NMFS received an application from Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell) for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to offshore exploration drilling on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to issue an IHA to Shell to take, by Level B harassment only, eight species of marine mammals during the specified activity.
NMFS received an application from Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell) for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to offshore exploration drilling on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to issue an IHA to Shell to take, by Level B harassment only, 12 species of marine mammals during the specified activity.
Now that the state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued recommendations that could lead to widespread use of a controversial method of natural gas called hydraulic fracturing, we join with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D- Manhattan, in issuing a cautionary note. Silver called the idea of ending the moratorium on such gas premature. While we're still not ready to say whether hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is good or bad for the state, it makes sense to gather all the data before opening that door.
PITTSBURGH - Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. We have people's lives who are being blessed or adversely affected by this," said Bishop Thomas Bickerton of Pittsburgh, who leads more than 800 United Methodist congregations and 187,000 members in western Pennsylvania, where major drilling is taking place.
When U. S. Steel Corp. created its three-diamond Steelmark logo, it generated so much buzz that the Pittsburgh Steelers adopted it in the 1960s. Advertising and public relations campaigns, coupled with the widespread employment steel provided for generations, helped cement the industry's standing as a point of local pride, an integral part of Western Pennsylvania's identity despite its environmental drawbacks.
Wofford is director of the Shenandoah Valley Network of citizens groups working to preserve rural lands and communities and to strengthen the valley's rural economy. A dozen Shenandoah Valley residents and I went to Washington on July 8, where I served as a witness at a congressional oversight hearing. The focus was a U.S. Forest Service proposal to ban a controversial natural gas drilling technique -- horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing -- from more than 1 million acres of public land in Western Virginia.
Ron Hilliard came back from church one Sunday to find hundreds of plastic $5, $10, $20 and $100 bills hanging on his fence in Flower Mound, Texas, another message from townsfolk angry at him for signing a lucrative natural gas drilling lease for his suburban Dallas property. In Damascus, Pa., about 1,500 miles away, drilling advocate Marian Schweighofer awoke one morning to the word LORAX from the Dr. Seuss book about environmental destruction spray- painted on the road near her familys 712-acre farm. Hilliard and Schweighofer have never met, yet both are living with the nastiness and rancor erupting in communities nationwide over the volatile issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. This technique used with horizontal drilling allows rich stores of gas to be extracted from once ...
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