By Maria Mooney Source: Ecorazzi

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Recommendations outlined Thursday in an environmental report by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gave the oil industry the ability to look for new deposits in the Atlantic Ocean off the the East Coast – from Virginia down to Florida. But this new possibility for energy production will not come without its consequences.

Tommy Beaudreau, the director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, said, “The currently available seismic information from this area is decades old and was developed using technologies that are obsolete.” To survey the underwater landscape for possible drilling zones, intense underwater seismic air gun blasts would have to be used, threatening marine life, specifically endangered whales and dolphins.

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