Don’t let what happened on the Gulf happen on the Atlantic too.
E-mail ggeis@boem.gov and tell the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management you support Alternative C, no seismic exploration and no drilling off our coast. You have until May 30th to make public comment on this proposal.
Tags: climate change, environment, petroleum industry, whales
“As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced that Interior is taking steps to assess the conventional and renewable energy resource potential in the Mid- and South Atlantic. “ Press release from the Department of the Interior
” The Area of Interest (AOI) for this Programmatic EIS includes U.S. Atlantic waters from the mouth
of Delaware Bay to just south of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and from the shoreline (excluding estuaries) to
350 nautical miles (nmi) (648 kilometers [km]) from shore….
The following types of G&G (Geological and Geophysical) activities are included in this Programmatic EIS:
Alternatives
Three alternatives are analyzed in detail in this Programmatic EIS:
Alternatives A and B are identical with respect to the G&G activities that could be conducted and the
expected activity levels during the 2012-2020 period. They differ only with respect to certain mitigation
measures as summarized in the next section. Briefly, Alternative B would expand the time-area closure
for North Atlantic right whales that was developed for Alternative A; add a time-area closure offshore
Brevard County, Florida, to protect nesting sea turtles; require a 40-km (25-mi) separation distance
between concurrent seismic airgun surveys; and require the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) as
part of the seismic airgun survey protocol.
Alternative C is the No Action Alternative required by the regulations implementing NEPA. Under
this alternative, no G&G activities associated with oil and gas exploration would occur in the AOI.
However, permitting and postlease G&G activities for renewable energy development and marine
minerals use would continue to occur on a case-by-case basis.
Several additional alternatives were identified during the scoping
“
Read more here http://www.boem.gov/oil-and-gas-energy-program/GOMR/GandG.aspx
“The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Department of Interior, will hold its first public hearings on seismic mapping of the Atlantic outer continental shelf on April 16, 2012 at 1 pm and 7pm at the Jacksonville Marriott at 4760 Salisbury Road in Jacksonville, Florida. Persons wishing to speak may request to be placed on the speakers’ list may sign up to speak upon arrival or contact Gary D. Goeke at (504) 736–3233 in advance of the meeting.” Sierra Club Florida
Don’t let what happened on the Gulf happen on the Atlantic too.
E-mail ggeis@boem.gov and tell the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management you support Alternative C, no seismic exploration and no drilling off our coast. You have until May 30th to make public comment on this proposal.
Tags: environment, ocean, petroleum, whales
With all of this talk about the Keystone XL pipeline, we should not forget the pipeline which dumps 20-28 million gallons of wastewater into Rice Creek (which feeds into the St. Johns River) every day. T
A few facts about the Georgia Pacific pipeline from Cleanergp.com
• GP is the largest point source of nitrogen pollution in the freshwater section of the St. Johns and the
second largest overall source of wastewater pollution in the river.
• GP’s effluent and settling ponds have polluted Rice Creek. Sediments in the creek contain dioxin,
chlorophenols, and other toxic compounds.
• GP’s permit to discharge wastewater into Rice Creek expired in August 2007. The mill has been violating
water quality standards and discharging without an active permit since that time.
And now they want to dump this directly into the St. Johns River.
Tags: environment, georgia pacific, pollution
Congress Protects Pizza as a Vegetable in School Lunch
“Congress just sent a clear message that protecting industry is more important to them than protecting children’s health. Congress passed an Agriculture spending bill that weakens the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ability to implement strong, common-sense standards for school meals. As a result of industry lobbying, the bill protects the dominant position of pizza and French fries in school lunches.”
http://www.slowfoodfirstcoast.com/
Tags: school lunch, slow food
“Oil pipelines caused billions of dollars in property damage due to leaks, fires and explosions during the past decade. A single spill in 2010 dumped as much as a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River. That track record has Nebraskans nervous, since the pipeline’s route runs through the massive Ogallala Aquifer, and many are concerned about the potential impact of an oil spill on the region’s drinking water.”
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/04/142029366/map-transcanadas-keystone-pipeline
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/05/us-yellowstone-spill-cost-idUSTRE7A403S20111105
Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline “Poses Grave Dangers” to Tribal Nations — National Congress of American Indians
Take Action http://www.tarsandsaction.org/
Tags: environment, indigenous, Native Americans, petroleum, pollution
Bobbie C. Billy, Spiritual Leader and Clan Leader of the Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation, and Dennis Banks, a Traditional Anishinabe Elder, meet for the first time in St. Augustine Florida and discuss their concerns and insights into the current state of environmental and social issues.
Tags: Bobbie C. Billy, Dennis Banks, indigenous, Native Americans
From Commondreams.org
To call this project a horror is serious understatement. The tar sands have wrecked huge parts of Alberta, disrupting ways of life in indigenous communities—First Nations communities in Canada, and tribes along the pipeline route in the U.S. have demanded the destruction cease. The pipeline crosses crucial areas like the Oglalla Aquifer where a spill would be disastrous—and though the pipeline companies insist they are using ‘state of the art’ technologies that should leak only once every 7 years, the precursor pipeline and its pumping stations have leaked a dozen times in the past year. These local impacts alone would be cause enough to block such a plan. But the Keystone Pipeline would also be a fifteen hundred mile fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent, a way to make it easier and faster to trigger the final overheating of our planet, the one place to which we are all indigenous.
Read the full article here
Tags: canada, environment, petroleum industry, pipeline
