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With offshore drilling for oil on the ropes after the economically devastating 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, in 2011 the oil industry formed, bankrolled and ran the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition (OCSG) to defend the industry and lobby for more drilling.  The original 4 members were Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Texas governor Rick Perry, Mississippi […]

Another state attorney has weighed in to oppose seismic airgun blasting permits for the Atlantic. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring submitted his official comment to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) yesterday. This brings to 10 the number of AGs bringing the authority of their offices to the massive and growing opposition to seismic airgun […]

All parties involved in the fight over the Trump administration considering permits for seismic airgun blasting expected that lawsuits would fly if those permits for oil exploration in the Atlantic were granted. The Business Alliance for Protecting the Atlantic Coast and numbers of environmental groups like the Natural Resource Defense Council and Oceana had made […]

BAPAC has made it very clear that we will legally oppose any permits issued for seismic testing if only because it would be a political decision not one based on science and facts (as the decision was based upon in January).  Joel Clement’s experience (below) clearly demonstrates Interior’s willingness to block scientific decisions and to use […]

This week Mr. James Barton officially warned the National Marine Fisheries Service that indiscriminate seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic will potentially lead to the release of chemicals from munition dump sites.  The threat to humans and dolphins is serious. Now the stakes are raised to a nuclear concern. Below is an NPR story from […]

(Comments submitted by James Barton to the National Marine Fisheries Service in regard to seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic.) 18 July, 2017 Modern seismic airguns used to detect off shore natural resources miles below the sea bed have ample power to disrupt severely corroded yet otherwise stable concentrations of sea dumped munitions, thereby inviting […]

Last week Shelly Island off the North Carolina coast was evacuated by authorities due to what appeared to be an unexploded, heavily marine-corroded military ordinance—that’s a bomb to us non-military folks. After a long day of concern, according to TV station WRAL Navy explosive experts determined that the object was fortunately a training ordinance from […]