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The Beaufort Gazette and the Hilton Head Island Packet October 4, 2016 By Frank Knapp Jr., Special to The Beaufort Gazette and The Island Packet The Obama administration is very close to unleashing an underwater sonic boom attack off our Atlantic Coast, including South Carolina’s. You probably have two immediate questions. What am I talking […]

The Beaufort Gazette October 3, 2016 By Stephen Fastenau Some northern Beaufort County businesses and organizations have joined a new organization of merchants up and down the Atlantic coast opposing off-shore oil exploration. The Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast formed during a meeting in North Myrtle Beach earlier this month. The group’s primary […]

Charleston Post and Courier September 19, 2016 Often business interests and environmentalists are at loggerheads: Development versus conservation. But the two have found common ground on a worthy issue affecting the Atlantic Coast. They oppose seismic testing for offshore oil. Of course, Big Oil is an exception. It wants to test for oil deposits in […]

Hampton Roads Business Journal September 15, 2016 By Nate Delesline III Hampton Roads representatives are part of a newly formed interstate alliance of business owners who are working together to oppose offshore oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. Individual businesses and business organizations from New Jersey to Georgia recently met in South Carolina to develop […]

WPDE-TV (Florence/Myrtle Beach SC) September 13, 2016 By Erin MacPherson Horry County, S.C. (WPDE) — After much debate, offshore drilling was banned off the Atlantic Coast. However, seismic testing was not. Seismic testing can lead to offshore drilling. That’s why thousands of businesses came together Monday to stop this testing before it could even start […]