It will bring jobs !!! hehe Just the opposite I am afraid. If an oil well is permitted in the Gulf, PEI is one slip-up away from a complete and total ecological and economic devastation. Who would come to our sandy, oily beaches ? How bout that lobster fishery ? Just the thought of what could and did happen in the Gulf of Mexico should give us all pause.

Groups concerned about offshore oil and gas drilling left P.E.I. Thursday headed for the Magdalen Islands, where a meeting is being held on a proposed new exploration well in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

"The proposed location is right in the middle of the Laurentian channel and that carries water to the whole Gulf," said Marilyn Clark, a student from Memorial University working to encourage fisheries groups to become engaged in protecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

"So it becomes a national concern to five provinces from that location."

Four Islanders were part of the small group that left Souris for the Magdalen Island.

Islanders concerned about exploratory oil well
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/04/07/pei-...