When President Obama announced Dec. 1, 2010 a revised Outer-Continental Shelf (OCS) plan for drilling offshore in parts of the Atlantic, Florida and Alaska, many people no doubt took this as a major victory for ocean protection. However, a troubling part of the plan exists toward the very bottom of the Department of the Interior’s press [...]
It is hard to believe that it’s been just 10 months since the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed an estimated 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the mantra of “Drill Here, Drill Now” can still be heard echoing throughout the halls of Congress. Negligence and lack of oversight by Transocean, BP [...]
With pledges to ‘reign in federal spending,’ the House of Representatives passed a spending bill (H.R.1) last week to continue funding the government through the 2011 fiscal year. This spending bill, which passed largely along party lines, was chock full of amendments to block funding for key environmental safeguards such as clean air, clean water, [...]
In response to a proposed federal natural gas and oil leasing program for the Atlantic, Governor Beverly Perdue of North Carolina created (by executive order) a Scientific Advisory Panel on Offshore Energy in September 2009. The stated purpose of this panel is to evaluate all offshore energy options (wind, tidal, gas, oil, etc.) and develop [...]
On March 31st, 2010 to the shock and amazement of clean energy advocates, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of the Interior would seek to lease offshore areas that were previously protected from oil and natural gas development as part of the new 5-year lease sale plan set to begin in 2012. Less than [...]
Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy launches a new video highlighting the ways that we can drill for clean energy solutions in our region and not for oil. Our video comes out just days after the White House lifted the offshore oil drilling ban put in place in May 2010 as the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil [...]
This blog is a repost from Climate Progress, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. “It is less carbon intensive than oil we find in California,” extraction “really blends in with the natural habitat.” September 19, 2010 Who are you going to believe: Lindsey Graham or your own lyin’ eyes? [...]
This blog was co-authored with Jennifer Rennicks While Gulf communities are busy picking up the pieces that remain of their coastal heritage and natural resources following the BP oil disaster, we learned today that another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has exploded. At 10:30 EST this morning, an explosion occurred at a shallow-water [...]
BP and government officials state that the “static kill” procedure used to stop oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for over 3 months is a tentative success as of Friday, August 6th. On Aug. 5th, crews pumped cement down into the blown-out well in hopes of securing a permanent seal. This seal, however, is [...]
Oceana’s Vision 2020 is the winner of SACE’s Clean Energy Gulf Challenge Today, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy announced the winner of its Clean Energy Gulf Challenge: Oceana’s Vision 2020. It is the best plan—according to expert judges and public voters—for the path to end our nation’s dependence on oil and eliminate the need for oil from [...]