reEarth : Environmental issues in The Bahamas

Help out Inagua

Please drop any CLEAN clothing and or bedding items, CANNED OR DRIED FOODS, chain saws generators, extension cords and WATER to the Red Cross Headquaters JFK Drive 323 7370/3

ONLY IF YOU CAN’T get to the Red Cross please drop off to The Sign Man on Shirley. Please ensure that your items are not loose.

Odyssey has donated 3 plane loads of goods to Inagua. Thank you Odyssey!

Odyssey has in excess of 10,000 pounds of relief items to get to Inagua. It is estimated that is about 7 plane loads (they planned for 3 maximum!). They are looking for about $10,000 today to cover the cost of three flights, so they also need cash donations.

Please mark your financial donations

Attention: Billy Holowesko, General Manager, Odyssey Aviation

RE: INAGUA RELEIF

Please ensure that contributions are in a sealed envelope.

Please donate what you can. Sam

For Immediate Release reEarth welcomes the Young Bahamian Marine Scientist (YBMS) Contact: Sam Duncombe sam@reearth.org

Nassau, The Bahamas August 22, 2008 On August 20 a newly formed group, Young Bahamian Marine Scientist wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Hubert A. Ingraham asking him to secure their environmental future by taking first steps to:

• Put a hold on both land and sea dredging involved with the Albany project until there is a full public review because once done, the damage to the beach, coastline and water table is irreversible • Protect all freshwater resources from contamination • Stop immediately the construction of channels, canals and/or construction on or through beaches • Enact appropriate legislation to establish minimum setbacks for construction near the coasts and to prevent the construction of channels and/or structures on or through Bahamian beaches.

And that’s just an appetizer… (more…)

By Pierre Dupuch B.A.,B.Sc., J.P. M.P. (Ret.), former Minister of Agriculture, former Minister of Consumer Welfare and Aviation, The Bahamas money-greed-tiger-woods.pdf

The lens indicated by the red line enclosure is the largest fresh water lens in New Providence

As shown, the lens takes up about a quarter of the island