Florida Gulf Coast Business Coalition
We are delighted to announce that Visit Pensacola and the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce have joined the Florida Gulf Coast Business Coalition growing our coalition to now represent over 6,000 businesses along Florida’s Gulf Coast!
If your business or chamber has yet to join, you can sign up with no fees or obligations here.
Defense is Florida’s fourth largest industry, with a total economic footprint of roughly $78.9 billion. The large area off Florida’s Gulf coast – known as the eastern Gulf of Mexico – has a long history of providing unconstrained access for military training and testing activities that are essential to U.S. national security. Recognizing the importance of this area for national defense training, Congress enacted the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) to protect this section of the Gulf from any offshore oil and gas development in 2006.
For more information on how offshore drilling affects military readiness in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, click here.