True to the chants of Oceana’s campaign song, “We noh want no offshore drilling…,” a total of 28,208 registered Belize voters or 96% of electors who participated in The People’s Referendum on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, on the question: “Should there be oil exploration and drilling in offshore Belize?” said a resounding NO!, in line with the results of polls conducted by Belizean researcher Yasmine Andrews for the Coalition.
“The general conclusion is, Belizeans really do not want any offshore drilling. Now you can’t get any clearer than that,” said Andrews, pointing to the results of both the polls and the nationwide referendum.
She said the February 29 referendum results were in line with the results of two polls she recently conducted on the same question: one based on 4,000 respondents from the petition for an official referendum (which Government said could not be held because of 8,000 rejected signatures) and another involving 4,000 respondents from the wider population to compare the results of the first poll.
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