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Environmental activists and local fishermen will stage a rally today to protest the planned sale of offshore oil drilling rights on George's Bank...
...federal government is scheduled to auction off tracts of George's Bank to oil companies on December 18 unless a federal court blocks the sale...
...protesters are concerned that offshore drilling, without the necessary safety precautions, will endanger the marine environment and destroy one of the world's richest fishing areas. George's Bank supplies 17 per cent of the United State's fish catch and 14 per cent of the world's seafood, Mark Webber, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth, said yesterday...
Peter Dykstra, Greenpeace spokesman, said yesterday the offshore drilling is unnecessary and hazardous because the estaimted amount of oil in George's Bank is low and because there are no environmental safeguards in the proposed plan...
...Scholarship Bank promises that any high school, undergraduate or graduate student will receive at least four times his $35 fee in grants or other...