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Obama Withdraws Plan for Atlantic Coast Offshore Drilling

March 15, 2016 by chris

No drilling off North Carolina’s coast… It’s time to celebrate!

NCIPL recently presented a statement opposing offshore oil drilling unanimously approved by the NC Council of Churches Governing Board.

As a faith based organization we are called by God to preserve and respect the earth. As Governing Board members of the NC Council of Churches, we represent hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians as we take a moral stand against opening North Carolina’s coast to offshore oil and gas drilling.  Read full statement here

NCIPL brought the Council’s statement to the attention of Governor Pat McCrory and Donald Van derVaart, head of the NC Department of Environmental Quality, with the notice that the statement had been sent to the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Our faithful acts of have helped make a difference!

offshoredrilling cancelledObama’s announcement today of the cancellation of plans to offer leases for offshore oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic coincided with the release of the Administration’s Proposed Five Year Program for offshore oil and gas, which determines the areas for which lease sales will be held. Last year, the Administration initially proposed opening a huge area off the coast of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in its draft proposed program released in January 2015.

Click here to thank the President: http://bit.ly/AtlanticOffshoreDrillingCancelled

In response to today’s announcement, Chris Carnevale, Coastal Climate and Energy Manager for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, made this statement:

The voices of the people have spoken louder than the influence of Big Oil, and this decision shows that the White House sincerely listened to local voices along our coast. Over the past two years, more than 100 local governments, 100 members of Congress, 1,000 small businesses and hundreds of thousands of people have voiced a bi-partisan call to protect our quality of life and booming tourism economy, rather than risk these assets with the impacts of offshore drilling. Our focus should now be on developing responsible offshore energy solutions compatible with our coastal resources, such as offshore wind energy. Read full blog here

Please take a moment to say “THANK YOU” to President Obama
for standing with citizens and protecting the coast!
http://bit.ly/AtlanticOffshoreDrillingCancelled

 

 

 

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