Press Release Southern Environmental Law Center December 15, 2015 Report Details Importance of Existing Coastal Economies Offshore Drilling Would Threaten Charlottesville, VA – A new report reveals how an industry-sponsored report, used by drilling proponents to justify support for offshore drilling off the Southeast coast, overestimates the potential economic benefits of this risky endeavor. It […]
Charleston Post and Courier December 13, 2015 Supporters of offshore drilling generally contend that testing is a harmless first step to determine if there are enough oil and gas reserves to justify ending the moratorium on drilling off the Atlantic coast. But serious questions have been raised about whether the use of repeated seismic blasts
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Charleston Post and Courier December 13, 2015 BY BILLY KEYSERLING Last week I read an op-ed in this paper from retired Adm. William Schachte Jr., a representative from an oil-industry-funded group called Veterans4Energy. While I have huge respect for Adm. Schachte for his service to the country and his knowledge of his career, the op-ed
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Yesterday was an historic day for achieving a sustainable planet for the environment, people and world economies including South Carolina’s. 195 nations came together over 13 days in a Paris suburb to sign a climate accord to reduce carbon emissions that are driving accelerated climate change with the goal of fending off the most dire
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Congratulations to South Carolina Representative Mark Sanford for providing the leadership in Congress to protect our state’s coastal small business tourism economy. Today he and Representative Bobby Scott of Virginia sent a letter signed by 31 members of the House to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). It requested a halt to the permitting and review
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The Greenville News December 5, 2015 By Frank Knapp Jr. “Think of a heart attack as an analogy. You can feel pretty good right up to the point that you die.” That is how University of Nebraska biology professor Daniel Brooks has described his concern about the warming of the world’s atmosphere. At some point
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It’s your turn to weigh-in on the future of the South Carolina coast. Will it continue to be the mecca for tourists that drives our coastal small-business economies? Or will it be oil rigs, refineries and the inevitable oil spills that will pollute our beaches? These two scenarios are largely incompatible. The choice is a
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E&E News November 25, 2015 Geof Koss, E&E reporter Local government officials and business interests are seeing a groundswell of opposition to the Obama administration’s proposal to open parts of the outer continental shelf off the Atlantic Seaboard to oil and gas drilling, and they want everyone inside the Washington, D.C., Beltway to know it.
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It’s your turn to weigh-in on the future of the South Carolina coast. Will it continue to be the mecca for tourists that drives our coastal small-business economies? Or will it be oil rigs, refineries and the inevitable oil spills that will pollute our beaches? These two scenarios are largely incompatible. The choice is a
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By Daniel J. Graeber Nov. 20, 2015 WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) — City officials and business leaders visited Washington, D.C., to pressure the White House to keep Atlantic basins off limits to energy explorers. The U.S. Interior Department in February released a draft proposal for 2017-22 for access to federal waters. Ten leases are planned for the
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