CRE Testifies at NOAA Alaska Hearings on Arctic EIS

Williiam Kelly, CRE’s  Western Representative, testified at NOAA’s scoping hearing for the Arctic EIS. His testimony is appended below.

Comments include:

l. No need to begin a new EIS, simply supplement the  existing EIS.

2. MMS should serve as a co-chair of the drafting committe along side NOAA

3.  The “new” scientific information identified by NOAA in the Federal Register notice should be public.

CRE welcomes public comments on its  presentation, by providing comments using the link in the upper left hand column of this article.

Comments on the Notice of Intent to Prepare

an Environmental  Impact Statement on the

 Effects of Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic Ocean

(75 Fed. Reg. 6175, Feb. 8, 2010)

At the Public Scoping Hearing in Anchorage, Alaska

March 23, 2010