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Date:                November 14, 2016 From:              Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast Contact:          Frank Knapp, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, 803-252-5733 (O),  803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Over 12,000 businesses seek protection for local coastal economies Washington, DC—A delegation from the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) meet today with Administration officials who will […]

Southeast Energy News November 11, 2016 BY  Elizabeth Ouzts In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, coastal advocates and businesses are wasting no time in their quest for a permanent ban on offshore drilling along the Eastern Seaboard. Members of a newly formed alliance representing more than 12,000 businesses along the Atlantic Coast will travel to the District

Charleston Post & Courier October 28, 2016 By Bo Petersen  Nearly a half million commercial fishing families have joined the opposition to seismic testing for oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a South Carolina-based business chamber. Meanwhile, a first, non-seismic survey is set to start. The families, numbering more than 400,000,

Business Leaders Unite in Opposing Seismic Airgun Testing along the Atlantic Coast Date:                October 27, 2016 From:              Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast Contact:          Frank Knapp, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, 803-252-5733 (O),  803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org From Maine to Florida—thousands of business interests ask President Obama to protect the Atlantic Ocean from

Myrtle Beach Sun News Letter to the Editor October 27, 2016 Sandra Bundy, Murrells Inlet All of us who live, work and own businesses along the Atlantic seaboard should be very concerned about the federal government permitting seismic testing for oil off the Atlantic coast. Not only will this eventually lead to offshore drilling, which

The Beaufort Gazette and the Hilton Head Island Packet October 4, 2016 By Frank Knapp Jr., Special to The Beaufort Gazette and The Island Packet The Obama administration is very close to unleashing an underwater sonic boom attack off our Atlantic Coast, including South Carolina’s. You probably have two immediate questions. What am I talking

The Beaufort Gazette October 3, 2016 By Stephen Fastenau Some northern Beaufort County businesses and organizations have joined a new organization of merchants up and down the Atlantic coast opposing off-shore oil exploration. The Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast formed during a meeting in North Myrtle Beach earlier this month. The group’s primary

Charleston Post and Courier September 19, 2016 Often business interests and environmentalists are at loggerheads: Development versus conservation. But the two have found common ground on a worthy issue affecting the Atlantic Coast. They oppose seismic testing for offshore oil. Of course, Big Oil is an exception. It wants to test for oil deposits in

Hampton Roads Business Journal September 15, 2016 By Nate Delesline III Hampton Roads representatives are part of a newly formed interstate alliance of business owners who are working together to oppose offshore oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. Individual businesses and business organizations from New Jersey to Georgia recently met in South Carolina to develop

WPDE-TV (Florence/Myrtle Beach SC) September 13, 2016 By Erin MacPherson Horry County, S.C. (WPDE) — After much debate, offshore drilling was banned off the Atlantic Coast. However, seismic testing was not. Seismic testing can lead to offshore drilling. That’s why thousands of businesses came together Monday to stop this testing before it could even start