SAVE THE DATE Join Lynnhaven River NOW, the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Sierra Club, and Ocean Monday, June 26th at 7:00 pm At the Brock Environmental Center 3663 Marlin Bay Drive, Va. Beach VA 23455 Click here to RSVP With special guests: Jay Ford, Virginia’s Eastern Shorekeeper Mark Swingle, Director of Research & Conservation […]
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Bluffton Today June 22, 2017 Gov. McMaster visits Beaufort County By DEANN KOMANECKY Gov. Henry McMaster paid a visit to Beaufort County on Wednesday to talk business. McMaster was the speaker at a luncheon hosted by the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce. . . . Mare Deckard of Cast Away Fishing Charters asked McMaster about […]
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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 […]
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Alt Daily June 21, 2017 By Laura Wood Habr In March of last year, many of us breathed a collective sigh of relief when the White House removed Virginia’s coastline and the coastline of our southern neighbors from the federal government’s offshore drilling plan. That meant a five year moratorium on any attempt to drill […]
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WTKR-TV June 20, 2017 by Brendan Ponton, VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – City council members voted to formally oppose offshore drilling during on Tuesday night. The resolution passed 8-0 with Councilman John Moss abstaining. Council members Jessica Abbott and Shannon Kane weren’t at the meeting. “Our tourism numbers have gone north in the last eight years,” […]
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WVEC-TV June 20, 2017 By Chenue Her VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) — It was an 8-0 vote by the Virginia Beach city council to strike down offshore drilling off the coast and gas exploration, including seismic testing. Councilwomen Shannon Kane and Jessica Abbott weren’t at the meeting, so neither voted. Councilman John Moss abstained from […]
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Press of Atlantic City June 19, 2017 JACK TOMCZUK Staff Writer AVALON — U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-2nd, called a move by the Trump administration to conduct seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean “barbaric” and “insane” during a press conference Monday. Seismic air guns are used to find gas and oil pockets deep beneath the […]
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SNJ TODAY June 19, 2017 By SNJ Today Staff Video AVALON, N.J. – Local officials, New Jersey State officials, and community members rallied together on Monday, June 19th, to take a stand against offshore drilling. Congressman Frank LoBiondo (R), along with members of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, the New Jersey Tourism Association, and […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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