“For years I have expressed significant concerns about offshore drilling in the Arctic. The federal administration should not enable new oil and gas drilling in these untouched areas that host such a fragile environment.”Jay Inslee, Governor, Washington State, March 31, 2015
“No future extraction [on public lands]. I agree with that.” Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nominee for President,
Feb. 4, 2016
Who owns the West? Increasingly, it’s the US Federal Government, with the help of compliant state executives, and if you don’t mind, they’d prefer you got off their lawn.
Federal lands account for 24 percent of the country’s resource production. According to the Chamber of Commerce paper, a ban on future energy production …MORE
Two German shipping companies that owned and operated the motor vessel Nils B pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego on Oct. 25 to one felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships for failing to accurately maintain an oil record book…(Read full article)
Seaspan Receives Hybrid LNG-Battery Ferry
By Mark Edward Nero
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Seaspan Ferries has taken delivery of Seaspan Swift, the first of five LNG-battery hybrid ferries from Turkish shipyard Sedef…(Read full article)
US Commerce Dept. Signs Supply Chain Partnership
By Mark Edward Nero
A strategic partnership with the USC Marshall Center for Global Supply Chain Management aimed at improving the global competitiveness of the nation’s supply chains was signed by US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker in Los Angeles on Oct. 14…. (Read full article)
Foss Maritime VP Appointed to Obama Administration Post
By Mark Edward Nero
Foss Maritime VP of HSQE & External Affairs Susan Hayman has been nominated to the United States Merchant Marine Academy’s Board of Visitors by President Barack Obama.. (Read full article)
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