Hilton Head Island Packet April 22, 2018 By David Lauderdale Beaufort made a big splash on the first Earth Day when kids flushed colored ping-pong balls down toilets, then watched them bob up in the Beaufort River. That was disturbing, but look at the news for Earth Day 2018. Seismic…
Tons of explosives, chemical weapons dumped offshore South Carolina
Charleston Post and Courier April 22, 2018 By Bo Petersen Unexploded bombs, poison gas and barrels of radioactive waste — hundreds of thousands of tons of it — litter the sea bottom off South Carolina. Detonating or setting any of it loose might be the unacknowledged threat from seismic blasts and…
Chemical weapons, radioactive waste dumped in Atlantic. Oil exploration threatens environment, public and local economies.
PRESS RELEASE Date: April 20, 2018 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Billy Keyserling, Mayor, Beaufort, SC 843-592-0400 (c) Jimmy Carroll, Mayor, Isle of Palms, SC 843-452-1200 (c) Columbia, SC—New comments have been submitted to the National Marine Fisheries…
Experts: Seismic testing may release radioactive material from ocean floor
South Strand News April 12, 2018 By Clayton Stairs New fears of releasing toxic and radioactive materials buried in the ocean floor are fueling concerns about the affects of seismic testing for oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean. This is in response to the Trump administration’s new draft…
SC Group Seeks Data on Offshore Dumping
Coastal Review Online April 10, 2018 by Staff Report COLUMBIA, S.C.— The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. Department of Defense seeking information on ammunition dumps in the Atlantic Ocean that contain conventional, chemical and radioactive weapons and…
Business Group Investigates Radioactive Weapon Dumps
Inside Sources April 9, 2018 by Connor D. Wolf The U.S. Department of Defense was asked by a business group Monday to reveal the locations of chemical and radioactive dump sites in the Atlantic. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) is seeking information regarding munition dumps that allegedly…
Knapp to Lead Effort To Stop Seismic Testing
Coastal Review Online April 6, 2018 by Staff Report COLUMBIA, S.C.— The former president and CEO of the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast is now focusing all his attention at the helm of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, or SCSBCC, on a potential lawsuit to…
Greenville council delays vote on offshore drilling opposition
The Greenville News March 27, 2018 By Eric Connor The city of Greenville will take more time to consider to what degree it should oppose offshore drilling activities off the state’s coastline. The City Council was poised to pass a resolution Monday night opposing drilling, which would have made Greenville…
Hike: Fed raises interest rates for businesses and consumers
MultiBriefs Exclusive March 23, 2018 By Seth Sandronsky As the economy grows and a low jobless rate of 4.1 percent continued for a fifth straight month, the Federal Reserve Bank under Chairman Jerome Powell took action March 21. In a statement, the U.S. central bank announced that it will “raise…
SCANA shareholders received $529 million in dividends from failed nuclear project
Post and Courier March 22, 2018 By Thad Moore SCANA Corp. has paid out more than half a billion dollars to investors with money collected from electric customers for its failed nuclear project, according to documents published by state regulators this week. Last year alone, money earmarked for the V.C.…