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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified to the House Committee on Natural Resources today. Here were his most significant comments regarding offshore oil drilling. Secretary Zinke said that his top priority is generating revenue to help balance his agency’s budget. He said that federal royalties from offshore oil leases have dropped and that increasing federal revenue […]

Yet another dagger has been thrust into the heart of the advocates of drilling for oil in the Atlantic. And none other than by the Wall Street Journal wielded the knife. It its June 16th editorial the WSJ laid to rest the argument that the U.S. must explore for oil in the Atlantic and drill […]

In the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) press release on June 5, 2017, I pointed out that President Trump “should put America’s Atlantic Coast first and not the profits of foreign seismic companies and their multi-national big oil clients.” The Paris-based oil exploration company I singled out was CGG Services. Now Reuters reports that […]

NO seismic airgun blasting Use this easy online form June 6, 2017 The 30-day comment period has started. That means that we are literally only months away from seismic airgun blasting of the Atlantic from Delaware down to Cape Canaveral, FL, if we don’t stop it. Commercial fish and invertebrates, marine mammals and sea turtles […]

My name is Rick Baumann. I have been working in one or more facets of the seafood business for over 50 years. I have seen the changes from the prospective of a harvester, wholesaler, retailer and restaurateur. The company I founded, Murrells Inlet Seafood, is located in the Seafood Capital of South Carolina. The entire […]

Newsletter May 2017 Trump Budget Undercuts Arguments for Atlantic Coast Offshore Drilling President Donald Trump’s FY 2018 budget released this week undercuts two critical arguments made by proponents of offshore drilling for oil and gas in the Atlantic according to the Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC). First, the Trump budget proposes to […]

Yesterday people all along the Atlantic Coast joined together for the 8th annual Hands Across The Sand demonstration against seismic testing and offshore drilling for oil. Here is a fantastic video of the press conference in Myrtle Beach, SC. Citizens, elected officials, businesses and sporting organizations came together to protect the Atlantic Coast form airgun […]

Oceana blog March 2, 2017 By: Allison Guy Bottlenose dolphin populations affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster will take 39 years to recover to their former abundance. That’s one of several sobering conclusions from a recent edition of Endangered Species Research dedicated to the spill. In a series of related reports, researchers revealed that […]

We now have a study on the effect of a 2014 seismic testing survey on fish that use a nearby reef off the North Carolina coast.Ms. Avery Paxton was part of the research team that used microphones and cameras to document the impact. According to a story in the Carteret County News-Times: Ms. Paxton said that noise […]