Florida activists call for an end to new oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico

Share
BP drilling explosion in Gulf of Mexico
Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, photo by US Coast Guard.

On Tuesday Café we heard about opposition to fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The audio is from an online conference call in late May hosted by the nonprofit Oceana.

Oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

Several groups are calling for an end to new oil and gas leases in the Gulf.

We heard from Congress member Kathy Castor, who is Chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

Listen to the show here:

Dr. Sarah Giltz, a marine scientist with Oceana, spoke about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and its impacts.

Aliki Moncrief the executive director with FCV, Florida Conservation Voters, spoke about Florida’s Amendment 9. It passed a few years ago and banned offshore drilling in state waters.

We also heard from Susan Glickman with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Getulio Gonzalez-Mulattieri, a community organizer with Chispa Florida and Colette Pichon-Battle with the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy.

Mary Glenney

Also on the show WMNF announced that long-time programmer, Mary Glenney, passed away on Monday. She retired from the show From a Woman’s Point of View in June 2021.

WMNF’s Tuesday Café is hosted by Seán Kinane every Tuesday at 10:06 a.m. on 88.5 FM in Tampa Bay & wmnf.org.

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

Environmental advocates call for more electric school buses in Pinellas

Listen: Environmentalists in Pinellas County are calling for a renewed...

Florida Capitol
Ten big issues in the 2025 Florida legislative session

They still have to hammer out a budget, but Florida...

The Scoop: Mon. May 5, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Roundup of news headlines produced for WMNF Community Radio: Trump,...

UF higher education university
The U of Michigan leader Santa Ono is the sole pick for the president of the University of Florida

Santa Ono, who leads the University of Michigan, is the...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

The Morning Show Tuesday
The Morning Show Tuesday