Referendum Says No to Belize Offshore Oil Exploration

Yesterday was a busy day for the Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage 
as they held the People’s Referendum, as a way to give a voice to many 
who were silenced when signatures were rejected from a petition to host a
 national referendum. People came out by the numbers to vote and the 
results were released today at a press conference in the front yard of 
the OCEANA Belize office. Ninety six percent of the twenty nine thousand
 two hundred and thirty five voters came out, voted no to offshore oil 
drilling while the remaining four percent voted yes.

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