Contribute to the 12 Miles South Coalition

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The 12 Miles South Coalition is a coast-wide group of business and community leaders who support the limitation of oil and gas production or testing to an area twelve nautical miles south of Mississippi’s barrier islands.

We believe that any oil and gas production or testing within this area would have significant negative impacts on our tourism-based economy, quality of life and environment.

We support the federal government’s purchase of the mineral rights under our islands to preserve into perpetuity our national wilderness areas. Those areas would then be permanently protected from oil and gas drilling or testing and the state would be paid for the mineral rights. Florida is attempting this now as it has been done in other states.

We support creation of an Economic Interest Zone to keep all offshore industrial development from damaging our economic growth, quality of life and environment.

We have scheduled a public leadership summit at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum on Sunday, August 21 at 3:00 PM to show our commitment to this cause. Every citizen who cares about this issue should attend that meeting

We know the value of these islands, and we intend to put an end to this outside threat to our economic security and our way of life once and for all. The Coast must now pull together to save our islands. It will take a lot of our blood, sweat, tears and treasure, but the Coast has always risen to any threat and will rise to this one.

One critical thing we must do can do is raise money to support the activities, the public information and grassroots organizing the Coalition has undertaken.

If you care about our islands and tourism economy, please make a generous donation to the Coalition as soon as possible. We are establishing donor categories in the following amounts. Thank you in advance for your support and consideration.

Guardian - $10,000
Defender - $5,000
Advocate - $1,000
Supporter - $500
Friend - $100
Member – Other