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  Commentary:
Park’s administrative history makes a case for Congressional
action on accessThe National Park Service released an administrative history of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on Sept. 3. This document reviews the promises, the legislation, the politics, and the administrative policies that have put us where we are today in our relationship with The National Park Service, various user groups, the courts, and Congress. It clearly shows that Congress is the body that needs to review the legislation passed and take action to see that our National Seashore Recreational Areas are administered for the purposes for which they were created. Read more....   Guest Column: The questions to ask about the Pamlico wind-energy projectThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gearing up for an Environmental Impact Statement on Duke Energy Carolina’s proposal for a demonstration wind energy project that would place up to three power-generating wind turbines in the Pamlico Sound. The project is proposed to be located within a three-square-mile area located about 7.3 miles west of Avon and 9.1 miles north of Frisco. In this column, long-time Hatteras resident goes over some of the pros and cons of wind energy and asks some of the questions we will want answers to. ....Read more  Guest Column: Opening up federal waters to striped bass fishermen would provide an economic boost to the stateIn North Carolina, we don't want a handout or a stimulus package. Opening the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to commercial, charter boat, and recreational fishermen who want to catch striped bass will provide the much-needed economic boost our region needs. ....Read more  Guest Column: A high stakes game is underway to allot fisheries resourcesJenga is a game of skill and thought. The players assemble a tower 18 stories tall, using rectangular, wooden blocks. The players then begin to remove blocks from the tower’s base and replace them on top of the tower. Eventually the removing or replacing of a block will lead to the collapse of the tower. Let’s make the tower out of the blocks that form Hatteras and Ocracoke islands’ economy, and we will see how many blocks we can remove before the tower crumples. Now, in this game any block that is removed must be replaced by a whole new block on top. This will represent the replacing of one economic base with a whole new economic concept. The stakes in this game of Jenga are worth millions upon millions of dollars, and the livelihoods of thousands of people. ....Read more  Guest Column: Is there a National Oceans Council in our future and is it a threat to the fishing community?Some recent reports on the Internet reveal a threat far worse than the consent degree and the potential damage of the final rule on ORVs on the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The Obama administration put together the Oceans Policy Task Force in June and charged it with formulating a new federal agency -- The National Oceans Council. The new agency being forged by this task force may be one of the largest regulatory hammers ever devised by the federal government. If this agency comes to be and gets its way, the sportfishing community will likely be the first casualty. ....Read more  Guest
Column: Facts you need to know about how coastal residents have fared
in the insurance battle.Tom Thompson, who is president of NC 20, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to defending the 20 coastal counties from regulatory and legislative abuse on insurance issues, writes about how we coastal residents fared in this year’s session of the North Carolina General Assembly. ....Read more |
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