This Docket is in support of allowing offshore drilling on both the East and West seaboards by 2024. It is coming from the Trump administration. As the Environmental Justice Club, we feel it is our responsibility to respond to the appearance of this Docket. It has been shown that oil drilling in the ocean causes oil spills, which decimate the wildlife and the surrounding ecosystem(s). To allow oil companies to drill off of all of the coasts will drastically increase chances of oil spills. Also, the bill will kill local tourism revenue, by turning coastal towns into a dead zone. As a club, we are strongly against the approval of this docket. Also being residents in a coastal town makes us feel even more against this Docket because we swim in the ocean frequently and therefore refuse to allow our beautiful ocean to be polluted and destroyed.
Earth day is coming up quickly and we as a club are planning on entering a poster in the Santa Cruz's earth day festival. This year they are having a poster contest with many prizes donated by local Santa Cruz buisnesses. Our poster will about bik ing instead of driving, giving small statistics on the side on the way driving vs. biking when you can helps the environment. We are planning to make and enter it into the earth day festival's poster contest. We will spend the next 2 weeks working on our poster, so we are ready to enter it on April 21st. YAY!!!
Comments
Post a Comment