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We’re Crabby About Drilling
We're Crabby About Drilling is an advocacy group formed by citizens living on Oak Island (North Carolina), Oak Island, North Carolina, focused on preventing off-shore drilling and Exploration geophysics, seismic testing. Known locally as the "Oak Island Crabbies" the group is opposed to the federal government's proposed plan for ocean drilling and seismic blasting in the Cape Fear (headland), Cape Fear littoral as set forth in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Draft Proposed Program for 2019-2104. History In 2014, Kure Beach, North Carolina, a small town in New Hanover County, North Carolina, New Hanover County immediately north of Brunswick County, became one of the first municipalities to oppose off shore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. Since then more than 130 municipalities, six governors and an alliance representing over 41,000 businesses and 500,000 fishing families have united in their opposition to offshore oil and gas drilling and/or exploration in the Atlanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Island (North Carolina)
Oak Island is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina near the South Carolina border. A barrier island, it contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell (since 1949 home to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly) and the Oak Island Coast Guard Station which is co-located with the Oak Island Lighthouse. Almost 13 miles long, the island averages about one mile wide. Approximately 7000 people live on it year-round, a number which can balloon to over 40,000 during the summer Geography Roughly 30 miles south of Wilmington, North Carolina, Oak Island is the easternmost of the South Brunswick Islands formed in the late 1930s by the construction of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). Dredged from Southport, North Carolina at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, the ICW flows west through coastal sounds and marshes to the Little River in South Carolina. Both ends of Oak Island have extensive marshland, while its two major internal waterways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
