About Us
BAPPC members represent over 8,100 businesses and growing
The Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast (BAPPC) is a coalition of over 8,100 businesses in California, Oregon, and Washington. We are a leading business voice opposing the expansion and exploration of offshore oil & gas development. We work with local, regional, and national stakeholders to lobby for permanent protections from offshore drilling.
Our membership consists of retailers, major action sports & outdoor brands, hoteliers, restauranteurs, Realtor associations, fishing organizations, Chambers of Commerce and Visitors Bureaus, “mom & pop” shops, and various tourism & recreation-based businesses. We all believe offshore oil & gas development is bad for business.
We have discovered that government at all levels listens to the business voice.
Join us (it's FREE!) and let your voice be heard.
Member Testimonials
Why more businesses are taking a stand against offshore drilling across Pacific waters.
"The surfing industry, along with other U.S. industries and wildlife that would be negatively impacted by expanded offshore drilling, need reassurances that we won't be dealing with oil spills in the future. The only way to guarantee that is to scrap the federal offshore drilling program.”
--Paul Naude, Vissla Founder and President of the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association, which represents more than 300 surf industry suppliers
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“The pattern over the past 52 years is clear - oil spills have been taking place in San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Huntington Beach - validating that where we drill, we spill. The recent spill is another unfortunate wake up call that we need to move towards clean energy to avoid ecological and economic disasters like what is happening along Orange County’s vibrant coastal region.”
--Vipe Desai, SIMA Executive Director and Founder of BAPPC
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“My clients depend on rental income from beach properties for their livelihoods and received bulk cancellations immediately following the HB oil spill going out for months. Property owners throughout coastal Orange County had their main source of recreation completely shut down. It’s devastating to their pocketbooks, their property values, and their physical and emotional health.”
--Grant Bixby, Principal Broker, Bixby Residential Group @ COMPASS
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"I've seen a dramatic cut to my surfboard rentals since the oil spill and that will continue for weeks, maybe months. And it's not just the ocean-related businesses here in Newport that are suffering but all tourism-related businesses as well.”
--Peter Belden, Owner, The Board Club
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“The nightmare playing out in real time in Orange County and surrounding coastal counties shows once again that the risks to our coastal economies from offshore drilling aren’t worth the rewards. Offshore drilling in the Pacific produces one-tenth of 1 percent of the nation’s oil – but tourism, fishing and the rest of California’s ocean economy produces $54 billion and supports 654,000 jobs."
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--Bob Keefe, Executive Director of the national, nonpartisan business group E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), which has than 11,000 members and supporters, including more than 2,500 in California
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