Carnival Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line are convicted felons. That’s right. They each pled guilty in Federal Court in Miami to felonies. These included polluting our waters and lying about it to the United States Government in repeated cover ups....
Nancy RubinPublic Relations for Jaxport2301 Talleyrand Avenue, 32206. Dear Nancy:As to your response below: "Also, I would like to clear up an apparent misunderstanding...while JAXPORT employs only 150 people directly, the private businesses which lease...
opinion by diverdan363 | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 73 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"There have been cruise ships dumping offshore of Jacksonville for years", says Tony Orsini, Director of cruise ship and ferry operations for the Jaxport. as reported in the shorelines by drew dixon. Does the cruise ship director know something the general public doesn't...
Regardless of where you live in the state Elected Public officials tend to forget the voters who put them in office in the first place. when an issue that has great public interest as the environment The public officials cater more to the industry and the...
opinion by diverdan363 | 38 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 81 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Once again the public stands to lose more waterfront to cruiseship terminals and lose access to the historial river of the st. johns. In effect Jaxport along with the cruise industry demand a security zone accross...
created by diverdan363 | 39 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 183 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
The Village of Mayport is an historic, quaint fishing village. Scholars believe Jean Ribault landed here in 1562, two years before the establishment of Ft. Caroline which predates both St. Augustine and Jamestown. Mayport has existed as a shrimping and fishing village...
The city's idea and Jaxports balance is obviously very different to that of thousands of signatures collected along with Mayport residents who oppose the cruise terminal development in the village, I like to point out some of the more obvious flaws in their arguement. The...
On a typical day, 15 oceangoing ships arrive at Jacksonville area terminals.At their
berths loading, unloading or waiting for cargo, these ships continue to run some
of their engines, in some cases burning the same extremely high sulfur fuel they
use on the open sea....
While heredity, lifestyle and personal habits determine alot about a person’s health, more and more research reveals that human health is also determined by one’s surrounding environment.
Consider the following facts about air pollution in Jacksonville Florida:
The...
Can we stop our country's historic Village of Mayport from being paved over? The City Council of Jacksonville, Florida, may be about to destroy our nation's FIRST settlement seeking religious freedom, and...
opinion by diverdan363 | 46 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago 522 views | 30 recommendations | 7 comments
In the last decade, cargo tonnage at JAXPORT has increased by more than 40 percent, with more than eight million tons of cargo shipped through the port in 2007, including nearly 800,000 containers (measured in 20...
opinion by diverdan363 | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 122 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments