Oppose Seismic Surveys in the Atlantic

The Department of Interior is deciding whether to conduct seismic surveys in the Atlantic ocean from New Jersey to Florida to assess oil and gas resources. The proposed surveys would employ loud and continuous sound blasts that would cause major impacts to marine wildlife and the ecosystem.

Please ask the Secretary of the Interior to cancel seismic exploration off the Atlantic coast.

Seismic surveys would produce devastating impacts on marine mammals, sea turtles, fishes, and other marine life. The blasts from seismic airguns have been shown to interfere with the mating, feeding, communication, and migration activities of numerous species, including the endangered Right Whale (photo).

Furthermore, offshore drilling is inherently polluting and dangerous, and it will not solve our nation's energy needs. According to the Department of Energy, fully developing all of our recoverable offshore oil reserves would lower pump prices by only 3 cents. Such a tradeoff is not worth the risk to our coastal economies, including tourism, recreation, and commerical fishing, which generate billions of dollars in annual revenue on the Atlantic coast.

Please sign the petition to ask the Department to cancel plans for seismic exploration off the Atlantic coast.

I request that you cancel plans to conduct seismic surveys off the Mid- and South Atlantic coasts. Seismic airgun activity for oil and gas exploration has a huge environmental footprint and would produce significant impacts on marine mammals, sea turtles, fishes, and other marine life. According to the Department's own estimates, seismic exploration over the next eight years would injure up to 138,500 marine mammals and disrupt marine mammal feeding, calving, breeding, and other vital activities more than 13.5 million times. Airgun noise also affects fish behavior and fisheries on a broad scale, displacing commercial species of fish over thousands of square kilometers. The Department must protect marine resources in the Atlantic - and the coastal communities that depend on them - by canceling plans to conduct seismic surveys. Thank you.
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1773 Tue May 21 06:24:54 EDT 2013 Sue Nightingale
1772 Tue May 21 05:28:29 EDT 2013 claudia correia ot
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1770 Mon May 20 11:40:45 EDT 2013 Lori Vaccaro Bronx, NY
1769 Mon May 20 11:16:41 EDT 2013 Jennifer Palmer Lexington, GA
1768 Mon May 20 09:59:33 EDT 2013 Cecelia Samp IL
1767 Mon May 20 09:23:55 EDT 2013 courtney stefano New Rochelle, NY
1766 Mon May 20 08:27:06 EDT 2013 Julie Schampel McKeesport, PA
1765 Mon May 20 08:03:01 EDT 2013 c Buslot
1764 Mon May 20 06:15:09 EDT 2013 Anonymous
1763 Mon May 20 05:54:17 EDT 2013 John Repsch London, ot
1762 Mon May 20 05:54:14 EDT 2013 ruth howard cape town, ot
1761 Mon May 20 03:34:12 EDT 2013 Beate Ruchatz-Halmer Alfter, ot I' m from Germany, but also very concerned. We have to save the planet for our children!
1760 Mon May 20 03:05:25 EDT 2013 nina valecic NY
1759 Mon May 20 02:48:53 EDT 2013 ethel sussman south jamesport, NY
1758 Mon May 20 01:51:50 EDT 2013 Leslie Peretsky Englewood, CO
1757 Mon May 20 01:07:15 EDT 2013 Viviam Rincón
1756 Sun May 19 21:48:20 EDT 2013 Karen Kirschling CA
1755 Sun May 19 20:58:55 EDT 2013 Michele Allen West Newfield, ME
1754 Sun May 19 20:27:24 EDT 2013 Carol Yiu Flushing, NY
1753 Sun May 19 19:52:49 EDT 2013 Jim Steitz Gatlinburg, TN Scientific studies have shown that the airgun devices used by industry produce the loudest aquatic sound waves besides outright explosives, and can cripple the hearing and echolocation organs of marine More....
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1750 Sun May 19 14:51:52 EDT 2013 Christiane Schmitz Cologne,
1749 Sun May 19 14:20:34 EDT 2013 Laura Divenere Los Angeles, CA
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