The Americans are watching26 Nov 2020 15:25
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article247399590.html
And exerting pressure on the BAH government.
“Oil exploration is a very dangerous business that poses huge risks to coastal communities in the Bahamas and in Florida,“ said Diane Hoskins, a campaign director for the conservation nonprofit Oceana. “Let’s not forget that Deepwater Horizon was drilling an exploratory well.”
Oceana and several conservation organizations including Waterkeeper Alliance and Bonefish & Tarpon Trust sent a letter to Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis earlier this month opposing the planned drilling.
Among the concerns expressed in the letter, the organizations mention the lack of a cumulative impact analysis, which they say is “a basic component of any Environmental Impact Assessment.”
The organizations say that the EIA for this particular exploratory drilling project “is at times referring to a single exploratory well, and at times a series of three exploratory wells, but it completely fails to show how it relates to a full drilling program that includes production and pumping of oil at multiple locations, as well as storage and transfer of crude oil from producing wells.”
The Bahamas Ministry of Environment and Housing didn’t reply to requests for comments on the issues raised by advocates about the environmental impact assessment of the Perseverance #1 well drilling project.