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By Allison Marlow
It might as well be the year 1519, the same year that Spanish conquistador Alonzo Alverez de Pineda first sailed into the bay he named Espiritu Santo, the Holy Spirit.
The explorer was the first to map the curves and dips of Mobile Bay and much of the Gulf Coast. He was the first outsider to meet the thousands of animal and plant species that called the area home.
Now, 500 years later, award winning environmental journalist Ben Raines skates in his boat across the top of those same waters of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, pushing the craft’s nose gently into the same hidden crevices that Pineda took care in measuring and charting.
Alabama’s Africatown can tell stories of slavery in ways few others can, officials say
Updated May 05, 2021;
Africatown efforts to tell the story of America’s last slave ship could eventually draw more tourists than Montgomery has been attracting since the Equal Justice Initiative opened a lynching memorial and museum three years ago, the head of the state’s tourism department said Tuesday.
Lee Sentell, director of the Alabama Department of Tourism, said he believes travelers who “love history” are “anxious” to visit the Mobile area and meet the descendants of the slave ship Clotilda and “absorb their remarkable stories.”
Texas can get up to $79 million in BP oil spill restoration money, Mississippi nearly $69 million, and Florida almost $74 million for ecosystem recovery projects and programs approved or extended this week.
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US$302 million in BP oil spill money budgeted to restore ecosystems
In this file photo dated on Nov 12, 2013, a sign at a BP filling station in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. (Photo: AP/Mel Evans)
30 Apr 2021 04:35AM (Updated:
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NEW ORLEANS: Texas can get up to US$79 million in BP oil spill restoration money, Mississippi nearly US$69 million, and Florida almost US$74 million for ecosystem recovery projects and programs approved or extended this week.
Nearly US$80 million more in work crossing state lines is listed among the RESTORE Council s US$302 million worth of projects and programs made public Wednesday as part 2 in a group of proposals that brought US$130 million last year to Louisiana, and US$26.9 million to Alabama.