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Darville: NGOs blindsided by oil drilling approval
Joseph Darville.
In a lengthy affidavit in support of a bid by environmental interests to stop the Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) exploratory drilling set to take place 90 miles off Andros this month, Executive Chairman of the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay Joseph Darville paints a picture of stakeholders being kept in the dark as the government quietly granted approvals to BPL.
A key ground of the legal action filed this week by Waterkeeper Bahamas Ltd. and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay (Save The Bays) against the government is what they described as a lack of consultation, notwithstanding the fact that the groups were invited to a meeting with Environment Minister Romauld Ferreira in 2018. ....

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