Brunswick Environmental Action Team

BEAT was happy to be invited to the 2022 Oak Island Earth Day Festival, April 2022. Thank you Oak Island for allowing us to share ideas about how we can continue to work together to thrive while peacefully making use of the life sustaining energy that our Earth provides for us every day - To optimize our ongoing survival and a deeply shared happy and healthy existence.

BEAT received an email from: Melissa Edmonds <medmonds@selcnc.org> of the Southern Environmental Law Center on September 9, 2022 at 12:32:50 PM EDT. The subject of the email was Offshore Drilling Comment Opportunity. BEAT leadership would like to share this message with you here. The text that follows is the body of the message in its entirety.

Hi all,

I hope this note finds you well! You are receiving this email because you have previously been involved in SELC’s campaign to fight offshore drilling, by signing onto our comment letters to oppose drilling in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico. I am writing now to alert you of another important comment opportunity on the issue of offshore drilling in these regions.

SELC is currently preparing comments on the Biden administration’s Proposed Five Year Plan for offshore drilling, which removes all Atlantic Planning Areas from consideration, yet still proposes to hold lease sales in the Western and Central Gulf of Mexico. Comments are due Oct. 6. As usual, our comments will be focused on the Gulf and the Southeast; we plan to thank BOEM for listening to the voices of the East Coast by removing the Atlantic, and further urge no new leasing in the Gulf of Mexico because of the continued harm from offshore drilling on Gulf communities and natural resources and on climate change.

SELC supports responsible offshore wind development as a critically important piece in the necessary clean energy transition to address the climate crisis, but we do not support provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act that tie future offshore wind leasing to continued oil and gas leasing. We are planning to make this distinction in our comments, but please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns with this approach.

If you are potentially interested in signing on and have input as we draft, please let me know ASAP, as we are working on drafting the comments now. We will circulate a draft on Sept. 23, accept feedback through Sept. 28, and take final sign-ons through Oct. 5.

Thank you all for being valued partners in this important issue, we look forward to your continued support throughout this fight!

Melissa L. Edmonds (Whaling) (she/her)

Science & Policy Analyst

medmonds@selcnc.org

Southern Environmental Law Center

601 West Rosemary Street, Suite 220

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Office (919) 391-4099

Mobile (919) 623-5003

southernenvironment.org

Dear visitor, below is a message BEAT received from "Emily Donovan via ActionNetwork.org" <info@email.actionnetwork.org>

The subject of her message regards

URGENT ACTION REQUIRED:

Say: "No More Chemours!"

BEAT received this message on: September 10, 2022 at 12:36:12 PM EDT

Her message is shared here in its entiretity.

Friends,

It's time to mobilize like never before. Chemours just announced they want to EXPAND their toxic PFAS production in NC. We don’t feel they’ve earned this right–especially when they’ve failed to deliver on the most basic promises to our community.

We believe the majority of control measures taken, so far, are because Chemours was legally forced to comply via a 2019 consent order established by our friends at Cape Fear River Watch. However, it’s important to remember, consent orders are only as good as they are being enforced. Sadly, strong enforcement of the Chemours consent order has taken constant pressure from dedicated folks like you, who are determined to hold both DEQ and Chemours’ feet to the fire.

Here’s a quick summary of how Chemours has “helped” us:

Chemours has not earned the right to expand in NC and we are counting on you to help them get the message. Chemours is hosting a public information session at Leland Cultural Arts Center, Wednesday, September 21st from 5:00pm - 7:00pm. Click here to RSVP We’ll send you talking points in the next two weeks to help you feel prepared.

In the meantime, please share our event link on social media and with your fellow neighbors. Media will be present at this meeting, so it’s vital that we show a united front against Chemours. We cannot allow them to add another drop of their poison to our water.

With gratitude,

Emily Donovan, cofounder

Clean Cape Fear

Gullah Geechee in Brunswick County, NC - 2021

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE BEAT LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR the Brunswick County NAACP’s proposed Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Multi-Use Greenway/Blueway Trail, Brunswick County, North Carolina

FYI: An Informative PDF about PFAS as it Relates to Brunswick County in 2020 - by Eugene Rozenbaoum of LG Chem

https://e7c15df3-84ba-4acf-af91-88be79109bb4.usrfiles.com/ugd/e7c15d_a19abcf749f24faf8ffc19b7b12a3d64.pdf

BEAT Meeting Minutes

December 10th, 2018

Meeting called to order by Pete Key

In Attendance: Pete Key, Dwight Willis, Tom Goodwin, Neil Gilbert, Teddy Altreuder, Jennifer Swift, Randy Sturgill (Oceana)

Business:

We need to finalize the W-9 request from Oceana. (This was done today 12/13/18)
Create a Push for folks to attend the Dec. 17th County Commissioners meeting.
Need to call for members to email and call Rouzer over seismic
- Record how many times he’s been asked for a meeting and how many times he declines or ignores.
There was a letter signed by 90 congressmen that opposes offshore seismic. Rouzer was asked to sign it but he ignored all requests.
- Jones, Price, Butterfield, Adams all signed on for NC.
We need to blast out the news of the law suit filed in Charleston, SC on Tuesday.
- We need mainland support as well for share with any contact in Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville areas.
We need members to write and submit 200-word op-ed pieces to The Beacon, The State Port Pilot, Charlotte Observer, Durham News & Observer, The Durham Herald-Sun, Star News, Raleigh News & Observer.
- Might need to offer some ghost-written op-eds that allow folks to personalize.
Reach out to Beth Markesinko about how much their billboards were. Who to Contact?
Check with Papers mentioned above on ad pricing for Non-Profits.
Contact local Chambers of Commerce and show them the SC Small Business Chambers' Opposition announcement. Share with them the impacts Offshore Seismic and Drilling on Tourism. The Threat is real for 570,000 people employed in Tourism and $2.5 Billion in NC GDP.
Research Potential Movie Theaters to show Sonic Seas. Randy has the rights to show. Jan 24 or 31st potential dates at 2pm and 4pm.
- Amuzu in SPT, Surf Cinema in SPT, BEMC, BCC
Randy will share “3 Things You Can Do” links for us to share in FB.

Next Meeting:

Date | time: Jan. 28th, 6:00pm BEMC

Pete Key

BEAT President