February 15, 2012
Some business owners worry that tourists, drawn to sites like Fort Massachusetts on West Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico, will be put off by industrial drilling activity near the islands. Under a proposed plan, drillers would be able to operate as close as one mile from the islands—and this doesn't please everyone.
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Drilling the Front Lines
Captain Louis Skrmetta is on the front lines. So far, Skrmetta, whose family has operated tour boats between the mainland and Mississippi's barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico since …
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