I’m at a bit of a loss as to how to approach the Earth Day theme this year. It has been my tradition to be a bit wry about these “special days” when we gather our attentions together and focus…
What do we do for Earth Day?
Offshore Oil: What happens between the Seismic Surveys and the Oil Spills?
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…
Report from Sacramento
Rallies and demonstrations are a part of the conservation landscape we typically leave to advocacy groups more honed to these activities. But as we are now in extraordinary times – when science is relegated to an “opinion” and lying is…
OCR Comments to Interior’s dreadful OCS proposal
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…
An industry on the ropes
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…
Express Yourself on Offshore Fossil Fuel!
We are in the midst of a public comment period for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) proposal to hand over the entire US Outer Continental Shelf to the oilmen. Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) a managing…
All hell breaks loose…
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…
Report from New Orleans
I’ve just returned from a week-long conference of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in New Orleans. The Acoustical Society has a very broad remit, serving all professionals and academics working with sound and acoustics. This intersects the fields of…
What is a Prayer?
A bit over a month ago one of our supporters offered to sponsor a fundraising event for OCR, which became “Artists Prayer Flags – Offerings for the Ocean.” I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it sounded fun and gave…