BAPAC Admin, Author at Protecting The Atlantic Coast

In final months, Obama charts course for offshore energy in Southeast

January 20, 2017 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Comments Off

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 businesses […]

The truth about seismic testing

January 11, 2017 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Tags: offshore drilling, seismic testing - Comments Off

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 is a political axiom: […]

COMMENTARY: The “scientific” effect of seismic testing is death

January 10, 2017 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Tags: offshore drilling, seismic testing - Comments Off

The Greenville News January 10, 2017 By Frank Knapp Jr., Guest Columnist This past Friday’s announcement by the Obama Administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it was denying all seismic testing permits for oil exploration off the Atlantic Coast brought cheers from the business community, local governments, environmental organizations and citizen groups. The permit […]

Obama administration denies permits for seismic testing along S.C. coast

January 7, 2017 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Comments Off

Charleston Post and Courier January 7, 2017 By Emma Dumain WASHINGTON — South Carolina environmentalists were disappointed last month when President Barack Obama excluded the state’s coastline from protection against offshore drilling. These same activists are now cheering the Obama administration’s denial Friday of six permits to perform seismic airgun testing, all of which would have […]

Seismic testing permits denied by Obama Administration

January 6, 2017 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: Press Releases - Comments Off

Date: January 6, 2017 From: Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) Contact: Frank Knapp, BAPAC Co-Founder and President/CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, 803-252-5733 (O), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Washington, DC—The Obama Administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today denied all permits for oil exploration off the Atlantic Coast. The Business Alliance for Protecting the […]

Business alliance calls on White House to deny offshore oil exploration permits

January 4, 2017 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: Press Releases - Comments Off

For Immediate Release Date: January 4, 2016 From: Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) Contact: Tom Kies, President, Carteret county Chamber of Commerce, 252-726-6350, Tom@nccoastchamber.com Frank Knapp, BAPAC Co-Founder, 803-252-5733 (O), 803-600-6874 (C), fknapp@scsbc.org Washington, DC—The Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) is making one last effort to derail plans for […]

Obama extends ban on Atlantic drilling, including off Virginia coast. What will Trump do?

December 20, 2016 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Comments Off

The Virginia-Pilot December 20, 2016 By Dave Mayfield President Barack Obama on Tuesday put the weight of his waning administration behind banning oil and gas drilling off parts of the East Coast, including Virginia. The question immediately became: What will Donald Trump do? Industry groups are counting on him to reverse Obama’s course soon after […]

Environmentalists balk at Obama’s exclusion of S.C. coastlines from drilling ban

December 20, 2016 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Comments Off

Charleston Post and Courier December 20, 2016 By Emma Dumain WASHINGTON — National environmental groups are heaping praise on President Barack Obama for banning oil and gas drilling in huge swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Some South Carolina environmentalists, however, are fuming. That’s because Obama’s executive order does not include protections for coastlines south […]

President Obama Disappoints Atlantic Coast Businesses. Offshore drilling ban misses most of areas of interest to Big Oil

December 20, 2016 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: Press Releases - Comments Off

Date: December 20, 2016 From: Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) Contact: Frank Knapp, BAPAC Co-Founder, 803-252-5733 (O), 803-600-6874 (c), fknapp@scsbc.org Washington, DC—The over 35,000 businesses and 500,000 commercial fishing families of the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) are disappointed that President Obama has not banned offshore drilling along the […]

Offshore drilling opponents staggered just when they thought they had won

December 18, 2016 - By: BAPAC Admin - In: In The News - Comments Off

Charleston Post and Courier December 18, 2016 By Bo Petersen and Emma Dumain After a massive, decade-long, grassroots fight appeared to have stopped oil and natural gas drilling offshore, its proponents are waging a last-minute desperation campaign to keep the victory from being snatched out from under them. The Obama administration is expected to approve […]

Blog