Tag: BOEM

Second field report from Washington DC

Typically, when we hit Washington DC, there is some pending legislation or policy reauthorization taking place. These events are usually timed to coincide with “Capitol Hill Ocean Week” (CHOW) which draws a parade of ocean conservation interests to argue and inform lawmakers and regulators about the attendant issues.

False Flags and Foul Intentions

  Francisco Goya – El Bobilicon from “Los Desperates” 1864 Over the last few weeks the entire world has been staring aghast at our southern border as agents from our Customs and Border Patrol were tearing children away from their…

Noise regulated as a pollutant?

Global Seismic Survey Operations

Just last week a paper was published in Frontiers in Ecology and Environment – and explained in Nature’s International Weekly Journal of Science – proposing that noise pollution – and particularly noise pollution from seismic airgun surveys – be qualified…

BOEM’s eggs are hatching chickens

Back in August of 2014 the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) attempted to mitigate public outrage for a hastily made decision on opening up the US Atlantic continental shelf to seismic surveys by publishing an unsubstantiated puff piece on…