Protect Virginia

Protect Virginia brings awareness to maintaining water quality in Virginia's rivers, estuaries, the Chesapeake Bay, coastal ports and cities to protect resident's quality of life and water dependent industries.

The growth of the large cruise ship industry in Virginia is our primary focus and concern. The scale of these ships is massive leading to impacts in port communities and pollution in Virginia waters.

The Chesapeake Bay, rivers, watersheds, and the air quality in Virginia should be protected by limiting environmental impacts of cruise tourism. This is essential to protect our river and the businesses and sportsmen that depend on it. Long-term environmental effects must always be considered to protect future generations.

Pollution impacts should be carefully examined to protect Virginia's fragile ecosystem. Port communities and neighboring localities that are impacted should have the right to self-determine. In each home port, cruise tourism plans and operations should be collaboratively developed with prior, and informed consent of the people most directly negatively affected by cruise tourism operations and pollution.