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CRC Limits Sea-Level Rise Study to 30 Years
ATLANTIC BEACH – The state’s Coastal Resources Commission took the first tenuous steps along a seemingly old but tortuous path, but its new chairman charted a different course this time, one that he...
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CRC Chairman Avoids Climate Dust Up
MOREHEAD CITY – The chairman of the state’s commission that sets coastal development policy deftly defused what could have been the next explosive issue in the politically charged sea-level rise debate...
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No Sand on Shack, Park Says
ATLANTIC BEACH — After listening to the public and consulting the experts, the superintendent of Cape Lookout National Seashore decided to back away from his controversial request that dredged sand be...
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Coastal Sketch: John Runkle
John Runkle with his wife, Nancy. EMERALD ISLE — When he attended that meeting at the aquarium in Pine Knoll Shores all those years ago, John Runkle had no idea that he was making a long-term...
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Ca’e Bankers
A banner at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center welcomes descendants of the hardy fishing families who once lived on what is now Shackleford Banks in the Cape Lookout National...
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Storms, Whales and Refugees
Last of two parts Janice Ray Lewis Ditto, second from left, talks about growing up in the Promise Land at a reunion of descendants of Shackleford Banks fishing families. Photo: Core Sound Waterfowl...
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Second Annual Christmas Gift Guide
From an island getaway overlooking Bogue Inlet to killer stand-up paddleboards and fishing kayaks, our staff has come up with an array of suggestions for the N.C. Coastal Federation’s second Coastal...
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Group Threatens Legal Action to Protect Wetlands
MERRITT — A coastal environmental group is planning to notify two federal agencies today that it intends to sue them for not enforcing federal law to protect more than 250 acres of wetlands near this...
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Sea-Level Rise Redux
BEAUFORT – The state’s Coastal Resources Commission gathered on an island near here Wednesday to talk about the latest report from its science advisers on sea-level rise along the N.C. coast. There...
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Feds Move Closer to Offshore Wind in N.C.
The federal government yesterday took the next significant step toward developing commercial wind energy off the N.C. coast by releasing an environmental assessment that supports the potential lease...
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Feds Announce Atlantic Drilling Plan
The Obama Administration did the expected yesterday and announced plans to potentially open portions of the Atlantic coast, including offshore North Carolina, to oil and natural gas drilling for the...
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Federation Set to Launch Two Websites
The website for Coastal Review Online is organized like a newspaper site. We here at Coastal Review Online are moving to a new digital home. Come Monday, you’ll find us at a new address:...
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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Drilling
WILMINGTON – The first N.C. skirmish in what will certainly be a decades-long battle over offshore drilling played out in this old port city Tuesday. Proponents of drilling marshaled their forces in an...
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Todd Miller Wins Prestigious Award
The founder and executive director of the N.C. Coastal Federation has won a prestigious Peter Benchley Ocean Award for his lifelong work in protecting and restoring the natural resources of the N.C....
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State Fines Duke Energy $25 Million
RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday levied the largest environmental fine in state history against Duke Energy for groundwater contamination from coal ash ponds...
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Editor’s Desk: ‘Coastoons’ Come to CRO
Coastal Review Online, starting today, will begin running a new feature at the bottom of our front page called “Coastoons” by Bob Eckstein, an award-winning cartoonist for the New Yorker, The New York...
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Offshore Drilling Series Begins
First of a series For the first time in almost three decades, the federal government is considering opening up the Atlantic Ocean off the N.C. coast to oil and natural gas drilling. The first of the...
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A Very Brief History of Offshore Drilling
1896: Offshore drilling for oil began off the coast of Summerfield, Calif., just south of Santa Barbara. Rows of narrow wooden piers that looked like boardwalks extended up to 1,350 feet from the...
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Dashed Hopes and Dry Holes
The history of oil drilling off the East Coast and in North Carolina has been one of dashed hopes and dry holes. Other Stories A Look Back at the Mobil Fight A Brief History of Offshore Drilling Ten...
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A Look Back at the Mobil Fight
Second in a series MANTEO – Yogi Berra came to mind as I sat among the old activists, who had gathered one night recently to plan for a fight they thought they had won almost three decades ago....
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