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Business owners and citizens launched a torrent of calls to the offices of U.S. Senators yesterday in opposition to two budget resolution amendments scheduled for a vote later in the day. The resolutions offered by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) promoted offshore drilling for oil not just in the Gulf, but also in the Atlantic. Those […]

Should the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approve of seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic, the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) is ready to go to court to stop the destructive process that is the first step to offshore oil drilling. Our pro bono legal services […]

Last night’s explosion of an oil rig platform used for transferring oil in Lake Pontchartrain put at least 5 workers in the hospital in critical condition and one person is still missing as of this writing. It is still unknown if oil leaked into the lake. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. Was […]

Waters off Australia’s southern coast have large reserves of oil according to seismic testing. Yet two Big Oil giants, Chevron and BP, have abandoned plans for deep-water exploration.  And both for the same reason. Last week Chevron announced that low oil prices meant that drilling in these waters, called the Great Australian Bight, would not […]

This week, Congress will begin an end run around the normal regulatory process on determining if offshore drilling will be permitted in the Atlantic.  This bill will negate all the grassroots opposition to testing and drilling. Before tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon sign this letter in opposition to this bill. Fill out the Google form here […]

The Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast and probably every other organization that submitted comments to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) opposing seismic testing for oil in the Atlantic talked about the need to protect the endangered right whale from the airgun blasting. As the story below indicates, this is not an idle […]