"Do note that the Blue whole is a National Monument and it is located in the lower southern portion of Lighthouse Reef (the one that looks like a sickle). Princess Petroleum is the oil company that has this concession area."
"The fact of the matter is, nevertheless, that the movement to stop oil drilling in Belize’s territorial seas was an energetic and emotional movement, and this is an issue which is not only romantic and sentimental where nature is concerned, there are hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Belize’s fishing and tourism industries which have to be skeptical, indeed nervous, about offshore drilling."