Offshore Blasting

Tuesday, 05 December 2023

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Eco-Camouflage and the Fossil Fuel Lobby: The War against Wind Farms

Dissident Voice 23 Nov 2023

a link between whale mortality and offshore wind farms ... the words, “Stop Port Stephens Offshore Wind Farms” ... As, it would seem, those figures in eco-camouflage such as Dutton and Canavan, who continue to coddle fossil fuel companies intent on seismic blasting and offshore drilling.

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Right-wing figures are using the cancellation of two offshore wind projects to make misleading claims ...

Media Matters 14 Nov 2023

While military sonar and seismic blasting used for oil and gas exploration can harm whales, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said that sound produced by high-resolution geophysical surveys used by offshore wind energy companies “produce much smaller impact ...

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Coastal city boosts development path with space launches

Beijing News 08 Nov 2023

© Provided by Xinhua. by Xinhua writer Yuan Quan. HAIYANG, Shandong, Nov ... On June 5, 2019, a Long March rocket blasted off from a mobile offshore platform at Haiyang Port, marking China's first space launch at sea ... He said flexible positioning of the offshore launch site ensures spent rocket stages fall into the sea rather than on land ... ....

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China Focus: Coastal city boosts development path with space launches

China.dot.org 08 Nov 2023

by Xinhua writer Yuan Quan. HAIYANG, Shandong, Nov ... On June 5, 2019, a Long March rocket blasted off from a mobile offshore platform at Haiyang Port, marking China's first space launch at sea ... He said flexible positioning of the offshore launch site ensures spent rocket stages fall into the sea rather than on land ... Enditem. .

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Critics: Biden’s hydrogen initiative could become next Green Energy Boondoggle

The Liberty Beacon 06 Nov 2023

Other troubled green initiatives Biden has been rolling out include the development of offshore wind energy and the widespread adoption of electric vehicles ... and offshore wind development ... Oil industry blasts double standard as failing offshore wind is offered more public funding.

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Santos's Barossa Gas Pipeline Laying Delayed by Australian Court -- Update

Market Watch 02 Nov 2023

In September, a judge invalidated the offshore-energy regulator's approval for Woodside Energy to conduct blasting in a seismic survey at a big natural-gas field off Western Australia. Santos on Thursday said that it had complied with offshore-energy regulator Nopsema's requirements related to impacts on underwater cultural heritage places ... .

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Ørsted pulls plug on New Jersey offshore wind projects

Longview News-Journal 01 Nov 2023

(The Center Square) — New Jersey's leaders are blasting a decision by a Danish energy company to back away from two major offshore wind projects off the state's coastline ... Phil Murphy's push to put the coastal state at the forefront of the nation's nascent offshore wind industry.

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The right is wrong about off-shore wind. Climate change and pollution are killing whales

Burlington County Times 30 Oct 2023

the claim that offshore wind development is responsible for whale deaths is categorically false ... But facts matter, folks, including the fact that seismic blasting and Navy sonar are far more intense and intrusive than offshore wind surveys, which only travel a short distance.

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Ukraine Claims Strike on Russian Patrol Ship off Sevastopol

The Maritime Executive 17 Oct 2023

Ukraine's military intelligence agency and navy claim to have successfully struck a Russian patrol ship near the occupied port of Sevastopol ... ***UPDATE***. ???? 1/n ... The Ukrainian claim could not be immediately confirmed, but Sevastopol residents told local news outlet Crimean Wind that they heard a blast offshore at about 1000 hours on Wednesday ... 13.

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Mark McGowan phone call allegation puts fossil fuel influence in WA under new spotlight

The Observer 08 Oct 2023

Carmen Lawrence, another former Labor premier, said McGowan’s alleged behaviour four years ago, if true, was “certainly improper”, “ethically questionable” and “illustrated the power that fossil fuels have to influence the government” in the state. Woodside LNG ... Woodside plan for seismic blasting at Scarborough offshore gas field blocked by court ... ... .

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Outrage as Indigenous activist blocks blasting plan for massive gas project on her country: 'Our ...

The Daily Mail 29 Sep 2023

An Indigenous activist has successfully blocked offshore seismic blasting for a $12billion gas project ... Ms Cooper in August filed the court motion arguing the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) made an error in approving Woodside's ...

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Woodside seismic blasting approval scrapped by Australia’s Federal Court

Offshore Technology 29 Sep 2023

Approval for Woodside Energy’s plans to undertake seismic blasting in a whale habitat offshore Western Australia was thrown out of the country’s Federal Court on Thursday, ending a legal battle between an indigenous woman and the gas major.

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Woodside plan for seismic blasting at Scarborough offshore gas field blocked by court

The Guardian 28 Sep 2023

Mardudhunera woman Raelene Cooper had applied for a judicial review of a decision by the offshore petroleum regulator to allow Woodside to start seismic blasting ...

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Woodside's Seismic Survey Plan for Scarborough Project Blocked by Australian Court

Market Watch 28 Sep 2023

SYDNEY--Woodside Energy's plan to conduct a seismic survey at a big natural-gas field offshore Western Australia has run into trouble after a judge on Thursday invalidated the offshore-energy regulator's approval for blasting to take place.

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Seismic blasting for gas project threatens whales off Australia’s coast, activists say

CNN 27 Sep 2023

Australia’s offshore oil and gas regulator, NOPSEMA, approved the blasting in July, despite acknowledging that Woodside may not have identified all Indigenous people in need of consultation on the seismic blasting plans, or given them adequate time to be consulted.