https://capecharleswave.com/2015/02/commentary-eastern-shore-too-special-to-drill-nope/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://capecharleswave.com/2015/02/commentary-eastern-shore-too-special-to-drill-nope/#comment-169659 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:40:44 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=15677#comment-169659 Don’t allow them to railroad us into drilling for oil; we all know what our shore means to all of us. This is going to take EVERY PERSON on this shore to speak up and out. WE ARE SPECIAL. Most times we are quietly working. Just because for years the entire Eastern Shore was not on the map of the United States does not mean we cannot make our voices heard. This is something we need to get together on as a community, before we are tarred and feathered and FORGOTTEN. There is no fixing what we could lose — farmlands, seafood industry, property values, and on and on. WE ARE WORTH MORE THAN THEY KNOW. We cannot just sit back and go along to get along. There is a lot at stake — imagine your beaches covered in oil, dead fish and oysters covered in oil and rotting on your beaches, and fouling the air. Your boats and docks covered in oil. Who says it cannot happen? I don’t know much about accidents in the drilling industry, but I know a priceless, irreplaceable lovely way of life here on the shore, and I do not want it threatened by anything.

]]> https://capecharleswave.com/2015/02/commentary-eastern-shore-too-special-to-drill-nope/#comment-169657 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:54:12 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=15677#comment-169657 We should not touch this priceless piece of land. Our waterways have been at risk due to our own mistakes here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Every day the Chesapeake Bay gets polluted with oils and wastes from boats and small freight ships going up to Baltimore. The aqua life in the bay has changed. I am 22 years old; I have not seen speckled trout in the waters like I did when I was younger. I remember them being so plentiful that you didn’t even have to use bait but rubber worms to get their attention. I fish regularly and I might see two or three a season. I do not want our bay to be opened to more risk than what it is already. Our way of life started with the waters around us. Our families, farms, and our restaurants depend on the water around us. We need to save the bay.

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