Theyre allowing companies to apply for permits to fire off a seismic cannon -- 100,000 times louder than a jet engine -- off the Atlantic coast between Delaware and Florida. This drive to allow companies to survey the Eastern Seaboard for these resources comes largely from Mid-Atlantic states that wish to open up their waters to offshore drilling. Cruickshank said during the BOEM call that Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina have contacted the agency with interest in developing their offshore resources, and this was one of the main reasons this region between Delaware and Florida was studied. Aside from the fact that drilling for fossil fuels in this area will just dump more heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, there may not even be enough oil and gas in the region to justify such a harmful tactic to survey it further. Estimates from the 80s put the Atlantic reserves at just about seven years’ worth of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, and the gas supplies total what the rest of the country produces in 15 months. thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/18/3461738/eastern-seaboard-open-to-oil-drilling-surveys/
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:20:01 +0000
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