to see what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico ever happen in the Gulf of Maine," Pingree says in a statement. "An oil spill like that one here in Maine would be devastating to the fishing economy and our environment."

Read the complete story at MPBN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bookmark and Share Print
 

STEVE SCHEIBLAUER: California's “Forage” Fish Protection Strongest in the World, Yet Extremists Still Want to Ban Fishing

Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright.  Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda

More Opinion >