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Tell MMS “No Seismic Oil & Gas Exploration Off Our Virginia Coast”

By Admin on May 10, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities

The Federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) has called for seismic surveying to explore for oil and gas along the Atlantic. Seismic testing represents the first step in offshore oil drilling and is extremely dangerous to fish and marine life.

Click here to tell MMS to keep air guns out of sensitive areas to include the treasured landscapes existent off Virginia’s coast. The environmental risks associated with seismic surveys and ultimately with drilling for oil and gas in the Atlantic vastly outweigh any potential benefits.

Our beloved clean Virginia beaches and healthy ocean waters are the backbone of our coastal economy, generating billions of dollars in revenues from tourism, recreation and commercial fishing. A spill, even a fraction the size of the one occurring in the Gulf Coast, as well as the heavy industrial development onshore that accompanies offshore oil and gas drilling, would devastate our coastal economy.

If seismic study moves forward, MMS must promote use of greener alternatives to airguns. There are technologies that can be available for commercial use within 3 to 5 years that would substantially cut the environmental footprint of airguns.

Comment on Atlantic seismic study ends May 17, 2010. Email comments: GGEIS@mms.gov. Mail: MMS, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70123.

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  1. George London says:
    June 12, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    Do *any* of you people understand the BTU calculations between a gallon of regular gas and a gallon of Biodiesel or corn-derived ethanol gas?

    Or, since you’re all atwitter over Wind energy, perhaps you’d like to display the percentage of useful energy generated by wind power vs. the amount of energy needed to run the USA?

    Finally, have none of you understood the function of a aerospike / wind stick rather than the idiotic propellers you insist on using for wind turbines?

    I understand if you have been educated in the US public school system, you’re mostly illiterate…but SOME of you must’ve gone to a college requiring *some* work and thought, yes?

    Please reply…your answers will determine the level of my contribution and involvement..

    GAL