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:pissed::pissed:My wifes cousin is the charter boat captain in the yellow shirt they compltetly removed his discussion.

http://www.local15tv.com/mostpopular...8fuT40W_Q.cspx

A damn shame!!!!

Thats disgusting!

That's one of them issues cca should be involved in but they to worried about their big banquets and fishing tournaments.

if you go on youtube type in local15 tv they have a longer version they edited a whole lot and no one can find the full version the aired the first nite. looks like someone is getting squeezed already by this video.

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brown fin

W T F

:rolleyes: Really guys?:rotfl:

How many people would actually be a member of CCA without the STAR tournament? The STAR and banquets bring in new members and the banquets RAISE money for the cause, causes just like this. This issue has just recently gone 'viral' and they are probably trying to gain all the facts they can about the situation before taking a stance. Their is so much misinformation going on over the internet that no matter what stance they take, people will get upset with them.

This issue has already ran the gauntlet of placing the blame:

Its the oil companies fault, its the feds fault (especially Obama:grinpimp:)
and now lets blame CCA, and must add that I mentioned Bobby Jindal in there too but that didn't seem to go over well.

One Fact is the Oil Companies have zero to do with it. They follow regs and allocate money to remove a platform when its done.

Don't blame the oil

oil companies can only do what the permit allows. but the oil companies could stand up to the feds and say we are not doing it that way. they can cut the pipe from the inside out without the explosion. i was in new orleans this weekend with the top from all majors and haliburton. they all said they have other ways they can do it, it is just that way is cheaper.

I actually agree with W, the oil companies are doing what they are required to do. And who wouldn't do something the cheapest way that gets the same end result = removal of the platform. There is blame being placed all over the place here and its crazy. There is a program in place for this very thing, its called Rigs to Reefs. Oil companies can donate the platforms for this. This fund has been raided by politicians in our very own state. If this had been the federal gov't that raided this fund there would be 5,000 threads about how Obama is killing all the red snapper inn order to feed crackheads on welfare or something along those lines:rotfl:. Its been headlined in many newspapers, Jindal is kinda in hot water over this, here is a link but there are many morehttp://www.wwltv.com/news/eyewitness...190320191.html

All I was thinking when saying that was I wish the CCA would stand up with the state. I haven't been a member of the CCA since 1996. That organization seems to be more about the $ then the cause.


BROWN FIN

Yeah I heard about that and I saw it on the agenda...hopefully they will be able to stop them from doing it any more. I would think the oil companies would have grounds for a suit since they are misappropriating the funds that were to be used specifically for the rigs to reefs program. An even worse scenario is that they would stop participating in the program altogether.

Agreed.



BROWN FIN

The same explosions can't occur if a sea turtle is spotted. I don't know why they are more worried about one species more than the other. Before they blow the charges they have to fly around the structure for a certian amount of time with turtle watchers in helicopters. If a turtle is spotted they have to wait X amount of time before they can set the charges off. If another turtle is spotted shut down again.

This article was from 2007...

:) Yep, hopefully something will give. I posted a couple links in the other snapper thread and saw there was a job opening for a position dealing with the rigs to reefs program. Maybe the voices have been heard and this program will keep going forward. I thought I read somewhere there was a moratorium on platform removal as of now but I could be crazy

Agree with the red, not sure about the green :grinpimp:

:rotfl:, I am not certified crazy yet:eek::grinpimp:

Snapper vs Sea turtles are no way close


Just because snapper is a game fish people think there is a storage of them???
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Snapper are like ants in the gulf and are more plentiful than almost all species in the Gulf

I live half my life offshore and see maybe 1-3 boats on weekends fishing and 1 out of 5 weekdays (maybe)

You don't see a ton of sea turtles but I have seen a lot over the years




You can not use explosives with in 10 miles of a sea turtle (I think)