OCEAN CITY — An ongoing effort to derail proposed plans to allow seismic air gun testing off the mid-Atlantic coast and up and down the eastern seaboard from Delaware to Florida continued this week.
With a renewed interest in tapping potential oil and gas reserves just off the mid-Atlantic coast, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), an arm of the Department of the Interior, is considering allowing private energy companies to utilize seismic air gun testing to determine what lies beneath the ocean floor.
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.....is expected to injure and possibly kill 138,500 dolphins and whales along the East Coast, including nine critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which there are only about 500 left in the world."
ReplyDeleteThat's enough for me to say no.
No it will just cause a NATURAL DISASTER AND obama bin laden will call martial law and become dictator of the USA.
ReplyDeleteOr an oil spill.. As long as they can destroy something while doing it.
I am all for drilling domestically for oil but this seismic testing is unnacceptable. The oill companies need to come up with a better method of finding out what is below the surface. They shouldn't be allowed to knowingly injure the sea life.
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