Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., announced Thursday that he has asked the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, to hold a public meeting in Dare County regarding the federal government’s proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2019-2024. His request to BOEM is on the heels of a similar request made […]
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Steve Murphey will serve as the new director for the Division of Marine Fisheries or DMF, effective immediately, a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality confirmed Thursday. John A. Nicholson, DEQ chief deputy secretary, explained Wednesday in an email to DEQ employees that Murphey would assume the role of director. DEQ provided […]
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Despite strong opposition from East Coast governors, several dozen lawmakers and the Defense Department, the Department of the Interior Thursday released its proposed five-year draft plan to open up most U.S. outer continental-shelf waters, including off the North Carolina coast and some protected areas, to oil and gas exploration and drilling. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke […]
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Four companies have been asked to submit additional information about proposed seismic surveying for offshore oil and gas resource development because the original proposals did not consider the latest scientific studies on the harmful impacts to marine life, the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management announced Friday. According to a press release from DCM, the […]
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State Launches Tool to Track Disaster Work Coastal Review Online North Carolina has added a new tool to help the state and citizens track disaster recovery efforts as communities across eastern North Carolina continue to recover from Hurricane Matthew, The North Carolina Department of Information Technology announced Tuesday. Rebuild.nc.gov, a new online resource built by […]
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Flanked Thursday by mayors of a half-dozen eastern North Carolina communities, Gov. Roy Cooper cited the threat to the “robust coastal economy” from proposed offshore drilling and seismic exploration for oil and natural gas off the state’s coast and pledged to lead the renewed fight against it. During an appearance at Fort Macon State Park, […]
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When visitors spend time on North Carolina’s coast, they also spend money. Renting lodging, dining locally, recreating, camping and fishing are among the services tourists pay for to experience the state’s coastline. The local spending creates jobs and economic opportunities directly in the surrounding communities, and indirectly as employees spend their income. National parks and […]
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Lights out, darkness settling in, Robert Carmichael’s eyes adjusted to the site before him at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The German submarine U-576 was laying on its side about 700 feet below the water’s surface where it sank in 1942 after being pummeled by depth charges dropped by U.S. Navy air crews and […]
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To reach the Buxton cemetery, take U.S. 64 east to the ocean at Nags Head, then travel 48 miles south on N.C. 12. Follow signs for Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Drive past the lighthouse parking lot on Lighthouse Road, which then curves to the left. Once the road straightens you’ll see a little brown sign and […]
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Almost anyone who’s thrown a hook in the water to catch a fish in a quiet atmosphere probably knows intuitively that loud noises spook them: you don’t scream at fish to bite, after all, you wait patiently. But intuition isn’t science, and seismic airguns don’t make just any loud noise, so when University of North […]
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