Not surprisingly San Francisco Bay is home to the largest ocean film festival in the world, one that mixes wonder and warning. But the warnings are growing louder. There’s a documentary on deep sea mining slated for the Pacific with Jason Momoa, another on plastic pollution narrated by actor Tim Robbin, also a film on…
Blue Notes #146 – May 17, 2016 By David Helvarg Contents: Benchley Weekend Hands Across the Sand Oil leaving Arctic Baked Barrier Reef Sea Party 2016 A Busy Blue Weekend This Friday and Saturday mark the 9th annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards and Weekend public forum, dialogues and film-fest at the Monterey Bay…
BLUE NOTES #145 By: David Helvarg Contents: Celebrating this year’s Benchley Heroes… …And an Ocean of Challenges Air Guns Kill Too The Seismic Threat by: Jennifer Magee BP’s Latest Gulf Victims Open Letter to the Candidates One Clam, Two Clams Celebrating this year’s Benchley Heroes… On Friday May 20th we will honor the latest…
The Obama administration held its biggest oil lease sale yet—and then the protesters showed up. By David Helvarg I’ve seen Louisiana and the Gulf devastated and drowned after Katrina, and I’ve seen it in a froth of anger and confusion following the BP blowout and months-long Deepwater oil spill. When I asked one shrimper…
BLUE NOTES #144 By: David Helvarg Great Victory- On to New Orleans! Proposed Atlantic drilling has gone the way of the Keystone Pipeline – a bad idea whose time has passed. President Obama’s decision to cancel his own proposed lease sales for oil and gas along the Southeast Atlantic coast on March 15 was…
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