NPG Readers: Please Comment on OCS before September 26, 2011 Comment in support of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Chukchi Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193, against further delay and ‘affirming Lease Sale 193″. Send Comments to:
COMMENTS: Final SEIS, Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193
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NPG Readers: Please Comment on EPA O&G Emissions Regs. Before October 24, 2011 send comments re: unnecessary natural gas emissions rules that will further slow down America’s economy and employment without significant benefit. Federal Register notice with filing instructions.
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Comment on EPA release, below: Arctic exploration companies still face a gauntlet of Obama administrative agency permit approvals in order to mobilize for the 2012 summer season. Shell’s Alaska manager, Pete Slaiby (NGP Photo, 9-8-11), told audiences recently that the company would make its decision to ‘go or no go’ by mid October. The EPA’s multi-year delay of this OCS air quality permit complicated by lawsuits has already cost the Lessee (Shell) hundreds of millions as it prepared for earlier approvals and summer exploration seasons, then had to demobilize fleets of exploration assets when various permits were not forthcoming. Alaskans who have witnessed the many ways interactive Obama administration agencies can act to ‘go-no go’ projects will not be comforted by this ‘final permit approval’. After all, the agency is now asking for ‘petitions of review‘ to the ‘final’ decision and sister agencies can still stop America’s greatest current domestic energy exploration effort dead in its tracks. Remember ‘the weakest link’? Companies must sometimes think they are in a strange, opaque game show run by malicious children who take pleasure in saying, “go, no go” at times and in ways seemingly designed to bring America’s domestic energy wealth and job production to a tragic and unnecessary end as caring citizens watch in horror. We hope our suspicions are badly placed and that the governmental-enviroextremist cabal characterizing this Administration relents in the face of a national election long enough to let Arctic exploration thrive along with an improved job and economic recovery trend. After all, they have robbed us of an innocent assumption that they value due process and they have given us much reason to be suspicious of their motives and moves. -dh
(EPA Release From Seattle – Sept. 19, 2011) Today, EPA Region 10 issued final air quality permits to Shell for oil and gas exploration drilling in the Alaska Arctic. The permits will allow Shell to operate the Discoverer drill ship and a support fleet of icebreakers, oil spill response vessels, and supply ships for up to 120 days each year in the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea Outer Continental Shelf starting in 2012.
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