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More Dead Dolphins – Feds NOT forwarding Tissue Samples – Video

9 April 2011

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More Dead Dolphins – Feds NOT forwarding Tissue Samples – Video

So if you were trying to get to the bottom of a mystery, and you had paid tons of legit scientisits to collect evidence for you, would you send it to the lab? Of course you would. But the Federal government on the other hand . . . .

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Scientists Betray Florida!

25 March 2011

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Scientists Betray Florida!

Instead of studying how to stop red tide, prevent red tide or even what causes it, the scientists have spent the $16 million we gave them to do so on making a drug to bring to market. It get's even worse. We've now discovered they've been secretly suing manatees as test subjects for this drug at the behest of a drug company.

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Bay scallop season to open 12 days early?

1 December 2010

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Bay scallop season to open 12 days early?

Even though it’s obvious our bay scallop populations come back is in deep trouble (read our article on the last bay scallop count), Charlie Crist has decided to help businesses by opening scallop season 12 days earlier than usual. Here’s his statement on the action: “Several people and businesses in Northwest Florida and Big Bend [...]

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Letting the Suspects Gather the Evidence

8 August 2010

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At the risk of becoming the Oil Spill news web site instead of the Red Tide Florida Web site, I have to throw one more quick article up about the BP Oil Leak.  There is a criminal investigation going on against Haliburton (recognize that name?) , Transocean, Cameron International and British Petroleum for what has [...]

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Government Allows Increase in Dispersant Use

3 July 2010

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The whole time the EPS has been implying to the public that they have “cracked down” successfully on the massive amount of dispersant use by BP in the gulf of Mexico, it apparently made the rules to allows almost as much dispersant use as BP wants. The EPA has set up a ridiculous formula for [...]

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Red Tide in Maine Forecast is Grim

27 February 2010

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NOAA has been using some new technologies to predict future red tides. Off the coast of Maine, it appears that they will have the worst red tide ever this summer. New Hampshire is included in this gloomy forecast. The projection is based on a sea-floor survey of the seed-like cysts of Alexandrium fundyense, (which is [...]

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