{"id":10617,"date":"2018-03-01T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T18:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2018-03-01T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T18:20:59","slug":"action-alert-oppose-offshore-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/action-alert-oppose-offshore-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert: Oppose Offshore Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Department of the Interior recently made a decision to expand offshore oil and gas leasing to encompass around 90% of US coastlines. This means that the coast off of New England, could now be opened up to drilling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This decision could have severe impacts on the environment, and you can help stop this from happening. The deadline to submit comments<\/a> to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is March 9.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Jennifer Childs<\/p><\/div>\n

Impact of Offshore Drilling<\/h3>\n

The exploration, development, and production of oil and gas off the Massachusetts Outer Continental Shelf would have severe impacts on fisheries, wildlife habitat, and geological resources.<\/p>\n

Offshore drilling could threaten areas like Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, which provides feeding grounds for species like the endangered humpback whale and Kemp\u2019s ridley sea turtle.<\/p>\n

It also poses a risk to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument, home to four underwater, extinct volcanoes, which feature thousand-year-old corals found nowhere else on earth.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts and all of New England depend on a thriving coastal and ocean economy \u2013 which brings in $17.5 billion annually to the region\u2019s \u2013 and that success in turn depends on healthy coastal and ocean ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Let BOEM know that we can\u2019t afford to place our invaluable natural spaces at risk<\/strong> by submitting comments online today<\/a>. You can\u00a0read the comments Mass Audubon submitted<\/a> and learn more about the issue of off-shore drilling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thank you for taking this action to protect the nature of Massachusetts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Department of the Interior recently made a decision to expand offshore oil and gas leasing to encompass around 90% of US coastlines. This means that the coast off of New England, could now be opened up to drilling. This decision could have severe impacts on the environment, and you can help stop this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/03\/Jennifer_Childs600.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-2Lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17539,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/news-massachusetts-releases-historic-request-for-offshore-wind-proposals\/","url_meta":{"origin":10617,"position":0},"title":"News: Massachusetts Releases Historic Request for\u00a0Offshore Wind Proposals","author":"Kaylin D.","date":"May 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Exciting news: Massachusetts has just requested proposals for new offshore wind turbine developments that could produce up to 25% of our state\u2019s electricity. 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