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The New York Times January 4, 2018 By LISA FRIEDMAN WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States waters, it announced Thursday. The plan would give the energy industry broad access to drilling rights in most parts of the outer continental shelf, including Pacific waters […]

NC Policy Watch December 27, 2017 By Lisa Sorg New science about the hazards of seismic air gun testing could waylay plans of four international companies that had planned to explore and drill for oil and gas off the North Carolina coast. As part of its consistency review, the state Division of Coastal Management late […]

Charleston Post and Courier December 23, 2017 Our state senator, Stephen Goldfinch, has gone on record calling the opposition to seismic blasting and offshore drilling a “vocal minority” of “environmental zealots.” So, in the senator’s view, every municipality and county on the South Carolina coast has been coerced by a liberal brand of fanatics who […]

Myrtle Beach Sun News December 22, 2017 I didn’t know that I was an environmental zealot until I read Stephen Goldfinch’s opinion piece in the Sun News. All this time I thought I was opposed to seismic testing and offshore oil and gas drilling for other reasons. (By the way I put drilling for oil […]

Myrtle Beach Sun News December 22, 2017 Where I grew up we had a saying. “If you don’t like the weather, wait three days and it will change.” Our state senator seems to mirror that saying every time he advocates for testing/drilling for oil and gas off of our coast. In one of his most […]

The State December 14, 2017 Columbia, SC As the federal government considers giving permits for oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina, the petroleum industry and its surrogates are working hard to convince the public that seismic testing will not harm whales, dolphins, fish and all other marine animals. […]

Text by NEWS WIRES 2017-12-12 The World Bank will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction from 2019, it announced Tuesday at a climate summit seeking to boost the global economy’s shift to cleaner energy. “The World Bank Group will no longer finance upstream oil and gas, after 2019,” it said in a statement […]

Charleston Post and Courier December 3, 2017   You wouldn’t know it in coastal South Carolina, but some state lawmakers are still open to offshore oil exploration. That needs to change. Testifying before an ad hoc House committee on offshore drilling this week, Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrells Inlet, argued for a statewide referendum to let […]

Charleston Post and Courier November 26, 2017 By Bo Petersen Rare, imperiled right whales will be offshore soon. A few lucky boaters might catch a glimpse of what could be the few left of the species. After an encouraging rebound over the past few decades, the Northern right whales’ calving appears to have taken a […]