On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil well spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill lasted from April 2010 through September 19, 2010 and spread up to 68,000 square miles. At the time of the spill, officials in Florida were concerned that the spill would destroy the oysters in Apalachicola Bay. As a result, officials in Florida loosened the restrictions on harvesting of oysters from the Apalachicola Bay. This led to extensive oyster harvesting in the years 2011 and 2012. In the lawsuit, a marine ecologist testified that the average densities in the most heavily harvested oyster beds dropped 78% in the 2011 and 2012 time frame. At the same time, that same ecologist noted that the mean densities in other oyster beds that were not as heavily harvested had increased 3 – 13% during the same time frame.
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I peeked ahead on my calendar and found an entry for May 17 that says: “Paul Hoover Trial Begins.” It turns out the trial has been pushed back – again. This time to Aug. 2, 2021. The wheels of justice are grinding much slower than Paul Hoover ran even on a bad day.
It is yet another devastating delay for the Hoover family. This time it is a discovery delay – witnesses are vacationing.
It happened so fast – in the blink of an eye. We may never know all the details of what happened on May 23, 2017. However, we are certain that Jarvis Strickland blasted over a hill on Springhill Road in his Toyota Camry driving at extreme speeds before plowing into Paul Hoover at a speed of 89 miles per hour ending his life at the age of 66.
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Nearly 150,000 Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes to Be Unleashed in Florida
On 4/28/21 at 8:07 AM EDT
Containers of mosquito larvae seen in July 2020 in Key Largo, Florida. Nearly 150,000 genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the Florida Keys.
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Nearly 150,000 mosquitoes that have been genetically modified by Oxitec, a biotechnology company based in the U.K., will be released across parts of Monroe County s Florida Keys region starting this week.
The release is part of an experiment to help combat a disease-transmitting local mosquito population (the Aedes aegypti mosquito species) that is responsible for virtually all mosquito-borne diseases transmitted to humans such as dengue, Zika and yellow fever, the company says.