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Obama administration denies permits for seismic testing along S.C. coast

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Charleston Post and Courier January 7, 2017 By Emma Dumain WASHINGTON — South Carolina environmentalists were disappointed last month when President Barack Obama excluded the state’s coastline from protection against offshore drilling. These same activists are now cheering the Obama administration’s denial Friday of six permits to perform seismic airgun testing, all of which would have […]

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Seismic testing permits denied by Obama Administration

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Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast 1717 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC  29201, 803-252-5733 For Immediate Release Date:  January 6, 2017 From: Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) Contact: Frank Knapp, BAPAC Co-Founder and President/CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, 803-252-5733 (O), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Seismic testing permits denied by Obama Administration Washington, DC—The

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Contact the White House Before Friday! Say NO to Seismic Testing

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We only have a few more days to protect the Atlantic Coast from destructive exploration for oil, at least for a while. The Obama Administration has up to 6 seismic testing permits sitting in the Department of Interior waiting for approval. From Virginia to Florida this testing process would damage marine life and thus our

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U.S. to open Atlantic, Arctic offshore leases in new drilling plan

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Reuters January 4, 2017 By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday will open up the largest area on record to offshore oil and gas drilling in a new five-year leasing plan, including previously protected parts of the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans, sources familiar with the proposal said.

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Ban seismic testing off S.C. coast

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Charleston Post and Courier, December 25, 2016 The Sumter Item, December 29, 2016 Greenville News, December 30, 2016 By Frank Knapp Jr. This past week President Barack Obama had the opportunity to permanently protect our vibrant tourism, recreation and commercial fishing economies of the entire Atlantic Coast from offshore oil drilling. Disappointingly, he used his

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Editorial: Offshore drilling fight is still on

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Charleston Post and Courier December 23, 2016 Despite a major victory in November, the fight against drilling for oil off South Carolina’s coast isn’t over yet. President Barack Obama used his executive power Tuesday to invoke a rarely used 1953 law to ban oil exploration indefinitely from parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, but

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Obama Bans Future Oil Leases in Much of the Arctic and Atlantic

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CBS News Time The Denver Post US News & World Report December 20, 2016 Kevin Freking / AP HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing. The move

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Obama’s permanent offshore drilling protection in Atlantic doesn’t extend to SC

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Beaufort Gazette December 20, 2016 By Stephen Fastenau President Barack Obama permanently protected part of the Atlantic Ocean from offshore drilling on Tuesday, but the limited scope of the ban miffed longtime drilling opponents in South Carolina. Obama withdrew about 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic from the possibility of drilling — from offshore of

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Obama extends ban on Atlantic drilling, including off Virginia coast. What will Trump do?

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The Virginia-Pilot December 20, 2016 By Dave Mayfield President Barack Obama on Tuesday put the weight of his waning administration behind banning oil and gas drilling off parts of the East Coast, including Virginia. The question immediately became: What will Donald Trump do? Industry groups are counting on him to reverse Obama’s course soon after

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