My Op-Ed in Today’s Daily Press!
Mixing business with pleasure as I toot my own horn…
The Daily Press in today’s print and online paper has an op-ed penned by yours truly. Check it out!
While I’m at it… mark your calendars for Tues., Feb. 16th for “Oceans Under The Gun: Living Seas or Drilling Seas?”, 7pm, Blocker Auditorium, Virginia Wesleyan College. Speakers: again yours truly with the Sierra Club, JR Tolbert with Environment Virginia, and Dr. Carl Hobbs with Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS).
“Here in Virginia, the focus has been mistakenly aimed at the false promises of revenue from the production of oil and gas offshore,” stated Environment Virginia Advocate J.R. Tolbert. “The debate has largely ignored how essential a healthy ocean is to our coastal economy, and how much we risk ignoring this fact.”
“Sometimes as an aside to their calls to ‘drill baby drill’ comes the condition that drilling be done in an ‘environmentally safe manner.’ But what does that mean exactly?” asked Eileen Levandoski, Sierra Club’s Hampton Roads conservation coordinator.
We’ll go deep sea diving for the answers. So bring your questions!
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February 9th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Nice op ed, Eileen!
The Virginian-Pilot recently had their own editorial on offshore drilling: “Virginia gets nothing in this bargain.”
February 10th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
The Virginia Senate has defeated the bill to earmark “fantasy” offshore drilling revenues.
Previously, Republican Sen. Mark Obenshain withdrew his bill to sell off the ABC stores pending further study.
Gov. McDonnell’s detailed plan to fund transportation and other vital state government services is every bit as delusional as we said it was during the campaign.