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Executive Summary

Offshore drilling involves far more than just drilling a well: day-to-day coastal drilling disrupts adjacent ecosystems and communities, and likely spills associated with such drilling causes irreversible impacts on marine and terrestrial life. In 1981, congress realized these risks and decided to adopt the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) moratorium in order to ensure our coastal future’s protection. Recently, however, political actors have called for a lift of the nearly three decade year-old moratorium, but a review of the far-reaching impacts drilling would have on Georgia’s costal communities economically and environmentally when alternatives for oil exist seem shortsighted.