NASSAU, BAHAMAS International opposition to Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) oil exploration in The Bahamas continues to mount as several US business leaders are now urging the government to put a stop to offshore oil drilling.
According to the Our Islands, Our Future organization, having just seen the US federal government ban offshore drilling in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, businesses are alarmed at the possibility of new oil drilling allowed as close as 50 miles off Florida’s coast.
According to the group, experts predict a Bahamian oil disaster could impact the Atlantic seaboard and result in severe effects in the neighboring Caribbean Sea.
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Our Islands, Our Future (OIOF), which through the local courts is challenging the legitimacy of Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) right to drill its exploratory well, now has the voices of the business community of South Florida and the US Eastern Seaboard added to the cacophony of calls for oil drilling in The Bahamas to be stopped.
A press statement issued by OIOF yesterday said comments from various business leaders were received after Miami-based marketing company Ballyhoo Media – which has partnered with the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF), Oceana and OIOF – ran floating billboards on Miami Beach calling for support of a petition to get Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis to immediately stop oil drilling in The Bahamas.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS On South Florida beaches, a Florida-based multimedia company has over the past few weeks displayed billboards against Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) planned exploratory oil drilling, according to environmentalist coalition Our Islands, Our Future.
BAHAMAS oil drilling opponents are thanking Ballyhoo Media for its “fantastic” effort to warn South Floridians of the dangers of offshore drilling, set to commence in days just a stone’s throw away from their shores.
Over the past few weeks, Ballyhoo Media, a pioneering water-based multi-media company, hosted large digital billboards reading “Stop oil drilling in The Bahamas” and featuring images of the pristine beauty of the country’s marine environment, as well as the horrors of recent drilling disasters.
The Miami company’s custom-built barges displayed the billboards just off some of South Florida’s busiest beaches, in full view of beachgoers.