While the plan to set the seismic survey industry loose on the Mid Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) has only seemed like a three-alarm fire for just the last few years, this plan was first hatched over ten years ago…
As we are closing in on the Outer Continental Shelf leasing program comment period, it appears as if the oilmen are running into a few snags. The first, of course, was Secretary Ryan Zinke’s arbitrary (and out-of-process) exemption of Florida…
Any US Citizen living within driving distance of the coast is likely aware of the fact that Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) is proposing that 90% of the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) be…
It’s hard to determine from where I sit where we’ll end up after the current aggressive disruption of our Federal Government, but it is quite clear that we have had a coup – by an industry that has lots of…
As anticipated, Department of Interior’s capo Ryan Zinke announced yesterday that they plan on opening up the entire US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to Oil and Gas leasing. This is despite hundreds of thousands of voices speaking up against this…
A pretty tumultuous week has thwarted my plans of digging into the Barcelona Animal Communications Symposium. In the wake of senseless attacks on tourists on the Barcelona Ramblas, the importance of scientific inquiry pales. We can only hold the victims…
I spent all last week at an animal communications conference in Omaha and wanted to detail that in this week’s newsletter. But it was brought to my attention that our last newsletter needed some tidying up first. The newsletter topic…
Under the rubric “If it ain’t broke, smash it!” of the current Administration, we’ve been busy the last two weeks reviewing and filing public comments on some items that fell out of Executive Order 13975 (EO) which seeks to clear…
I typically eschew technical excavations in our newsletter, but seismic surveys are an important tent-stake in the ocean noise discussion, so I offer the following three-minute read in hopes that you find it informative and entertaining (if not a bit…
If it wasn’t otherwise abundantly clear, the splurge of Executive Orders (EO) over the last two weeks confirm that the US President has handed the reins (or should I say “handed the reign”) of the executive branch over to the…