The Advocate of South Carolina Small Business 1717 Gervais Street • Columbia • SC • 29201 www.scsbc.org • (803) 252-5733 PRESS RELEASE Date: January 15, 2020 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: BREAKING NEWS: SC Senate Takes 1 st Permanent Step Against Offshore Drilling Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO,…
ACTION ALERT!! Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Banning Offshore Oil Exploration and Drilling – January 15
On Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. a SC senate subcommittee will hold a public hearing in room 207 on S.870 that would ban offshore oil exploration and drilling for oil. Please attend or call in support. S.870 prohibits the state and local governments from approving a plan, license, or permit…
Feds ordered to produce additional seismic documents
Charleston Regional Business Journal January 8, 2020 Staff Report A U.S. district judge has ordered the federal government to produce all documents related to its decision to allow seismic blasting tests off the coast of South Carolina, a legal victory for municipalities and environmental groups who are suing to block…
Conservationists win court round against oil drilling offshore SC
Charleston Post and Courier January 7, 2020 By Bo Petersen The federal agencies in charge of approving seismic testing for offshore oil and gas in the Atlantic must show conservationists how they arrived at their permitting decisions, a district court judge in Charleston has ruled. That means staff will have…
Senator files SC bill to stop offshore oil tests, drilling facilities onshore
Charleston Post and Courier December 11, 2019 By Bo Petersen No pipelines, no refineries, no oil tank farms: If the Trump administration goes ahead leasing the South Carolina offshore waters for oil testing and drilling, the state would keep the work from coming into port. That was the point to…
Republican Fervor Ebbs for Offshore Drilling
The Wall Street Journal November 29, 2019 Shift in sentiment waylays Trump administration push for oil drilling off Southeast coast By Timothy Puko and Andrew Duehren CHARLESTON, S.C.—The wake from Chip Campsen’s fishing boat has rippled all the way from the South Carolina coast to the White House. Mr. Campsen…
National parks and offshore oil
In June of 2017, then Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that maintenance and repair revenues for our national parks was woefully inadequate. Zinke blamed a significant drop in federal royalty revenue from offshore oil drilling as the reason. These revenues…
Klobuchar, Yang, Steyer, Castro, Gabbard, Buttigieg Failing Litmus Test
PRESS RELEASE Date: October 7, 2019 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: Klobuchar, Yang, Steyer, Castro, Gabbard, Buttigieg Failing Litmus Test Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Six Democratic presidential candidates asked for Day One commitment Columbia, SC—On October 15th twelve candidates will participate…
Opinion: Opposing offshore drilling should not be conditional
Hilton Head Island Packet October 4, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr. Special to The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette Coastal voters strongly want to protect our shore from offshore oil drilling and the inevitable spills and leaks that would devastate our marine life and coastal tourism, commercial fishing and…
U.S. House passes ban on offshore drilling in the Atlantic. No SC GOP Representative supported the bill
September 12, 2019 The US House passed H.R. 1941 yesterday. The bill was sponsored by South Carolina Representative Joe Cunningham and bans offshore drilling for oil in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Straits of Florida. The bill now goes to the GOP controlled Senate where it will likely die without…