President Obama Denies All Pending Permits for Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean - Oceana USA

Victory | January 6, 2017

President Obama Denies All Pending Permits for Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean

The Obama administration formally denies all pending permits to conduct seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean. Seismic airgun blasting, an extremely loud and dangerous process used to search for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean’s surface, was originally proposed in an area twice the size of California, stretching from Delaware to Florida.