Obama approves sonic cannon use off East Coast

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ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla.

The Eastern Seaboard is being opened to offshore oil and gas exploration for the first time in decades with the Obama administration's approval Friday of sonic cannons that can pinpoint energy deposits deep beneath the ocean floor.

The decision dismays environmentalists worried about the immediate impact of the sonic cannons, which shoot sound waves 100 times louder than a jet engine through waters shared by endangered whales and turtles, as well as the offshore drilling that now requires such sophisticated mapping technology as a first step. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management disclosed its final approval first to The Associated Press ahead of an announcement later Friday.

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More than 120,000 people or groups sent comments to the government, which held hearings and spent years developing these rules. The bureau's environmental impact study estimates that more than 138,000 sea creatures could be harmed, including nine of the 500 north Atlantic right whales remaining in the world.

Full article:
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/obama-approves-sonic-cannon-use-east-coast

[acme54321]

At some point I am fairly confident there will be rigs off of our coast.  The best scenario is that they don't find anything worth drilling.