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June 2012

Rep. Palazzo Calls for Moratorium on Rig Removals

CCA applauds Mississippi congressman’s efforts to halt destruction of marine habitat 

These Gulf of Mexico platforms you see in this short film will soon be blown out of the water with “shape” charges killing everything on and around them and brought to the scrap yard. This senseless destruction must be stopped…

WASHINGTON, DC – At a breakfast briefing hosted by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation this morning, Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) presented the concerns of the recreational angling community over the Department of Interior’s controversial Idle Iron directive and closed by inviting fellow Congressmen to sign onto a letter requesting a moratorium on rig removals. Continue Reading