With the new administration and Congress will come stronger efforts to allow offshore exploration and drilling for oil along the Atlantic Coast. Read and sign this form to lend your business and business organization’s voice in opposition. The threat is real. Join our movement. Click this link. http://bit.ly/2lmHNiK
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Charleston Post and Courier February 17, 2017 BY FRANK KNAPP JR. On Nov. 13, the world’s largest seismic testing ship began surveying the waters off New Zealand for oil. Now over 600 pilot whales have washed onto an isolated stretch of beach. Most have died. Coincidence? First, here is an explanation of seismic testing. Seismic
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The Greenville News February 15, 2017 My opinion editorial, ‘The “scientific” effect of seismic testing is death’ ran in The Greenville News Jan. 10. Seismic testing is the process of large vessels exploring for oil deposits using airgun blasting. One seismic vessel can tow up to 96 airguns that can cover an area 21 times larger
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Lexington County Chronicle February 16, 2017 By Jerry Bellune Regulators are worried by skyrocketing costs and long delays in S.C. Electric & Gas’s nuclear projects. The S.C. Office of Regulatory Staff has been rebuffed in requests to see revised construction plans for the two new nuclear generators in Fairfield County. The project is already two
Charleston Post and Courier February 11, 2017 By John McDermott A few weeks ago, far off the beaten path in the Midlands, one of the largest construction cranes on the planet gently hoisted a 750-ton steam generator into place as part of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station expansion. The heavy lifting isn’t over. In some
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Last month my opinion editorials on the impact of seismic testing for offshore oil ran in the The Greenville News and Statehouse Report. The focus of those pieces was primarily on the harm the exploratory process has on ocean mammals. Now we have a study on the effect of a 2014 seismic testing survey on
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Below is an excerpt from an opinion editorial by Steve Harvey. No, not that Steve Harvey. This Steve Harvey is a friend and lawyer (yes a Philadelphia lawyer) who crafted (with some help from me) a friend of the court brief in support of the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan rule. The amicus brief was
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This week South Carolina got a new governor, Henry McMaster. Here is a link to his video message. Watch the Video Now The video makes it clear that one of Governor McMaster’s priorities is to protect our state’s “amazing natural resources”. His love of our vibrant and healthy coast is clear both from the video
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Southeast Energy News January 20, 2017 By Elizabeth Ouzts In his final days in office, President Obama has both rejected Atlantic Ocean seismic testing – a precursor to drilling – and scheduled lease sales for what could become the Carolinas’ first offshore wind farm, 24 miles from the coast of the Outer Banks. Advocates and
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Statehouse Report January 11, 2017 A National Park Service volunteer examines a beached pilot whale in the Florida Everglades. While the cause of the whale’s death in 2013 was unclear, the photo resembles strandings in New Zealand at the end of 2016. Photo via Wikipedia. By Frank Knapp Jr., special to Statehouse Report | Here
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