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 [...]
![[Mock] Oil Spill Hits Virginia Beach](http://vasierraclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/WindNotOil2-150x150.jpg)
As the Gulf Coast oil catastrophe quickly grows into one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, Hampton Roads residents rallied in Virginia Beach on Friday to call for a permanent moratorium on offshore drilling and a renewed focus on developing wind farms off Virginia’s coasts instead.
“The Gulf Coast oil spill disaster [...]
Hands Across The Sand is now a national day of action Saturday, June 26! On hundreds of beaches across the U.S., people of all walks of life will be joining hands to draw a line in the sand to say “No” to offshore drilling and “Yes” to clean renewable energy.
The Sierra Club, Surfrider [...]
Gulf Coast communities are facing the challenge of managing the immediate cleanup and recovery needs of area residents, businesses, wildlife and marine life. They will surely need all hands on deck to meet the challenges of the relief effort. Click here to sign up to volunteer as part of the relief efforts and the [...]
Six days after President Obama announced plans to open new areas to offshore drilling, the Feds (Mineral Management Service – MMS) have scheduled seven public hearings on proposed Atlantic geophysical exploration (aka seismic surveys) including a hearing in Norfolk (Hilton Norfolk Airport) on April 29 at 1:00pm and 7:00pm.
Please attend this hearing and speak out [...]
Mark your calendar NOW for Hands Across the Sand on Sat., June 26, 2010 in Virginia Beach! Join the Sierra Club and Surfrider Foundation in drawing a human line in the sand to protest drilling off our Virginia coast.
What exactly is Hands Across the Sand?
The first Hands Across the Sand occurred on [...]
Virginia Offshore Drilling Yields Net Job Loss, Risk to Coastal Economy
NEWS RELEASE: [Virginia Beach, VA] – March 31, 2010
In anticipation of today’s announcement by President Obama regarding expansion of offshore drilling into areas that were previously protected, including drilling off Virginia’s coast, the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter offered the following statements:
“We are deeply disappointed that [...]
On the same day that Governor McDonnell announced that offshore drilling for oil and gas would make Virginia the “Energy Capital of the East Coast,” opponents of drilling handed out monopoly money, labeling the Governor’s press conference a publicity stunt intended to distract the public from the major budget cuts and massive layoffs that McDonnell [...]
Drilling has not occurred off our Atlantic coast for almost 30 years, and thus information on the possible effects of Atlantic drilling “is 30 years out of date,” as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently pointed out.
Revealed at a Department of Interior workshop in Williamsburg in December 2008, large data gaps exist when it comes to [...]
Check out our newest video “Spill, Baby, Spill: Why Offshore Drilling is Wrong for Virginia”. Great work by our renewable energy chairperson, Ivy Main!
Click here to read “Virginia’s Misguided Rush to Drill” as published in the Daily Press, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
Make a donation to the Virginia Chapter Sierra Club today!
