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Bahamian Environmental Groups seek an extension of the public consultation process for Disney’s draft EIA for the Lighthouse Point project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On March 26th, the partners of the Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign wrote to the Bahamian Minister of the Environment requesting...
Bahamian Environmental Groups to conduct a thorough review of Disney’s EIA
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Bahamian environmental groups question whether a cruise port at Lighthouse Point is a good deal for Eleuthera and The Bahamas The Bahamian environmental...
Jordan River Waterkeeper Takes to the Virtual World
- By: Jordan River Waterkeeper
- News
By Gidon Bromberg, the Jordan River Waterkeeper – Israel, and Co-founder and 25-year Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East Having a boat to navigate,...
Environmental groups call Disney’s Lighthouse Point EIA litmus test of its new 2030 Sustainability Goals
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On February 9, Bahamian and international environmental groups with the Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign sent a letter to...
After Drilling Bust Off The Bahamas, Groups Call for Permanent Ban
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Despite BPC Oil Drilling Failure, Danger from Offshore Drilling Persists The Bahamas Have Dodged a Bullet, Environmental Leaders Say After facing months...
Environmentalists Request Update on Disney’s Project at Lighthouse Point
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On December 14th, the Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign partners sent a letter to the Bahamian Minister of the Environment and Housing and the...
Environmentalists Seek Timeline for Disney’s Lighthouse Point Environmental Assessment
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On October 27, 2020, the Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign released a letter to the Bahamian Minister of the Environment and Housing and Dr. Penning,...
New Life for Hann Bay
- By: Tom Quinn
- Clean Water Defense | News
Senegal’s Hann Bay was once a sparkling jewel with white sand beaches that ran from the industrial port of Dakar about eight miles to the outskirts of...
Environmentalists Urge Prime Government of The Bahamas to Consider Fully their Revised Draft 2020 EIA Regulations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On October 9th, Waterkeepers Bahamas, reEarth, BREEF, Save the Bays, and Waterkeeper Alliance sent an open letter to Prime Minister Minnis requesting that...
Protect The Bahamas — Say No to Offshore Oil Drilling
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) is planning to open the pristine waters of The Bahamas to offshore oil drilling, exposing the small island nation and...
Disney Downgraded by Friends of the Earth Due to Proposed Lighthouse Point Project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Every year, Friends of the Earth (FoE), a major American environmental group, issues an environmental report card for all of the major cruise lines. While...
Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Challenges Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, and Environmental Injustice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Challenges Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, and Environmental Injustice in its...
In it for the Long Haul: Saluting Waterkeeper Heroes
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
In a world where so much seems to be measured in dollars and cents, (or Euros or Kenyan Shillings or Peruvian Sols), we quantify our work differently. ...
The Yarra: A Journey Towards Ecological Restoration
- By: Yarra Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper A federal grant was recently awarded to the Yarra Riverkeeper Association to begin the process of rewilding the Yarra...
Announcing our 2020 Terry Backer Award Winners
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Terry Backer, the first Long Island Soundkeeper, was — and remains — one of our movement’s most iconic activists: Spirited, determined, charismatic,...
Thank Congress for standing up to Big Oil!
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In late April, sixteen Members of Congress joined together to take a stand against Big Oil and proposed offshore drilling in the waters of The Bahamas,...
COVID-19 shows how reckless Jordan Valley annexation would be
- By: Jordan River Waterkeeper
- News
The extensive cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian health professionals would halt if an annexation policy were advanced in the midst of this health...
Listen to the Past: Don’t Drill Paradise
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. This week marks the 10th Anniversary...
Waterkeepers Offer Hope, Diversion, Grocery Pickups
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
When pandemic headlines read, “The Sky is Falling,” it seems like an awkward time to remind your supporters of the work you do, and the ways they can...
For Time Indoors | More Waterkeeper Content!
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Waterkeeper Documentaries for Time Indoors
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Our Work Continues
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, Waterkeeper Alliance is making plans to continue our important mission-driven work, strengthening and supporting...
A fire that lit up the world
- By: Yarra Riverkeeper
- News
By Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper Australia is in the midst of a devastating summer of bushfires, which followed years of record-breaking heat and drought....
On the Front Lines: Voices of Lake Victoria
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Africa’s Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world after North America’s Lake Superior, is in danger. Rapid industrialization...
Plastic Pollution is a Global Problem for Waterways
- By: Pete Nichols
- Clean Water Defense | News
A new Waterkeeper Alliance project will unite plastic pollution measurement, categorization, and localized prevention strategies at an unprecedented global...
What Keeps Me in the Work
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The Waterkeeper Alliance International Summit in Kenya last November brought together 41 front-line workers from the Waterkeeper movement. They traveled...
Hope for the Nairobi River
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers from 16 countries and four continents gathered in Nairobi in November to learn from each other and presenters including the acting director...
Scientists Accept Disney Offer to Discuss Concerns about Lighthouse Point and Call for attention to Climate Change and Marine Protected Area
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Scientists and experts with extensive experience with Bahamian marine environments have sent a letter to a top Disney official accepting his offer to discuss...
24 Scientists, Experts Oppose Disney’s Proposed Cruise Ship Port at Lighthouse Point on Eleuthera, The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
The “Last Chance for Lighthouse Point” campaign today released a letter from twenty-four independent scientists and experts, setting out the technical...
Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign announces relaunch six weeks after Hurricane Dorian
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On July 15, 2019, five leading Bahamian environmental groups — the Bahamas Reef Environment Education Foundation, Save the Bays, ReEarth, EARTHCARE,...